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I agree. I just wouldn't enjoy it. However, I know people who wear them all the time...
"it looks the same, it tells the time accurately and cost a tenner! Why would would bother paying for an original?!".
There are loads of reasons why I wouldn't buy a fake, but none that the type of people alluded to above would value. I think attitudes towards these sorts of things, where the craft and skill involved is virtually abstract given that it's out of sight and doesn't make it perform any better than a cheap quartz watch, are interesting. Where do you draw the line?
For instance, I wouldn't shop in, say, Topman for similar reasons. I don't want to pay for or fund the mass production of poorly manufactured goods that copy indiscriminately from 'proper' designers, made in anonymous factories in far away places and sold by unscrupulous people. Hmm.
Shall we go back to nice pictures of watches?