Chemical Profiling: The Best Way to Help Expose Fake Watches

Indeed, the rise of counterfeit timepieces or ‘super-fakes’ is becoming an increasing threat to the Swiss luxury watch industry. It has become more challenging to spot a fake watch even by professionals. While many brands starting from Omega, Panerai to Audemars Piguet and Patek Philippe are popular targets, Rolex is undoubtedly the primary target of the fake watch manufacturers.  However, this can be distressing news for people who are looking to ‘sell my watch’, ‘sell watch online’ or ‘sell my Rolex watch’. 

But the good news is that researchers are figuring out some effective ways to spot these super fakes that can help eventually in eradicating the increasing threat of fake watches in the Swiss luxury watch industry. 

Identify the Trace Metals

Counterfeit watches are diligently constructed to be close-to-perfect in each detail, and they can bestow a severely detrimental effect on bottom lines of the brands if not obliterated before time. However, researchers in Switzerland today think that it is possible to differentiate between a genuine and counterfeit watch. How? 

You can distinguish between them by examining the trace metals in their composition carefully. This method can also help in determining the origin of fake timepieces. Scientists from the Cantonal Laboratory of Vaud, the University of Lausanne and the Swiss Watch Industry’s anti-counterfeiting department inspected a sample of thirty-five counterfeit watches. 

With the help of elementarily coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry, the scientists examined the watch cases for getting a readout of the metal’s elemental composition. As per the Securing Industry that reports on brand security and supply chain, researchers found that they could amass some of the counterfeits based on their components. Later, the findings were cross-referenced with earlier assembled intelligence about the source of confiscated fake watches. While some data of the chemical profiling verified the continuing knowledge, others disclosed new connections between different specimens and seizures. 

How to Make Chemical Profiles for Fake Watches

Forensic Science International or FHS noted that expensive and sophisticated machinery needed to produce ‘super-fakes’ is found only at a limited number of production sites. Thus, while the watch cases coming from a similar production batch are fabricated from the same raw materials, they should possess similar chemical composition. 

Eventually, if scientists can develop a chemical profile for certain counterfeit watches originating from a particular location, they would ideally be able to spot future counterfeits coming from there. The Swiss luxury watch industry makes nearly 30million authentic watches per year. However, counterfeit watches today account for 9percent of every custom seizure. However, the number of ‘super-fakes’ will merely increase unless the Swiss scientists can figure out the appropriate way to eliminate the emerging threat. 

Where Can I Sell My Watch?

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