Sorry for my english and I apologize if this post is OT, I had no idea where to put it, Admin and moderators can move it. Well, yesterday I was in the company of a nice person but later discovered to be an official Rolex dealer. I will be past many times since its jewelry but, in all honesty, I did not know was on his property. So while we finished to talk about watches, and on the new design of the latest models by Rolex in Basel 2008, we came to talk at the world of replicas. He said that the only reps that can truly worry are those made by assembling pieces of broken watches, others do not say nothing and are too poor quality to fool someone. I told him that I had two watches to show him and immediately explained that they were reps. He asked me why? I replied that I was in love with this particular collector, not the genuine interests me but only reps. We live in a world that is becoming increasingly sterile. Dominated by patents and trademarks for which there is no longer even a real competition. The world of replicas is also a mental challenge to the monopoly of fantasy on ideas. Not everything is so, there is a lot lawlessness but also passion. Many people in this hobby see things that go beyond the simple purchase of a watch, each has his own idea. Mine is that there are so many things, even behind the lawlessness and trade, personal stories of each member here who has gone beyond the watches. Once in jewelry, I showed to him the first, while he examined Graham Chronofighter very carefully still be repeated this is true, you want to play with me, remained motionless for a while when he discovered that the chrono are working. When I asked him to turn off the light and see the dial in the dark, continued to repeat that not be a fake. When I showed the last Rolex, it seemed to me that his certainties had collapsed. Did not believe his eyes, said there are some differences but this fake is really good, really good. So we continued to talk about the watch and an strange world of reps. So time after time I was convinced that perhaps the modding is just something extra when a piece is really good. Thanks RWG and regards.
Mahler