How to Spot Fake Designer Luxury Watches: Bulova Wrist Watch and More

Replica watches aren't hard to find. A simple internet search can yields hundreds, even thousands of results. Additionally, if you happen to be in Chinatown in Manhattan, you'll often be borderline-accosted by salesmen forcing their "authentic" Concord Ladies watches and Bulova wrist watch products on you for shockingly-low double-digit prices. While a street-vendor peddling watches is a lock to be selling fakes, it's often times not so easy to decipher when a luxury wristwatch is authentic or not.

There are some companies that advertise the idea that their watches are fake. They're attempting to build a market off the idea that nobody will know the watch you're wearing is fake, that replicas can last just as long as authentic, and that the working nature of both kinds of watch are basically the same. However, there is a significant difference between intentionally buying a replica, and being duped into buying a replica.

Here are some tips to help you spot fake designer watches.

Check the weight of the watch. The expensive materials used on luxury designer watches are incredibly heavier that the materials sued on fakes. If a watch feels even slightly on the lighter side, it typically means the materials are inconsistent, and your watch is likely a fake.

Another clever trick to use is dropping a splash of water on the face of the clock. If the water smears, it's typically a fake. Sapphire glass is used on a majority of luxury timepieces, such as the Rolex or Concord Mariner Watch. This glass is waterproof, therefore water dropped on the face should bead, a typical sign of authenticity.

While this trick won't always work, a heavy majority of designer watches are made so that a wearer won't hear the ticking, even if they hold the watch up to their ear. So hold the watch up to your ear! If you can hear that second-dby-second ticking, you've got yourself a fake.

Internet bidding sites like eBay have presented a whole new forum for fake watch sellers. Anytime you're ordering something off the internet it's easy to get fooled. When buying a watch on eBay, make sure to question the seller. A perfect starting point is asking if the product comes with the proper paperwork. Any seller who responds with non-definite answers is typically not someone you want to conduct business with.

And the most basic tip off when discovering fake luxury watches is that if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. This isn't to say good deals aren't out there. But hey, a 14KT Gold Mens Bulova wrist watch costs over $2,000. What crazy kind of cost-reduction strategy would have to be enacted to get the price of a two-thousand-dollar watch into the double digits?

There is only one: the watch would have to be fake.