when you buy luxury products, you dont pay for the material for most of part. First of all, no rep can be same quality as a gen even as material, second and most importantly, replica manufacturers didnt create any brand value, they didnt design their own product, they didnt do any kind of marketing, they dont use costy swiss watchmakers, they dont have any kind of heritage nor didnt invent or achieved anything horological, they dont sell thru fancy jewelery dealer stores at hearts of major cities. it costs maybe only 200usd to make a gen rolex submariner but still 7k sale price is justified, as any luxury product. you can tell time just as good or even better with a swatch but its not luxury. this is as simple as it gets. replicas are just shadow of whats real