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Stéphan Ciejka et Fabrice Guéroux – Association Truetime, s’unissent pour lancer la nouvelle campagne de lutte anti-contrefaçon Truetime
Initiée en France par Fabrice Gueroux, la campagne « Lutter contre le faux – Préserver le patrimoine » a été lancée le 15 juin 2014 ! La Revue des Montres et Truetime contre le faux. English version - click here Depuis, c'est près de 50.000 lecteurs amateurs d'horlogerie qui ont pu la découvrir dans les pages...
Waking up to the counterfeiting nightmare
For a long time, the world of counterfeits was a source of badly-made products of dubious taste. But times have changed, in particular with respect to sophisticated watches. A dozen years ago, one could easily identify a fake Rolex or Panerai by the poor quality metal. Today, it's a different story… - Fabrice Guéroux What...
What price that collector's watch?
Counterfeiting hits hardest in three markets: brands, pre-owned and collectors. Spurred on by the current infatuation with watches, itself fuelled by the media and by brands' all-out marketing campaigns, more and more people, from enlightened amateurs to recent converts, are turning to collecting. Meanwhile, the century's...
Counterfeiters take their business a step further
Just as brands are developing new systems to authenticate their watches, so counterfeiters are stepping up a gear too. - Fabrice Guéroux Why deny the ever-growing demand for fake watches when dozens of new sites appear each week? And while brands and counterfeiters can’t really be said to be batting in the same league, there is...
"Real & fake watches," the essential book on fake watches
"I'm passionate about collector's watches and counterfeiting casts a shadow over this passion for many collectors," explains Fabrice Guéroux, author of Real & Fake watches*. "Whereas once we took pleasure in tracking down an impossible-to-find part to complete restoration of a watch, we now spend more time "identifying" a...
