Like this is a surprise.

The Patek Philippe wristwatch that White House party crasher Tareq Salahi turned over to pay off his lawn-care bills is as phony as his state-dinner invitation.

Two jewelers told the Warren County General District Court in Virginia that Salahi's supposedly valuable timepiece was a knockoff.

"You can tell by looking at the back of the watch. It's see-through. I could tell by the grade of the movement that it isn't a genuine watch," said Ray Cosey of R.E. Jewelers Watch & Clock, according to the Warren County Report newspaper.

"You can buy them on the streets of New York for a little bit of nothing," he said.

Cosey estimated the watch was worth $100, at most.

Salahi, a 41-year-old vineyard owner with reality-TV aspirations, along with his equally media-hungry wife, Michaele, 44, crashed President Obama's first state dinner on Nov. 24.

The ensuing media scrutiny revealed a trail

Source: New York Post