How to spot a fake Tissot

[JCCR]

Hi!

Yep! I think it's better to return it and ask for refund you. To see if a Tissot is fake, look at first step, the offical website of Tissot (www.tissot.ch) and you will find the real models and then you can see the "original"!

[StevenY]

Hey guys, I just got my prc 200 in the mail. How does it look? Thanks!

[JCCR]

Hi!

At first look, it seems original! Can you put some photos more of the box (back) and the warranty? But it seems very good!

[StevenY]

Here are pictures of the box, the warranty card isn't stamped. Maybe it was purchased online?

[JCCR]

Hi!

Well, the fact that the warranty card isn't stanped maybe - just maybe - only a sign that the purchase was online. The interior of the box seems ok, but there are two things that concern me:

1 - the catalog is from 2007/2008. At the moment, the PRC200 is sell with the last catalog.

2 - in the back of the box, between the marks of "Tissot", the second "white line" is bigger (larger) then the others... usually is the first bigger then the second and third (but it can be only a coincidence).


Two questions to clarify: where did you buy the watch? In an AD? Ebay? Amazon? Another thing: I don't see (in the lateral of the box) the symbol of recycling electronic material (a garbish container with a cross). Maybe is the photo that don't show it? Can you check?

[StevenY]

Hi!

Well, the fact that the warranty card isn't stanped maybe - just maybe - only a sign that the purchase was online. The interior of the box seems ok, but there are two things that concern me:

1 - the catalog is from 2007/2008. At the moment, the PRC200 is sell with the last catalog.

2 - in the back of the box, between the marks of "Tissot", the second "white line" is bigger (larger) then the others... usually is the first bigger then the second and third (but it can be only a coincidence).


Two questions to clarify: where did you buy the watch? In an AD? Ebay? Amazon? Another thing: I don't see (in the lateral of the box) the symbol of recycling electronic material (a garbish container with a cross). Maybe is the photo that don't show it? Can you check?

Yeah, there is a recycle symbol on the box. I bought the watch on Ebay.

[JCCR]

Hi!

Ok, at the beginning, things are ok. The question of warranty is - I think - the unique problem. The ebay seller is a shop or private? If he's a shop, then you must contact him and tell that the warranty is not stamped. If he's private, then it's more difficult. I don't think that an AD will put a stamp in a article bought in ebay. But try to contact also your local dealer - if you have one - and tell (in the case that the ebay seller answer negative to you) whta happened. Maybe he open the watch, look carefuly and if he concluded that everything is ok, maybe he put the stamp in your warranty.

[StevenY]

Hi!

Ok, at the beginning, things are ok. The question of warranty is - I think - the unique problem. The ebay seller is a shop or private? If he's a shop, then you must contact him and tell that the warranty is not stamped. If he's private, then it's more difficult. I don't think that an AD will put a stamp in a article bought in ebay. But try to contact also your local dealer - if you have one - and tell (in the case that the ebay seller answer negative to you) whta happened. Maybe he open the watch, look carefuly and if he concluded that everything is ok, maybe he put the stamp in your warranty.

Thanks. The seller told me that the watch was recently serviced, I believe they are a pawn shop. Another jewelry shop would stamp my warranty even though I didn't purchase the watch from them?

[JCCR]

Hi!

A Jewelry shop tamp a watch seller in another place? I don't think so. The excepcion is a Jewelry/AD "franchise" (with several shops from the same seller). In my country, Portugal, we have "Boutique dos Relógios" (Watch Boutique) that put a warranty in a watch sold by another shop of that web dealer. In your case and once thw watch was "already opened", I think it will be difficult to obtain the stamp. The first step you must find (at the beginning, your local AD can obtain that reference) the watch own number, to find his year. If the watch have less then 2 years, you can try to contact Tissot service center and try to "certificate" the warranty (for instances, tell them that your watch have some problem and if you could send the watch to them).

Try it... you have nothing to loose!

[StevenY]

All right, thanks a lot for your help. :)