In the 1990’s, our oldest son went on “Teens Westward Bound,” a bus tour across the country for high school students. One day, the tour bus went down to Tijuana, and afterward, he called, thrilled, that he had bought a Rolex for only $20. I could not convince him he had been taken, even though the watch had a Quartz movement. He called the next day, dejected that the second hand had fallen off.
> about that fake Rolex...
He shouldn’t feel too bad. When I was younger I went to Juarez and bought what I thought was a pure gold chain (yeah they did the “acid” test to “prove” it was “pure” gold). Six moinths later the gold starts flaking off and I see what looks like a plastic skeleton of a chain underneath. I felt like an idiot. So tell him he’s not alone...: )