How to spot a fake Tissot PRC-200

[Shademantis]

The seller referred to by Racerob is now listing his PRC200's as:

TISSOT²

Does that mean anything to anybody?

[Racerob]

The seller referred to by Racerob is now listing his PRC200's as:

TISSOT²

Does that mean anything to anybody?

My listing said the same thing. I questioned him about that and he claims that when he inputs the info with ebay that is the way it appears. I know it sounds fishy and I was very leery. All I can say is that it passes the test above and the dealer said it is real. It is definitely "buyer beware" with some of the Chinese sellers but it appears that there are some that are legit.

[jip]

my watch has the "BI" engraved in the deployant buckle and I'm 99% positive it's real, as it stands up to every other comparison shown here

do others with the real deal have "BI" engraved in the buckle?

[hiver]

my watch has the "BI" engraved in the deployant buckle and I'm 99% positive it's real, as it stands up to every other comparison shown here

do others with the real deal have "BI" engraved in the buckle?

Mine, that I bought at eBay, has the "BI" engraving. It is a very good looking watch and to the naked eye it passes some comparisons shown here except for:

BI engraving.
Thick padded strap.
Tachymetre writings that do not look as centered as it should.

I am sure it would pass as real even at some authorized Tissot representatives but I am also quite sure that it is probably a replica. I wish this thread existed before I dumbly bought a swiss watch shipped from China. My seller says that the BI is due to the chinese stainless steel supplier used by the official Tissot factory in China. This sounds very weird and I don't believe it. So the famous Swiss Made watch is actually assembled in the official chinese factory and shipped directly to me without ever being in Switzerland??? It seems that me and many others, at least in some way, got scammed.

Regards.

[Schumacherfan]

Mine, that I bought at eBay, has the "BI" engraving. It is a very good looking watch and to the naked eye it passes some comparisons shown here except for:

BI engraving.
Thick padded strap.
Tachymetre writings that do not look as centered as it should.

I am sure it would pass as real even at some authorized Tissot representatives but I am also quite sure that it is probably a replica. I wish this thread existed before I dumbly bought a swiss watch shipped from China. My seller says that the BI is due to the chinese stainless steel supplier used by the official Tissot factory in China. This sounds very weird and I don't believe it. So the famous Swiss Made watch is actually assembled in the official chinese factory and shipped directly to me without ever being in Switzerland??? It seems that me and many others, at least in some way, got scammed.

Regards.

I bought mine from Jomashop, who is an authorized amazon vendor. Mine says BL on the metal band but not BI. I took it to an AD and he verified it to be real. The only bad thing with Tissot is apparently no serial #. So is it BI on your band?

[jip]

the BI engraving definitely does not prove its fake, mine is real and it has it, and this marking shows on many legit web sites also

[TimeSeeker]

AFAIK it should say BL.

[seanpiper]

This is an excellent resource. Thanks for taking the time to compile these comparisons... very interesting!

[Stiggy Palgrave]

my watch has the "BI" engraved in the deployant buckle and I'm 99% positive it's real, as it stands up to every other comparison shown here

do others with the real deal have "BI" engraved in the buckle?

Mine says BI, and is most definitely real (it's been opened up and taken to the AD and whatnot)... I have changed the band since though.

[M.Photog]

Here I am watch in hand wondering if I am another statistic. My wife heard me comment on the PRC 200 and decided to sneak around an buy me one for Christmas. She had our son order it so I would not see it on our credit card, real slick She did a search and decided to buy it from and online dealer in California which on their website claims to sell only genuine watches. She paid $259

I have never owned a Tissot so I don't claim to know anything about them. after looking carefully at this thread and some other research I'm not sure what I have. I even did a search for fake Tissot watches and found a website that admits their watches are fake so who knows if their pictures are a fake or genuine. I thought this might help me tell the truth about my watch, now I am just more confused.

Here are my observations

The overall quality of packaging of my watch seems to be better that what is shown in the examples provided...

The lettering and hands on my watch look closer to the genuine than the fake although the point were the big chronograph center hand mounts is yellow.

The clasp on my watch has the BI as shown on the fake. I think I read here that someone has a genuine watch with BI on it's clasp

Here is the big one. My watch has no lume on the numbers, just on the hands

My watch does have a screw down crown which I have not noticed mentioned here.

I set the time weeks ago and it is still accurate to about 1 second.

If this watch is a fake it is a pretty good one. I need to know for sure before it makes me nuts

I am in a business where intellectual property rights are important so I have no intention of wearing a fake watch.

I really had no idea that fakes were such an issue in this price range of watch.