Browsing eBay lately I've noticed a suspiciously high number of excellent condition 1000 Series TAG Heuer divers. The one above seems an overly bright red, which is a red flag, but they also seem to be coming in blue, black and two tone.
I would be very wary of buying any of these watches to be honest, however attractive they might be.
These all seem to be coming from Germany and Austria, and seem to be selling, which is not surprising because the prices are way lower than you'd expect. Most of these are starting around £200, which given that we know a 'genuine' red 1000 sold for over £1000 not that long ago, is pretty odd!
It makes sense for a fake-maker to take a basic model and produce different colour versions of the same basic watch, that is after all what the watch makers themselves do, but it does help the buyer spot the pattern when there's so many on eBay at once. I wonder then, are the buyers being duped or are they knowingly buying fakes because they think they look nice and they are cheap?
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