Homage Watches
Discussion
Always a controversial subject, but an interesting one all the same. There are some people who consider them little better than fakes, but I wouldn't agree. The world is full of homage consumables. Unless you are wearing a very expensive labelled shirt, the chances are you are wearing a homage, and the same can be said for hand bags, wedding dresses, right through to furniture. I fail to see why watches should be any different, but I know many Wis's would argue this point. I love the designs of various luxury watches, but can't justify the expense, so I don't see anything wrong with wearing something very similar, as long as it is pretending to be the real thing. Below is the watch I am wearing today, I wonder if you can guess what it looks like 
thebraketester said:
I’ve been looking at the Parnis IWC copy. Bit odd because if I could afford a real IWC I wouldn’t buy one, but the parnis at 80quid seems appealing for some reason. Would take the auto mechanism out of it though and have it as hand wind
It's a Panerai homage actually. The movement is a Seagull auto and works very well. Accurate and reliable. Not the quietest mechanism, but noisy either 
Sheetmaself said:
Hoofy said:
I have a handful of them. Don't see the problem. The Sub is a copy of the FF. 
This is what i was going to say, people get all pissy at homage watches up to a price point after a certain price point it stops being a fake or homage and becomes influenced by. 
I had a Parnis Panerai homage for a few months just to see how the size of it sat with me as i was considering a Panerai.
A decent watch for £60, had a proper power reserve indicator, kept excellent time and felt nice quality.
Wasn't for me, too big so sold it on.
Panerai now make a 38mm Luminor though
A decent watch for £60, had a proper power reserve indicator, kept excellent time and felt nice quality.
Wasn't for me, too big so sold it on.
Panerai now make a 38mm Luminor though
Edited by AmosMoses on Tuesday 20th February 08:55
TiggerBits said:
Can't quite see the name. If they are Steinhart (which is my guess) the spec is fantastic, and you should be proud to own such beautiful watches
Yep, Steinhart Ocean 39 Green and GMT-Ocean One. Very impressed overall, the green is definitely the favourite at the moment.Here it is with it's big brother:
utgjon said:
TiggerBits said:
Can't quite see the name. If they are Steinhart (which is my guess) the spec is fantastic, and you should be proud to own such beautiful watches
Yep, Steinhart Ocean 39 Green and GMT-Ocean One. Very impressed overall, the green is definitely the favourite at the moment.Here it is with it's big brother:
I've had my Ocean Red for a few years now. I did have an issue with gaining time and sent it back to them for a serivice, but they fixed it under warranty which impressed me enormously as I think it was outside the two years. I'd be happy to buy another from Gunther.
I've got my eye on a Nav B-Chrono 44 next.....
Ranger 6 said:
Lovely.
I've had my Ocean Red for a few years now. I did have an issue with gaining time and sent it back to them for a serivice, but they fixed it under warranty which impressed me enormously as I think it was outside the two years. I'd be happy to buy another from Gunther.
I've got my eye on a Nav B-Chrono 44 next.....
Good choice on the ocean Red and definitely go for the Nav-B! My ocean green is +4/5 seconds a day at the moment, which I'm happy with. I haven't taken it off my wrist long enough to test the GMT yet!I've had my Ocean Red for a few years now. I did have an issue with gaining time and sent it back to them for a serivice, but they fixed it under warranty which impressed me enormously as I think it was outside the two years. I'd be happy to buy another from Gunther.
I've got my eye on a Nav B-Chrono 44 next.....
I didn't deal direct with Steinhart as I was impatient, so went with Neil at Chronomaster. Safe to say, I'd happily deal with him again, service was impeccable.
I've owned a few homage watches in my time and I had a similar situation with all of them.. I personally felt embarrassed when someone would approach you and say 'Oh nice Panerai, what model is it, I love those watches, show me' etc. I would then stumble around trying to tell them it wasn't a real one.. but its not a 'fake' just a watch made to look like one and well... errrr... yeah.. I just can't afford one.
Sad, and I felt stupid that I let it get to me... but it did. So I stopped wearing them.
Sad, and I felt stupid that I let it get to me... but it did. So I stopped wearing them.
ReaperCushions said:
I've owned a few homage watches in my time and I had a similar situation with all of them.. I personally felt embarrassed when someone would approach you and say 'Oh nice Panerai, what model is it, I love those watches, show me' etc. I would then stumble around trying to tell them it wasn't a real one.. but its not a 'fake' just a watch made to look like one and well... errrr... yeah.. I just can't afford one.
Sad, and I felt stupid that I let it get to me... but it did. So I stopped wearing them.
Interesting, I can understand how that may occur. I don't know many other watch people, so haven't had that issue with the steinharts. It is, however, only fuelling the desire for a proper Sub, instead of curbing it! That was something I hadn't counted on.Sad, and I felt stupid that I let it get to me... but it did. So I stopped wearing them.
utgjon said:
ReaperCushions said:
I've owned a few homage watches in my time and I had a similar situation with all of them.. I personally felt embarrassed when someone would approach you and say 'Oh nice Panerai, what model is it, I love those watches, show me' etc. I would then stumble around trying to tell them it wasn't a real one.. but its not a 'fake' just a watch made to look like one and well... errrr... yeah.. I just can't afford one.
Sad, and I felt stupid that I let it get to me... but it did. So I stopped wearing them.
Interesting, I can understand how that may occur. I don't know many other watch people, so haven't had that issue with the steinharts. It is, however, only fuelling the desire for a proper Sub, instead of curbing it! That was something I hadn't counted on.Sad, and I felt stupid that I let it get to me... but it did. So I stopped wearing them.
The other thing that was interesting was I found I'd spend probably $1500 on the various homage watches (I bought maybe 7/8 of them in various guises).
I started to then think that $1500 was halfway to something quite nice (Tudor, Breitling, Oris, Omega, TAG etc...).
I am now suffering from the next layer up of the same issue. I have 3 nice watches (Tudor, Omega, and a Breitling) that cost around $10,000... that is a nice Rolex waiting to happen!
ReaperCushions said:
Yes, that is inevitable!
The other thing that was interesting was I found I'd spend probably $1500 on the various homage watches (I bought maybe 7/8 of them in various guises).
I started to then think that $1500 was halfway to something quite nice (Tudor, Breitling, Oris, Omega, TAG etc...).
I am now suffering from the next layer up of the same issue. I have 3 nice watches (Tudor, Omega, and a Breitling) that cost around $10,000... that is a nice Rolex waiting to happen!
Yup, in contrast, the Steinharts are £350 and £450. I already have the Omega, and the Sub is £6000... so quite a disparity!The other thing that was interesting was I found I'd spend probably $1500 on the various homage watches (I bought maybe 7/8 of them in various guises).
I started to then think that $1500 was halfway to something quite nice (Tudor, Breitling, Oris, Omega, TAG etc...).
I am now suffering from the next layer up of the same issue. I have 3 nice watches (Tudor, Omega, and a Breitling) that cost around $10,000... that is a nice Rolex waiting to happen!
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