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Home » Reader question » Buy good brand imitation watch in Thailand
Buy good brand imitation watch in Thailand
Dear readers,
I would like to buy a good brand imitation watch in Thailand during my vacation, for example a Breitling or Patek Philippe. Where in Bangkok can you go for this. And how to distinguish a good imitation from a bad imitation?
Regards,
Marco
Hi Mark
There is indeed a lot of difference in watches. I myself have been buying for years from a certain “guy” who has a stand at the Patpong Night Market. I regularly buy watches there and he also repairs them for em if they are broken (free of charge). The high-quality watches are often elsewhere (under the stand for example)
If you are interested, please contact me and I can explain where it is exactly (it is very easy to find)
I think all responses will be sent to my private email, so that should be fine.
GR Josh.
ps: For a layman it is very difficult to see what the better watches are, so a good address that can be trusted and provides good service is important.
The price.
Marco
You can buy a good watch at MBK in Bangkok.
walk around and enjoy the many stands and floors where everything is for sale, don't respond immediately to the price, try to negotiate the price is certainly a fun game.
also look at other providers and negotiate the price.
take cash with you that is better than pins.
Henry
Marco, why do you want to buy an imitation? I think brands like Seiko make beautiful watches and are of better quality than any imitation.
I used to buy imitation watches at Silom Village. When you go in there and walk all the way to the end, take a left out of Silom Village. But when you go outside you don't walk all the way to the street, but immediately turn right. In a corner, ten meters away, is a shop where you could ask about the watches once inside. Then you were led through a secret door into a room where you could get great imitations. I don't know if it still exists, because that was more than ten years ago.
You can buy imitations all over Bangkok.
I then go to the Patpong night market, there are many stalls selling imitation watches.
All well-known brands are there. My experience is that some clocks still work after 4 years and some clocks stop after half a year. But do look very good. Hardly distinguishable from the real thing for a layman.
Please note: you can take a maximum of 3 with you to the Netherlands. If you take more with you and customs sees that you have more than you have lost everything and a hefty fine richer.
You could also check out a used watch store!
Sometimes very surprising!
In China town you will find enough imitations to bargain a lot. Sometimes you are lucky and it lasts a long time, but you can also be unlucky. A real one, all the hands that are extra on the case run and they have a
number inside the dial of a copy is not.
Patpong they are also sold there but more expensive than China town. China town can be found in many shops.
Yawarat Road past the Starbucks can't be missed.
Hi Marco,
My advice is take a look at fashion pattern on instragram ,
They have everything you are looking for and cannot be distinguished from the real thing. If I were you, I would take a look there and not take any risks with buying in Thailand.
definitely to be found in shopping mall MBK
An indication of a better timepiece is the movement of the second hand. Jerky Loop is a plastic timepiece. Smoother running is better timepiece.
A quartz with a battery is choppy and an automatic is smooth! No plastic!!!
I buy a new watch every year in Pattaya, usually rolex from peddlers who walk past terraces on the street. Take all the time, have everything e or can get it. Different strap or color no problem and custom strap same. Nice price (around 50 euros), just like the real thing, they are only lighter in weight. After years and sometimes after 2 years battery is empty and just have a new battery put in in the Netherlands. So it's nice to buy something new. Be sure that this hawker will also be present in BKK. Good luck.
I discovered DHGate as an alternative to the stalls in Bangkok. Although shopping is often part of a trip to Bangkok, I can now save time because the choice is huge on that site and they ship everything to the Netherlands and no one has yet made it difficult at customs (sometimes experienced differently from Thailand at Schiphol and that was with an original watch… shows how much they know about it).
Only when I find another Cartier Roadster imitation in Thailand (with brown strap and gold color) do I want to tack…
And how do you know if it's something?
Well, before you buy, compare a lot. There is really a difference in the watches when you hold them. And it goes from 3 euros to over 1000 for a counterfeit. My experience is that most under 30 euros are slightly less in terms of quality and those between 70 and 130 are fine (at DHgate that is, prices in Bangkok are unknown to me at the moment). The more 'complicated' a watch is, the faster it can break.
Best of luck!
Bought a great Breitling a few years ago at the night market in Pattaya. After a bit of bargaining for 2000 baht. Inside, citizen work with citizen label on it. On my next visit I will buy a Patek Philippe, fully automatic machine with Casio interior.
I recently wrote a whole piece about it. Rolex has A-AA-AAA imitations. Breitling has 2 and Patek only has 1. A good imitation of Breitling costs around 110 euros, automatic. Much cheaper from patek.