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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?