1977 UK 1:1 Fake Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Ref. 1530

When I was working in a retail watch shop, a question I got more than once was, “Rolexes don’t tick, right?” and it took me a while to come up with what I thought was a satisfactory answer. The best I could come up with was: “no, modern Rolex fake watches online do not tick.” As enthusiasts, we know that while best 1:1 replica Rolex made several different models that did in fact tick over the years, but I wasn’t about to drag unexpecting shoppers through a history of the Tru-Beat and Oysterquartz. Every once and a little while someone would volunteer to listen to my rants, and I would hope that their eyes wouldn’t glaze over.

That rant was what I thought I was going to share until I took a closer look at the watch we have today. The legend told about the cheap fake Rolex Oyster Perpetual Ref. 1530 is that the Crown had started development of the Beta 21 quartz movement, and wanted to put this movement in a new case. However, they’d finished designing the case before the movement could be completed to their satisfaction, so they decided to load up their new case with their AAA copy Rolex Datejust movement and make some replica rolex watches in the meantime.Given high quality fake Rolex‘s tight-lipped nature we’ll likely never know if this is the truth or just watch nerd apocrypha. This story does seem all the more likely given the very short (two-ish year) production run of the 1530 and after 1977 we only see this case fitted with quartz movements. Check out the most misleading Swiss movement replica Rolex right here.

Next up was this ref. 6098 that sold at Phillips for CHF151,200. This particular 1:1 fake Rolex UK belonged to a fella named Norman Günter Dyhrenfurth, who was part of that Swiss expedition to Mount Everest in 1952, the one that came soooo close to reaching the peak but stopped about 1,000 meters short, blazing a trail for the next year’s ascent. (The following year, the British expedition with Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary would make it to the top.) Turns out, Swiss made replica Rolex covered its bases, sponsoring a number of Swiss and British expeditions, providing each of the mountaineers a watch that was supposed to be returned after the expedition. All the guys on the 1952 Swiss expedition were even from Geneva – imagine how badly high end copy Rolex must’ve wanted its hometown team to make it to the top. Guys like Dyhrenfurth were supposed to give their watches back to Rolex replica for sale after the expedition. But whoops, he forgot, and 70 years later we’ve got its story to tell.