You do not have to spend too long looking around the internet to come across web stores offering ‘replica Swiss watches’ which they claim can fool even a professional jeweller on close inspection. These items are readily available but are in no way connected with the genuine manufacturers, who are joining together with a vow to prosecute fake watch traders who trade both online and on the streets of many major towns and cities around the world.
Swiss Watchmakers are urging customers to ‘Buy with your conscience, not your wallet,’ as fake counterfeit watches offered by traders throughout the world can be purchased at a fraction of the price, however, they are not genuine items and will not last anywhere near as long.
FHH (Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie), a group who represents top Swiss watchmakers have recently launched an international campaign known as ‘Fake Watches Are For Fake People’ in an attempt to get across the idea to customers that the only Rolex Watches, for example, which you should buy are those available only from genuine stockists as stated by the manufacturers. All it takes is for customers to say ‘No!’ to fake products and these traders will go out of business, leaving only the genuine items for sale in our towns and cities, hence why FHH are so keen to push their international campaign.
Banks Lyon are pleased to be an official authorised stockist of the following brands of watches;
Armani, Breitling, Cartier, Chopard, Dreyfuss & Co, Gucci, Links of London, Longines, Omega, Rolex, Rotary, Tag Heur, Tissot and TW Steel.

