If you should buy your Rolex watch straight from a dealer, you are assured of it being genuine. It is possible to get a genuine Rolex watch from the newspaper advertisements, or the Internet. But then again you need to know the source where you are buying it from, as otherwise you might land up with a replica of the Rolex watch that you want. One way you can detect a replica Rolex or fake Rolex watch is by looking at the way the second hand travels the dial of the watch. These replicas are mostly quartz where the second hand stops and moves. In case of genuine Rolex, the second hand sweeps the dial, unlike the replica or fake watches.

Rolex had quartz movements in a few of their models in the 1980’s. This idea was soon dropped and the continuous movement technology was introduced. You will not find any Rolex models having quartz movement as you would in a replica. However, Rolex did come out with a few models with quartz movement in the year 2003. These are the Air King models, which are quite rarely seen and do not have much of an appeasing look. Rolex Cellini watches have been introduced during 2007, in which the men’s watch is hand-wound, while the ladies model uses quartz for movement.