James Dowling has worked, and played, with perfect Rolex replica watches for more than 35 years. He was a founder and one-time editor-in-chief of the respected watch forum Timezone and monitor of its Rolex forum.
He is the co-author, alongside Jeffrey Hess, of The Best of Time Rolex Wristwatches: An Unauthorized History.
Today Mr Dowling has one of the most enviable UK AAA Rolex fake watches collections in the world — a collection that is constantly evolving.
Replica Rolex Oyster Watches cushion case
Rolex is perhaps the single most important watch brand in history. I would say that all modern watches owe a good part of their existence to high quality replica Rolex watches because of the three things that Hans Wilsdorf focused on.
The one thing Wilsdorf wanted to do was to make the wristwatch ubiquitous and he knew that to do that he needed to address the holy trinity of watchmaking.
First, accuracy, second self-winding, and finally waterproofing. If you look at brands today, almost every cheap Rolex copy watches is either self-winding or waterproof, and often both.
The Oyster was the first watch that you could wear and not have to think about it.
Made almost a century ago, it is still the ultimate best Rolex replica watches — my personal one is from 1926 or 1927 and still very wearable.
It was made for more than 10 years in fairly significant numbers and it just typifies everything that is so special about Rolex.
Fake Rolex Beta 21 ref. 5100 Watches
There were about a dozen companies involved in the BETA 21 development. The original Betas never went into production — if they had then they could have been the first-ever quartz wristwatches.
The China replica Rolex Beta 21 watches was so different — it came at the end of the 1960s when other high-end manufacturers were going ultra-slim. The Beta 21 movement is huge — about an inch by three-quarters of an inch — so it was impossible to make a thin watch from it.
The unusual shapes were just part of their appeal, the other part is that in the 1960s, Rolex super clone watches wholesale were priced on the basis of accuracy, so the more expensive the watch, the more precise.
In the 1971 catalogue, the most expensive non-gem-set Rolex was a Day-Date costing around £4,000.
The Beta 21 was £14,000.
So, the next generation was only going to be made in small quantities because, back then, few people bought hugely expensive Rolex replica watches shop online.
We don’t know the exact number made, but it is estimated that there were about 1,000 pieces. They are numbered and I have never seen one higher than nine hundred and something.
It is also suggested that only about 40-50% have survived as during the 1980s and 1990s, when gold hit prices of $1,900 and nobody saw value in quartz, a lot of the 1:1 Swiss fake Rolex watches were scrapped.
Out of the estimated 1,000 pieces, about 80% were in yellow gold with 20% in white gold, hence the white gold ones are worth three to four times more today — somewhere around £60,000 to £90,000.