Your thoughts on fake watches
Discussion
sidicks said:
TiggerBits said:
This section is a watch forum, I have no interest in the other parts of the site, as my favourite brand of car is Kia, and I am sure you wouldn't appreciate that either. I presume your idea of a forum is somewhere people can just agree with each other.
My idea of a decent forum is where people don’t pretend they know much more than they actually do and do respect the experts who can offer a lot of knowledge.Rather than those who join purely to troll, when they have a very limited understanding of the subject they are talking about...
Edited by andy.mod on Saturday 28th April 20:50
Absolutely not for me.
The closest I have come to this is a replacement rubber Dunlop tread strap for my Chopard Mille Miglia (looks & feels identical, correct branding but lacks the chocolate/vanilla smell) & a Monaco leather strap.
Again, correct branding, bought from a Tag store but I’ve never seen one with carbon effect leather before or since.
The closest I have come to this is a replacement rubber Dunlop tread strap for my Chopard Mille Miglia (looks & feels identical, correct branding but lacks the chocolate/vanilla smell) & a Monaco leather strap.
Again, correct branding, bought from a Tag store but I’ve never seen one with carbon effect leather before or since.
davek_964 said:
TiggerBits said:
davek_964 said:
I think it was on another thread, but somebody asked why you're even on the forum. It's primarily a car forum but you only ever seem to post here - and even then, you seem intent on posting contentious issues, and even repeat similar threads.
I never saw an answer.
You seem to object to being called a troll, and yet you've joined a car forum where you only ever post on the watch section, and even then only subjects that would obviously cause debate.
Why are you here? Think you said you're retired - is it really that boring? You remind me of the recently banned Yipper who's only contributions were to cause arguments - although he posted in more areas than you, but fortunately got banned in the end.
This section is a watch forum, I have no interest in the other parts of the site, as my favourite brand of car is Kia, and I am sure you wouldn't appreciate that either. I presume your idea of a forum is somewhere people can just agree with each other, whilst doing some ar5e wiping. I never saw an answer.
You seem to object to being called a troll, and yet you've joined a car forum where you only ever post on the watch section, and even then only subjects that would obviously cause debate.
Why are you here? Think you said you're retired - is it really that boring? You remind me of the recently banned Yipper who's only contributions were to cause arguments - although he posted in more areas than you, but fortunately got banned in the end.
There are dedicated watch forums, so it seems curious that you join a car forum just to post on the watch section. But each to their own.
You - and Yipper - are the reason I'm disappointed there is no Ignore list. You add no value.
Edited by andy.mod on Saturday 28th April 20:51
davek_964 said:
TiggerBits said:
davek_964 said:
I think it was on another thread, but somebody asked why you're even on the forum. It's primarily a car forum but you only ever seem to post here - and even then, you seem intent on posting contentious issues, and even repeat similar threads.
I never saw an answer.
You seem to object to being called a troll, and yet you've joined a car forum where you only ever post on the watch section, and even then only subjects that would obviously cause debate.
Why are you here? Think you said you're retired - is it really that boring? You remind me of the recently banned Yipper who's only contributions were to cause arguments - although he posted in more areas than you, but fortunately got banned in the end.
This section is a watch forum, I have no interest in the other parts of the site, as my favourite brand of car is Kia, and I am sure you wouldn't appreciate that either. I presume your idea of a forum is somewhere people can just agree with each other. I never saw an answer.
You seem to object to being called a troll, and yet you've joined a car forum where you only ever post on the watch section, and even then only subjects that would obviously cause debate.
Why are you here? Think you said you're retired - is it really that boring? You remind me of the recently banned Yipper who's only contributions were to cause arguments - although he posted in more areas than you, but fortunately got banned in the end.
There are dedicated watch forums, so it seems curious that you join a car forum just to post on the watch section. But each to their own.
You - and Yipper - are the reason I'm disappointed there is no Ignore list. You add no value.
ETA : Ah, now I get it. You have joined other forums. But you've been banned from them.
Edited by davek_964 on Thursday 26th April 17:59
Edited by andy.mod on Saturday 28th April 20:51
Sa Calobra said:
Wearing a fake anything is admitting to yourself that you've failed on many levels in life.
For work I wear Momentum or GShocks to avoid damaging a decent watch. I wouldn't wear a £50 fake.
0% finance is freely available and a decent watch doesn't lose all it's value so why bother with fakes?
I bought a fake Patek a while back to see if I liked it - I did. I then bought the real thing.For work I wear Momentum or GShocks to avoid damaging a decent watch. I wouldn't wear a £50 fake.
0% finance is freely available and a decent watch doesn't lose all it's value so why bother with fakes?
A fake can be useful to trial a watch, which is what I did.
In terms of owning one and kidding yourself (and others) that it's real, would be a bit sad. Perhaps even more sad to call it a 'homage'. Purleeeease.
Zoon said:
I disagree, I felt the pressed steel clasps really let Rolex down, you pay upwards of 5k for a watch and parts of the clasp are no better than a cheap Seiko.
Doing their job, in a similar way a cheap quartz will tell the time.
Except when they had their pressed clasps a Sub wasn't £5k.Doing their job, in a similar way a cheap quartz will tell the time.
sidicks said:
davek_964 said:
Now you're just being unfair. This is a car forum and at no point has he pretended to know anything about cars
But if he’s joined a car forum and knows nothing about cars, and posts on the watch sub-forum despite knowing very little about watches, why is he here?!This is the watch forum of Pistonheads so why shouldn't he post?
If you don't like, don't read and don't comment.
NDA said:
Sa Calobra said:
Wearing a fake anything is admitting to yourself that you've failed on many levels in life.
For work I wear Momentum or GShocks to avoid damaging a decent watch. I wouldn't wear a £50 fake.
0% finance is freely available and a decent watch doesn't lose all it's value so why bother with fakes?
I bought a fake Patek a while back to see if I liked it - I did. I then bought the real thing.For work I wear Momentum or GShocks to avoid damaging a decent watch. I wouldn't wear a £50 fake.
0% finance is freely available and a decent watch doesn't lose all it's value so why bother with fakes?
A fake can be useful to trial a watch, which is what I did.
In terms of owning one and kidding yourself (and others) that it's real, would be a bit sad. Perhaps even more sad to call it a 'homage'. Purleeeease.
I fancied a Rolex Pro Hunter or similar. But I wasn't sure I'd wear it enough. So I bought a Steinhart Black Ocean (same look, different label). I liked it but found I was only wearing it a few days a year. Decided against the Pro Hunter but kept the Steinhart for the few occasions I fancy wearing it.
Wear a JLC Squadra Reverso most of the time.
I wanted I real nice watch couldn’t really justify new price on some of the omegas so just looked and found a really nice used one . Plenty of good second hand dealers around .
Nice watches are available in all price brackets for sure . The fake ones not so good as the saying goes fell apart like a cheap watch which all fakes do
Nice watches are available in all price brackets for sure . The fake ones not so good as the saying goes fell apart like a cheap watch which all fakes do
t. Rolex is the pinnacle of watchmaking and all fake watches just fall a part.Gassing Station | Watches | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff