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You can't afford it, so you're bitching about it.

In Response To: Rolex Vs Omega the eternal question ()

Just kidding! :-)

Apart from price/performance, my main problem with Rolex is also an image problem, but on another level than yours. For some odd reason, people in Germany seem to have a hard time believing that anyone really buys that stuff, and so everytime they see a Rolex, they ask if it's fake or real. This would drive me nuts, so much is certain.

I was in a meeting with two guys (let's call them "A" and "B") who work for a client and noticed that "A" was wearing a Sea Dweller. After the meeting I said to "B", did you see his Rolex?, and he immediately responded Oh, he was wearing a Rolex? It's got to be fake. I had seen a watch yearbook on "A"'s desk, and I also had seen the HEV and no cyclops on the crystal, so I was 100% sure that it was real.

This was baking "B"'s noodle so much (for several weeks!) that it developed into some kind of running gag and he finally called "A" on the phone to ask if it was indeed real.

Must be a specific German obsession with fake and/or expensive watches, I think. :-( Or is it the same in other parts of the world?

-hacmac