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Message:: [QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 2387059, member: 6444"]I have a rolex oyster perpetual that my uncle bought new in the 40's/50's. My dad gave it to me when it stopped working, and I took it to a watchmaker in the 80's who cleaned it and remarked that it was the only real rolex he had seen all year - there were that many fake rolex's saturating the market back then. The only way to tell for sure that you have an authentic watch is to take off the back and examine the movement. Any jeweler/watchmaker can do that, though a rolex dealer would be even better. That said, your watch does not look authentic to me. The back looks to be a push on back (rolex used a threaded screw on back) and the winder is too thin and skimpy looking, plus other problems. You can see the differences if you compare it to the one kyratango linked to. Also, I have read that statement about smooth movement of second hand for rolex's, but this is not true for the old oyster perpetuals. It is true that cheaper quartz movements tick once per second, so if your watch is ticking once per second it is clearly not a rolex movement. Most of the really cheap fakes being sold on the street in NYC back then used these cheap quartz movements so that is an adequate test for those. But my uncle's watch ticked four times to move one second - I'm a drummer so this is the kind of thing I noticed.[/QUOTE]