This is soooo true..
Whenever I follow the heated discussions on rep flaws and how easy this or that rep could be identified as a fake I think the same thing:
If you are the kind of guy/gal who looks like they could afford to wear a gen and you wear your rep with selfconfidence, nobody, not even an AD will suspect your watch is a fake as the level of acuracy of most of the good quality reps that are sold these days is just amazing. If your 18 or 20 or get out of your rusty subcompact, that's a different story...as the picture just doesn't feel right. (Notwithstanding a couple of 20 something dot com millionaires... )
I've been addicted to watches for more than 30 years and I have quite an extensive collection. I never pass the window of a dealer without looking, I buy watch magazines and collect catalogues. I sometimes change my watch several times a day. Although I consider myself to be a watchoholic, I had never heard or read the word "rehaut" before stumbling upon my first Rep Forum early this year.
Before I absorbed all the information available on these Forums, I probably could not have spottet the watch that I am wearing today (TTK's Noobmariner) as being a fake and that is me, a watch-fan for most of my life...