Reference · not a shop
Who builds what, and what can actually be verified.
This site keeps one thing: a record of what is publicly known about the replica watch trade: which factories exist, which are gone, what buyers get told, and which claims nobody has evidence for.
repdb.io is a reference site about the replica watch trade, written for buyers who arrive with a brand and a reference number. It records which factories are publicly reported to build what, reproduces the third-party tests that exist, and marks everything nobody has measured as unverified.
Factory profiles
What each workshop was or is known for, whether it is still producing, and which names get confused with which. Where a claim has no public source, the page says so instead of filling the gap.
Brand mapping
Per brand: which factories are actually reported to build it, and the third-party tests that exist. Scores on these pages belong to whoever ran the test, not to us.
Seller records
One dated record per domain observed selling in this trade: seven checkable dimensions, four states, the evidence under each, an evidence grade that counts completeness only, and the seller's right of reply on the same page. No total score, no ranking, and nothing for sale.
Guides
Terminology, what a QC photo set should show, how payment methods behave when something goes wrong, and what buyers actually ask before they pay.
What will this site not do?
These are the constraints this site holds itself to on every page. They bind the operator's own commercial interests as much as anyone else's, and they are why a page here can be read without knowing who wrote it.
- No ratings of our own. We reproduce other people's tests with a link to the original and the caveats they attached — never a score we invented.
- No recommendations. No "best", no "trusted", no shortlist. Pages state facts; the decision is the reader's.
- No paid placement. A listing's status cannot be bought, and any commercial interest the operator holds is disclosed in the same place as everyone else's.
- No filling in blanks. When something is not publicly documented — steel grade, case thickness, ownership — the page says "not verified" and stops there.
Published so far
All 32 factory profiles, grouped by what is recorded about each label's current state, from most settled to least. Inside a group the order is alphabetical and carries no meaning: a status is a fact about the label, not a judgement about it.
In production6
- ARF Factory Rolex · 3 signature references · RWI 2026 285/340 2 open questions
- BVF Factory Cartier · 2 signature references · no test score 2 open questions
- Clean Plus (CPLUS) also written C+ · Clean+ Rolex · 2 signature references · RWI 2026 291/340 3 open questions
- QF Factory Rolex · 3 signature references · RWI 2026 268/340 3 open questions
- RICH Factory also written RF Rolex · 2 signature references · RWI 2026 310/340 3 open questions
- VS Factory also written VSF 5 brands · 3 signature references · RWI 2026 302/340 3 open questions
Discontinued1
Name reused1
Unconfirmed21
- 3K Factory also written 3KF Patek Philippe · Cartier · 2 signature references · no test score 3 open questions
- AF Factory also written AFF Cartier · 1 signature reference · no test score 3 open questions
- APS Factory also written APSF Hublot · Audemars Piguet · 2 signature references · no test score 2 open questions
- AR Factory Rolex, the Datejust and Sea-Dweller lines in dealer write-ups · 2 signature references · no test score 3 open questions
- BP Factory 3 brands · 1 signature reference · no test score 2 open questions
- BTF Factory also written BT Rolex · 2 signature references · no test score 2 open questions
- GF Factory also written GFF Breitling, the Avenger and Superocean lines in particular · 2 signature references · no test score 4 open questions
- GM Factory also written GMF Rolex · 2 signature references · no test score 2 open questions
- JB Factory also written JBF Richard Mille, tourbillons in particular · Roger Dubuis · 2 signature references · no test score 4 open questions
- JJF Factory also written JF 4 brands · 2 signature references · no test score 4 open questions
- KV Factory also written KVF Richard Mille, across several references · 2 signature references · no test score 4 open questions
- MKS Factory also written MKSF 3 brands · 2 signature references · no test score 4 open questions
- OM Factory also written OMF 4 brands · 2 signature references · no test score 4 open questions
- PF Factory also written PFF Patek Philippe, the Nautilus line in particular · Roger Dubuis · 2 signature references · no test score 4 open questions
- PPF Factory Patek Philippe · 2 signature references · no test score 2 open questions
- RWF Rolex · 1 signature reference · RWI 2026 289/340 2 open questions
- UMI Factory also written UMIF Richard Mille · Patek Philippe · 2 signature references · no test score 4 open questions
- V6 Factory also written V6F Hublot, the Big Bang line in particular · IWC · 1 signature reference · no test score 4 open questions
- V7 Factory also written V7F IWC · 1 signature reference · no test score 3 open questions
- XF Factory also written XFF Zenith, the Pilot line in particular · Panerai Luminor · 2 signature references · no test score 3 open questions
- ZF Factory also written Z Factory 5 brands · 2 signature references · no test score 3 open questions
Reviewed 2026-10-01. 29 factory profiles and 1 brand page so far; the guides and the remaining brand pages follow the same format, and each one is published only when every statement on it has a source.