With the holidays just around the corner and the year having nearly come to an end, for watch enthusiasts, that means it’s time to look back on 2023 and reflect upon some of our favorite perfect replica watches of the year.
Earlier this week, we took a look at our favorite budget watches, sports watches, and dress watches, but today, we’re taking it up a notch – our picks for the best-complicated watches of 2023. From RD mic drops to Patek grand comps, we’ve put together a solid list of some seriously complicated and exciting UK 1:1 fake watches.
Replica Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 Universelle RD#4 Watches– Mark Kauzlarich
There have been a lot of great complicated Swiss made fake watches in 2023. I love the ingenuity behind so many of them, and it really does take a lot at this point to reinvent the wheel of even the simplest complication. But if you’re talking about complications in the purest sense, I think everything takes a back seat to Audemars Piguet this year. The brand’s headquarters in Le Brassus places it right in the heart of what was known as the “Valley of Complications,” and it’s about time the brand brought that title back home.
A watch like the RD#4 comes around every handful of years – I’d say once every eight to ten years in fact – and while it might not turn everything on its head, it sets a new high water mark that everything else will be judged by. Say what you will about the design, the choice of open-worked dial, or even the Code 11:59 case, but you can’t deny the watchmaking here. From the integration and consolidation of parts to the foolproofing that allows this high quality copy watches – with perpetual calendar, minute repeater, sonneries, split-second chronograph, Semi-Gregorian calendar, accurate astronomical moon, the list goes on and on – to be worn and enjoyed, there’s a lot to marvel at from a technical standpoint. That’s why the watch won the top award at GPHG this year.
But more than just an incredible 23 complications in a relatively reasonable 42mm in diameter and 15.5mm case, the top replica watches is a wonderful tribute to the history of the Vallée de Joux and the brand itself. If the “heart” of the brand for the last 124 years was “L’Universelle” – a 19-complication pocket watch sitting literally at the center of AP’s museum – the brand’s future is probably in the RD#4 “Universelle.” It also proves that as time has moved on and manufacturing has moved in-house, the Vallée de Joux is not just a valley of complications equally across brands anymore. No, it’s a reminder that Audemars Piguet is a house of complications all to itself in many respects, and this watch proves that the brand is far more than the “one trick pony” it’s often accused of being.
–Mark Kauzlarich, Editor and Staff Photographer
Fake IWC Big Pilot White Ceramic Perpetual Calendar Watches– Danny Milton
When thinking about how to choose my favorite complicated watch of 2023, I tried to divorce myself from notions of what I should pick and stick to a watch to which I had a true visceral reaction. And while my choice may not be a new complication or design but rather a new colorway of sorts, I’m sticking with it. And that would be the luxury replica IWC White Ceramic Big Pilot Perpetual Calendar watches. For the past few years, my colleagues and I have been enamored with the Mojave QP Big Pilot iteration.
Something about the massive case size and dial real estate allows for the multitude of complications to sing amidst one another. The tan colors of the Mojave presented a uniquely sporty take on the QP aesthetic. But then the white ceramic version arrived this year and punched me square in the jaw with clean, bold, contrast-forward looks. Looking at this 2024 wholesale super clone watches reminds me of getting a fresh set of contact lenses after wearing an out-of-date prescription for far too long. It’s as if I can see again. I love the hyper-high contrast of the white text against the black dial that is accentuated once more by the white case. In the end, I can’t pull off a Big Pilot in any way, shape, or form (I’m a 36-40mm kind of guy), but that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate a good watch when I see one.
–Danny Milton, Managing Editor
Hublot Takashi Murakami Tourbillon Sapphire MP-15 Replica Watches – Malaika Crawford
Hublot is a brand I admire for its sheer confidence and conviction. Its partnership with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami is actually one of the few collabs in the industry that I am genuinely enthused by. It feels splashy in an earnest we-don’t-care-what-you-think-this-is-fire kind of way. The Murakami fake watches for sale themselves are extortionately priced (this one costs a cool $316,000) but they are mini oeuvres.
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Murakami is a luxury collaboration prophet and has been majorly impacting the fashion zeitgeist since then Louis Vuitton Creative Director Marc Jacobs commissioned him to make LV mixed media prints (including the beloved multicolor Murakami Speedy) in the early aughts.
The MP-15 was released last month. It’s completely clear and flower-shaped and technically has no dial, just a flying tourbillon that sits inside of a smiley face with little hands that poke out and indices that become visible if you squint hard enough. I think we all understand that checking the time on this thing is hardly the point. The cheap replica watches is made of carved sapphire crystal and houses the brand’s first central flying tourbillon. It’s conceptual, it’s complicated, and it’s perfectly Murakami.
–Malaika Crawford, Style Editor
