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Re: Omega owners really want Rolex

In Response To: Re: Omega owners really want Rolex ()

: Just the other day I was checking out the watches being sold in this "street mall" near the office. Literally I saw hundreds of fake "Rolexes" being sold in stalls just outside legitimate Rolex stores. All models of "Rolexes" are available (DDs, DJs, Celinis, Daytonas etc. you name it)Some are pretty well made while others are very badly done. The point is, wearing a genuine Rolex may not be worthwhile. You spent megabucks on a genuine Rolex only to find out that every Tom, Dick and Harry wears one (a fake of course)and worse those wearing the counterfeits look more successful than you are! With so many fakes around, a genuine Rolex is no longer a badge of distiction announcing that "you have arrived"

Incidentally, of the hundreds of fake watches being sold in that place I saw a handful of "Pateks". And surprise, I saw just one fake Omega (no, no not the one on my wrist...) It's a poor copy of a Seamaster GMT, with a light blue face with no waves and with a "Rolex" type president's bracelet!(I saw only one. maybe they were thinking Omegas are not worth the trouble of faking?)

I got a quiet satisfaction that my watch is not "common" and the guys wearing them are a breed apart.

jalomega