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Wow. The days of crappy fakes died with cheap tech. Its a cat and mouse game at this point. I pulled up a couple 'high end' clone movements online that were said to be reverse engendered from an actual Daytona movement. I compared screen grabs from the OP and what I found online. Scary close. Laser scans, CAD Micro-Machining and presto, you have todays problem. I would post a picture of the fake movement, but ......It looks just like the real one to me.
The problem is 2...3....7.....10 fold. Cheap labor in Asia, low buy in costs for CAD machine parts, Rolex AD's playing the hide in the safe or sell out the back door game, lax laws etc.
The treasury makes changes to currency only to have counterfeiters fake the new tech. Same thing here.
One way to truly slow down the fake flow is for Rolex to allow their AD's to run serial numbers as a service to the brand on the spot or make the list available online*. It wont stop the customer wanting a fake but it will stop the seller trying to pass of a fake.
*I assume they will never do this because of fear of counterfeiter using real serial numbers. But that is likely the next cat out of the bag.
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