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a fashion item
There are lots of fashion watches, though.
Buying one with a £ks-brand logo on the front clearly isn't just wanting a certain aesthetic. It's wanting to emulate and project a certain lifestyle. A bit like sharing a bottle of Champaign between you and 10 of you mates in a club.
@aggi - it may have been a pitch, but years ago a mate and his family were on holiday somewhere hot and yachty, and someone asked if he could show them some replica watches. They were all gobsmacked at the +€600 prices. He said a lot of people sailing bought exact copies of their real watches in case of damage.
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Buying one with a £ks-brand logo on the front clearly isn't just wanting a certain aesthetic. It's wanting to emulate and project a certain lifestyle. A bit like sharing a bottle of Champaign between you and 10 of you mates in a club.
At some point... it's starting to feel classist.
If someone wishes to buy a replica watch and indulge in their own fantasy that they're living a lifestyle... let them.
Velocio
I did say the opinion was controversial :)
For all the watches you see on the tube, in meeting rooms... a fair number of those are fake and if you ask you're probably going to be lied to.
And would a run a Hackintosh... yup, I did :) Though I hated MacOS so went back to Linux soon after.
Would I buy a replica... yup I would.
Where I wouldn't buy replica stuff is where it would matter, i.e. in engineering that protects my life, for example a car engine :) But a watch is not critical engineering for me, it's a fashion item. And where it isn't, radio-sync'd quartz with solar power is the way forward.