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If you're so into Rolex but don't know where the money actually goes, why not get a well made homage?
Get a quality watch with the looks? How 'bout a Steinhart Ocean One? Steinhart has cracking quality (I know i know...) It looks the part too...
Heres a comparison of 3 watches... Inc rolex sub. Squale and Steinhart.
ChainBreaker-
A homage is neither one thing nor the other. I actually did buy a Rolex 15 years ago - a steel sub - to see what all the fuss was about, and was underwhelmed. As I said upthread, it's basically a £1k watch, the other £6k goes to making some rich Swiss richer, it goes to the poor starving Grand Prix drivers and tennis champions, to GQ magazine, Wimbledon tennis club, to the dealers with their expensive boutiques, etc. ad infinitum. You have to be a sucker to be buy one, and to be oblivious to the gap betwen rich and poor. Someone with low emotional intelligence. I felt a bit of a twat wearing it. These days I've got a fake gold Sub, which gives me more pleasure then the genuine steel one ever could. It undermines the whole sordid marketing mutual masturbation machine. When people notice it I always tell them it's a fake and give them my thoughts. Living in Brixton I get a mix of reactions. Lots of people here are socialists and environmentalists. Others are all about buying some self worth with a Rolex and a Mercedes. If someone did bring out the Trees version of a CWC which I suggested upthread I reckon it might get a few sales here. What do you reckon?
nick_h.
A fake watch dealer in China told me another factory was raided in January, and some of the staff are likely to be jailed. Apparently some of the dealers already have staff in in prison with long sentences.