What time is it? Watches and horology

Nobody ever comments on my Rolex, which is how I like it, it's why my dad bought this one, to fly "under the radar", and since he gave it to me I've had the same experience. Until I was on holiday in America and a guy who was working at Trader Joe's mentioned it straight away. I was just trying to find out where to get children's cartons of juice and this guy was going nuts for the "patina on the dial". I don't know how to deal with people who are over enthusiastically gushing like, "I see a guy who comes in here with a few different APs but none of them are as nice as that. That's real class right there!" I just had to say thanks and kind of shuffle off.

I kind of did the same to a flight attendant on the way home though who was wearing a Vacheron. I feel guilty, but I was initially suspicious it was fake, who knows. I just said it was a nice watch and you don't see many Vacheron at all, so what a treat, and he just smiled at me knowingly while giving me extra miniature bottles of gin and saying, "here's another treat for spotting it."