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 2024 and reflect on some of our favorite Swiss made replica watches of the past year.
Over the past several days, we’ve shared our picks for our favorite 1:1 CA fake watches from a handful of genres, including Dress, Budget, and Complicated. Today, I’ve collected the Hodinkee editorial team to share their favorite sport from 2024. The ever-sporty list is below and covers a range that is both predictable (good is good) and surprising, including solid gold stunners, no shortage of extra time zones, and even a pick that may have a few of you clutching your pearls.
Replica Rolex Daytona Le Mans Watches In Yellow Gold
I am who I am. I could try to pick something obscure and interesting here, but if it came down to it, there is but one watch (sports or other) that I would die to own from 2024, and that is the luxury fake Rolex Le Mans Daytona watches in yellow gold. It takes the best of what I wrote about here, and dials up the fun factor just a little bit by making it in yellow gold. Did I mention that my birth year Daytona is a 6263 in yellow that looks a heck of a lot like this? It’s Rolex doing what only Rolex can do. I just love it.
Fake Rolex GMT-Master II ref. 126710GRNR Watches
Contrary to popular opinion held by male watch editors, I have never owned or wanted to own modern cheap CA replica Rolex GMT watches. I’m not immune to a Hodinkee cliche Rolex, though; I own and love a vintage Rolex Explorer ref. 1016 – it’s a gilt dial; okay, I’m different! Anyway, Rolex made me think twice this year with the after-launch-nicknamed “Bruce Wayne” GMT, technically reference 126710GRNR. Modern Rolex is very anti-under-the-radar. The professional models span most wearer’s entire wrists, and the polished surfaces do everything to say, “HEY, I’m WEARING A ROLEX!” That’s sort of the point of a healthy portion of the brand’s buyers, but it’s not the vibe I am trying to give off. I’ve been intrigued by the no-date Submariner for its more toned-down Rolex-ness, but I find the case and clasp a bit stout. The GMT case wears well on my wrist, but the dare-I-say loud bezel colors and their various nicknames have always stopped me.
You can see where I’m going here. The latest GMT, released at Watches and Wonders 2024, is aimed exactly at my segment of the market. It’s the toned-down GMT that might have changed everything for me when it comes to modern high quality Rolex copy watches. I can now stop thinking about the previous-gen all-black bezel ref. 116710LN and set my sights on one day becoming a modern Rolex guy. The “Bruce Wayne” hits a perfect balance of just enough yet not too much. It’s a considered choice for the modern GMT-needing consumer.
Hublot SAXEM Green Big Bang Unico Replica Watches
Stop the presses, TanTan has jumped the shark. This is probably what one of you readers is going to promptly comment down below. But ever since I tried this on early in the year, I can’t stop thinking about it. In the sea of criticism that Hublot gets every year, the top replica Hublot Big Bang Unico watches sticks out to me as a gem. First and foremost, anything that’s just so damn green will most likely catch my eye, and this is no exception. There – that’s my bias disclaimer.
Second, this super clone watches for men basically shows what Hublot does best – the Unico is truly an underrated in-house flyback chronograph movement, especially when cased in the smaller 42mm size. And, of course, the brand is all about materials. SAXEM, an alloy of aluminum oxide that uses rare earth elements to produce the absolutely surreal color in the crystal, is a good reminder that Hublot doubles down its R&D department to stuff that no one else seems to be exploring. It’s developing materials like this that pursue essentially no virtue other than aesthetics, and I love that they’re going all out for it.
Will I ever pay the eye-watering price tag that this watch commands? Absolutely not. Do I wish someone would gift me this watch? Absolutely yes. What I’m hoping, though, is that the brand continues to experiment with materials like this so that one day, we can see it make its way into more accessible Swiss online replica watches.
Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5164G Fake Watches
I flip-flopped a lot in picking my favorite sports watch of the year, but if I got the Doxa Sub 200T into the budget picks (just barely), then I had to contend with the competition between two very different replica watches wholesale shop, the Tudor Black Bay 58 GMT and the Patek Philippe Aquanaut 5164A. As the above selections effectively represent the Rolex/Tudor contingent (and with good reason), I’m going for the latest version of my favorite sporty Patek, the 2024 white gold 5164G Aquanaut.
I, like many, adore the now discontinued steel 5164A copy watches for men, so it was a thrill when Patek announced something of a stand-in but in a format that felt distinct from the steel travel timer. Here, for the 5164G, we have a white gold 40.8mm case that surrounds a lovely blue dial and is mounted to a matching blue rubber strap. Jumping from steel to gold is certainly one way to underline what many took as little more than a new dial color, but as a successor to the 5164A, I think they managed to do something that respects the original appeal while offering its own personality. The push-button dual-time function remains, and I have to say that my love for the combination of the blue dial and strap has only grown since Watches & Wonders this past April.
