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Thread: Tudor GMT bracelet - are the rivets REALLY fake?

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    Tudor GMT bracelet - are the rivets REALLY fake?

    Been wearing mine for the last 10 days or so, and have from time to time looked at the bracelet rivets. If they are not real, then how are the link pins inserted on manufacture (or changed if/when they wear)?

    They commonly get stick for being 'fake'; I'm not so sure they are really. At the least, they look like they have to be fancy friction pins if not actual rivets. I cannot tell by inspection whether the heads mushroom over but that's probably just my eyes!

    Anyone know how they work for sure?

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    It's not unusual for a bracelet to have the first 5 or so links built without the possibility of removal.

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    I realise that, thanks. But the question was, are the rivets real or fake? Still interested to know

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    Don't know for sure, but logically the rivet heads are put on each end of the pins, probably a sort of click on end piece rather than a traditional rivet as such.

    I might be wrong and often am...

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    That's a possibility I hadn't considered - neatly done if so.

    Given the 'fake' cries, I was initially assuming the 'heads' were formed integral to the link sections (cannot see enough detail to say either way), but that would leave it a mystery as to how the pins were inserted (or ever to be changed) where the links are solid and not folded.

    Someone must have had one apart

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    At least half the rivets are fake.

    If you look at the pic below the lower rivet on each link does not sit where link pivots on the adjacent link, I have have arrowed the rivets on the pic and this follows throughout the bracelet.

    Obviously the upper rivet on each link does correspond with the pivot point but I cant say wether the rivet goes through the link or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pupp View Post
    I realise that, thanks. But the question was, are the rivets real or fake? Still interested to know

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    Ah, well they are milled from one piece of steel, that is to say that the rivet pieces aren't attached in anyway but they are part of the link themselves.

    Atleast, that's what most of Tudors press said around the time of the manufacture black bay releases.

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    100% fake. There was an article floating about when the 58 came out, where the journalist had spoken to a Tudor rep at Basel who couldn't understand how Oris are producing a genuine high quality rivet bracelet at the price they do

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    With all the Tudor brackets, the rivets are just for decoration. Not real.

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