have you ever wanted a set of ccw classics but not multipiece...

[Vovchandr]

@Ollie

All reasoning aside, if you’d rather rock a fake Rolex, you’d rather rock a fake Rolex. Simple as that. $50 vs. $5,000. Is the extra $4,950 a measurable difference? Different strokes for different folks. Some people have standards and pride in the products they purchase, others just care they have a watch. Some care they have a watch that appears to be of higher quality then it is. Others like their fake watch (see what I did there?) because it looks good and is inexpensive and have no knowledge or care about what a real Rolex is. Some people just want a watch that tells the time. And some people care about who made the watch and the time and passion that went into it. Some people like the novelty of an authentic watch and don’t have a single other reason.

Personally, I’d rather not have a watch if it’s fake. I can already see the responses to this (“but you need wheels, you don’t need a watch!”) and the parallels people will try to disprove.

Also, there are MANY wheels that are “replicated”, or I should say inspired rather, by legitimate companies. Most of the time these are discontinued wheels or mag race wheels that cannot be run on the street. They are NOT wheels replicated just to be made in a significantly cheaper way in a 1pc variation. This part does turn into a gray area because there are only so many ways to design a basic mesh wheel but the point is quality is not sacrificed.

At the end of the day it all depends on your personal preferences and who you want to support. I like to support the dudes who have a passion in the same things I do and want to make a respectable and quality product they can stand behind. Other people support the people who see a niche in the market to profit off selling cheap products by stealing popular designs from reputable companies and altering them enough to not infringe on copyrights.

I’m fine with people buying Rolex’s all they want.

It’s when he Rolex owners start telling me that a cheaper watch doesn’t track time and isn’t accurate when vast majority of them are I have a problem.

When you buy a Rolex you don’t pay for time keeping, you pay extra for heritage, prestige, quality, hand making, smooth second hand arm, value etc.

But owning a $5000 watch and looking down on people buying $100 watches that just care to know what time it is, because they don’t own a Rolex is ridiculous.

Like you said, different strokes for different folks. Some people just want a good looking wheel that will roll on the road but don’t want to pay for prestige, fine machining, heritage, aircraft grade bolts etc. Just the wheels.