If you can find one current running through our history for the past two thousand years, it’s our quest to seek accuracy. We equate accuracy with perfection, and go to huge lengths to seek new ways of improving our accuracy. Our maths gets more complex, or science more advanced, and our measurements more advanced. When it comes to time, we see this reaching a point with the Swiss watches, which we see as synonymous for quality.

In fact, the Swiss watches lost out in the accuracy stakes in the 1950s. A new era of atomic clocks and quartz clocks started appearing changing error rates from a second a month to a second a millennium. In fact, it’s an irony these days that replica Rolex watches these days are likely to be as accurate as the real Rolexes.

In fact, it’s not that much of a surprise. The replicas are generally made from exactly the same metals, alloys, and components as the real one. They’re assembled by qualified engineers in Japan, a country well known for its emphasis on quality and precision in other areas, particularly shipbuilding and automotive. To all intents and purposes, the difference between a replica Rolex and a real one is merely the location of assembly, and the box that it comes in.

When you consider that the price of, say, a replica women’s Rolex is about $150-200, and the price of a real Rolex is from $3000 to $8000 depending on the strap and color, it’s not surprising that the replica industry is doing so well. And when you actually see and handle one of the replicas, you understand why the replica industry is doing so well.