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Regardless of real or fake... what's the point in wearing status symbols that say you have more money than sense? Do you get any real social gain from it? Emotional benefit? What do you imagine a Rolex says about you to yourself and to others?
"I have enough money that I don't have to care about making sense" is useful to express in some social situations. Even wearing the fake one that sharp people notice is fake can be a tool if you do it very carefully, in a group that will go "aha, not a bad fake rolex, this guy isn't an idiot with more money than sense, but understands the importance of appearing to be."
If it doesn't look like an existing model, it's probably very easy to spot. I like watches and I have seen some heinous crimes against horology with fake Rolex logos.
I don't really judge too hard over people wearing fakes but I do think it's tacky if one could have spent the same money on a nicer but more humble watch.
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Mechanical watches are a marvel in themselves. Outdates as fuck, but still a mechanical marvel. I wouldn't think ill of a person that is using them. Same as a person that slices hamon with yanagiba instead of deli slicer. Or one that likes to shoot with Luger P08 instead of glock 19.
Luger? Very cool, but from what I’ve seen gun mechanic enjoyers go for revolvers, with an appreciation of different “lockwork”. S&W, for example, even has a specialist gunsmith machining team named the Performance Center and markets firearms touched by their skill explicitly.
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