After the Longines “school watch” tourbillon pocket replica watches for sale passed at Iconeek without a bid, we have just one result to recap. The Heuer Carrera ref. 2447 NST up for auction at Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers in Cheshire, England, ended up selling for 8,800 GBP before fees. For a bit of a project fake watches online CA in need of a crystal tension ring and crown, that number feels spot-on.
And here are this week’s picks!
1990s Cartier Santos Dumont Ref. 1575 Replica Watches in Platinum ‘Pre-CPCP’
The Santos Dumont is quickly rising up my rankings of cheap replica Cartier watches. The modern iteration is the best “standard” catalog men’s watch Cartier makes, and these neo-vintage executions are one of the more accessible ways to add a truly heritage-inspired and not super upsized Cartier to your collection. The reference 1575 is essentially the same watch as the ref. 96054, which came before it in the 1980s, was a lightly updated version of the ref. 78097, a part of the 1973 Louis Cartier Collection. I say all this not only to bore my audience with reference numbers but also to point out that this model has a direct lineage to true “vintage” Cartier. The Louis Cartier Collection was the first fully fleshed-out watch catalog at Cartier and was inspired by all of the best Swiss copy watches made up until that point. Long story short, the throughline from the first Santos in 1904 to the 1575 we see here is fairly direct.
This is where neo-vintage top replica watches CA shine when the 1980s and 1990s technology and build quality are applied to great designs from decades previous, where the idea of everyday wear is not quite as realistic in today’s world. I would love to daily a 1910s Cartier Santos, but that’s not really smart to do. The 1575 offers much of the same look with stout build quality.
Finding this Swiss made replica watches in platinum is no easy feat. You can dig up a few via listing sites like Chrono24, but typically, the asking prices are a bit inflated, up into the low to mid-20s. When most dealers get this watch in, their eyes light up because it is gorgeous and quite rare, but I find anything above 20k for this watch to be a bit rich. It’s great, don’t get me wrong, but ultimately, it is on the small side and, therefore, has somewhat of a thin market.
As a “Pre-CPCP” variant, this particular one dates prior to 1998 when the Collection Privée Cartier Paris officially started. A quick and easy tell is the lack of “Paris” on the dial; this one is simply signed with “Cartier” at 12 o’clock. The luxury China super clone watches is otherwise identical to the CPCP variant that came later, both powered by the high-end-for-Cartier, F. Piguet base, caliber 21.
The seller, Mike Nouveau, has listed this Cartier on his new website/app, Pushers.io, and is asking a reasonable $17,000.
1970s Omega Constellation Fake Watches with Breguet Numerals
I promised an eBay pick to celebrate my return to the platform, and here it is. This 1970s Omega Constellation is, like the Cyma, also chronometer rated, but that’s less important here as by the 1970s, Omega was sending most, if not all, of their many Constellations to be certified. In this era, Omega made a lot of 1:1 online Omega replica watches and, in particular, a lot of different variants of the Constellation. Building on the brand cache of its first Constellation in 1952, Omega aggressively built out the model’s offering over the next few decades. By the 1970s, the Constellation was less a specific model with a gold case and “pie-pan” dial but more a signifier that the watch you are looking at was a premium time-only Omega offering.
So, while this one is in a stainless steel case, you get a little bit of extra sauce with an eggshell white dial and Breguet numerals. This style of numerals is not something Omega did a ton of back in the day, and they’re quite hard to find on Constellations. Thinking back to my days on the Hodinkee Shop Vintage Team, I remember a few Breguet-numeraled vintage AAA Omega fake watches site crossing my desk, but typically, they were lower-quality, more “workhorse” Omega models like this one.
An eBay seller out of Homewood, Illinois (a town over from my hometown, by the way), has put this copy Omega watches shop Canada up for auction, ending Sunday, December 15, at 1:04 PM ET. At the time of publishing, there are no bids at the opening price of $500.