Dexter Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 Never been called out, but I also only wear the "ultimate" reps. Plus most people I work with don't know all that much about watches. The ones that do don't really wear my style of watches. They know more about Rolex and some of the smaller Breitlings. Nothing much about my Breitling SA or my Omega PO 45.5mm. It think it would be really entertaining if somebody said I was wearing a rep. I'd ask them to tell me what brought them to that conclusion. They would ask me to take off the watch - I'd say no. Why should I take off the watch for you to inspect if you could already "tell" it was a fake. They'd go floundering and flopping around, and then I'd take it off, and hand it over. And they probably won't find squat. If they do I'd just say "good eye" and talk some watches! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronoluvvv Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 yet to happen most folk around me don't care or can't tell ... life is too busy i guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxrAndy Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 All the people i work with know i wear and collect reps so even when i am wearing a gen they assume it is a rep, wors feeling is when i am waering something i have made my self like my observer/pilot watch and they still think it is a rep, ok thye are half right as most pilots watches based on a couple of WW2 designs but they are not reps like we collect here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a german in denmark Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 I got called out once, in a supermarket (of all places). "Is that a Fiddy, wow" from a guy waring a gen Anonimo. "Yeah" I said, "I made the strap myself"... I work with a very nice Swiss guy from Geneva, see him every day. He does se my watches (that I change ever so frequently), but he never made any comments. He either doesn't know about watches or he is too shy to ask... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seroberts Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 The only time anyone said anything, a guy at work said something about my fake Rolex to one of my coworkers............the funny thing is I only wear my GEN to work I'm sure you all know what kind of person I'm talking about .....He also refured to my C2S Porsche as a cheap Volkswagen What A Guy! Cheers, Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff g Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 Never. I am old. No one cares. I sometimes wonder if anyone ever even notices what watch I am wearing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chubbchubb Posted November 30, 2008 Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 Never. The amount of knowledge about watches in the wild is widely overestimated. None of my many gen-wearing friends could tell a quality rep from a gen. Having said that, if you are a teenager or a bum wearing a ROO, people might start thinking that somethings fishy just as they would if your were driving a Porsche.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadtorrent Posted November 30, 2008 Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 yet to happen most folk around me don't care or can't tell ... life is too busy i guess It's true. The couple that do are excited about watches in general...own gens and want to get into reps knowing that I do both. That is what is nice about RWG, that you can take a relatively obscure hobby (meaning the PASSION for watches, rare collectibles, vintages, vintagizing, modding, tinkering, accuracy, ephemera, etc vs. just being able to buy what you want) and share it with piles of like-minded folks from noobs with an initial interest, to veterans with heaps of experience and knowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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