Crime Crackdown (2021)

Crime Crackdown

Crime Crackdown (扫黑风暴) is a 28-episode Chinese crime drama that premiered on Dragon Television and Beijing TV on August 9, 2021, dramatizing a national anti-gang task force's campaign against organized crime and its political protection network in the fictional city of Lüteng. Sun Honglei stars as Li Chengyang, a framed former deputy criminal-investigation captain who helps bring down the syndicates on his release, opposite Jiang Shuying's undercover officer Huang Xi and Sun Hao as the self-serving, corrupt station chief Hu Xiaowei. Based on several real cases that shook China in the 2010s, the series drew more than three billion plays on Tencent Video shortly after its premiere. (Wikipedia)

Watches

Patek Philippe (fake)

Worn by Sun Honglei as Li Chengyang. The drama identifies this watch as a counterfeit, not a real Patek Philippe. xbiao.com states plainly the piece "乃假表" (is a fake watch): an early shot shows only the buckle, styled after Patek Philippe's "lantern"-shaped clasp, but a later, slightly clearer shot reveals a window at 6 o'clock exposing an exposed balance wheel behind a horizontal metal bridge, dressed up to read as a tourbillon. The source explains that genuine tourbillons were historically difficult for counterfeiters to fake, so counterfeit movement makers instead expose an ordinary balance wheel at 6 o'clock and market it as a "flying wheel," a configuration Patek Philippe has never produced. The same source notes a second character, Zheng Yihong (played, in real life, by Sun Honglei's wife Wang Junyi), wears an equally indistinct watch with the same telltale 6 o'clock window. (Xbiao)

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Panerai Luminor

Worn by Jiang Shuying as Huang Xi. Huang Xi wears an analog watch from a brand xbiao.com names as "ECHO," styled after Panerai's cushion-cased, crown-guard silhouette; the source could not otherwise identify the brand or model despite searching, and treats it as a prop the production sourced casually rather than a documented product. "ECHO" is not a real Panerai sub-line or a licensed collaboration, and no specific Panerai reference is claimed; this is recorded as a low-confidence, real-adjacent appearance of the Luminor design language rather than any exact Panerai model. Separately, in the same undercover sequence, Huang Xi also wears a Huawei Band B5 fitted by the production with a working spy camera at 6 o'clock, which xbiao.com is careful to note is not a functioning camera on the real product. (Xbiao)

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Rolex Day-Date 128238

xbiao.com identifies the gang-adjacent businessman "Dajiang"'s watch as this solid yellow-gold Day-Date 36, ref. 128238, in its diamond hour-marker configuration. Single-sourced, medium confidence. (Xbiao)

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Rolex Daytona 116515LN

Demolition-company boss Chen Jianbo wears this Everose-gold Cosmograph Daytona, ref. 116515LN, in its high-contrast ivory "panda" dial configuration, per xbiao.com, which adds dryly that the character's stated net worth would suggest a flashier choice than a comparatively common reference. Single-sourced, medium confidence. (Xbiao)

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Longines Master Collection

Worn by Sun Hao as Hu Xiaowei. Corrupt station chief Hu Xiaowei wears a Longines Master Collection chronograph in a white dial, Arabic numerals, and a three-register layout, per xbiao.com, which also calls out a distinctive buckle visible in one shot. No reference number is given. Single-sourced, low-medium confidence at model level. (Xbiao)

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Longines Master Collection

Deputy provincial governor Wang Zheng wears a different Longines Master Collection execution from Hu Xiaowei's: an eight-hand triple-calendar moonphase, which xbiao.com calls one of the line's best-selling configurations. No reference number is given, and the complication set (day, date, month, and moonphase, against Hu Xiaowei's plain three-register chronograph) is materially different enough to record as a distinct sighting on the same family page. Single-sourced, low-medium confidence at model level. (Xbiao)

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Omega De Ville Prestige 4574.31.00

District chief Dong Yao wears this older steel De Ville Prestige Co-Axial, ref. 4574.31.00, per xbiao.com, which observes the reference had already been out of production for roughly a decade by the time the drama aired. Single-sourced, medium confidence. (Xbiao)

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