My father is an avid collector of watches, particularly fake ones.  During the mid nineties, we used to spend hour upon hour wandering around Ap Liu St in SSP, where old men with briefcases (like the one pictured) would peddle their replica wares on the pavement.  These however, were not just your garden variety Rolex rip-offs, but included fakes of complex swiss movements a la Patek Phillipe; from minute-repeaters to tourbillons...  After the handover, these street salesmen all but disappeared - probably because the market became more lucrative back on the mainland.  But there are still numerous stalls on Ap Liu St these days that sell vintage watches and watch accesories.


Nadim Abbas 21/3/2011