Loupe

About

The counterfeit problem deserves better tools.

Counterfeit watches are a multi-billion-dollar industry, and the best fakes now survive a glance from a trained eye. The pre-owned market keeps growing; trust hasn't kept up.

Our mission

Make evidence-backed authentication accessible — to the collector buying their first serious watch, and to the trade moving hundreds a month. Verdicts should come with reasons, in plain language, grounded in verified references.

Why now

Replica factories iterate faster than ever, and photo-only opinion services haven't kept pace. We built Loupe around verified reference data and documented tells because that's what actually separates genuine from fake — details, checked systematically.

Where we are

Loupe is in private pilot. Screening now covers 18 brands — any brand can be submitted — with our deepest verified-reference corpus on Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet and Richard Mille, the most counterfeited high-value references.