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Rolex Vs Omega the eternal question

Sorry dear fellow watch lovers to bring the debate once again to the table. But here are a few thoughts I would like to have feedback on.

I am 31 and I have beeen wearing the same SEIKO chronograph for the last 13 years. In terms of value for money, accuracy and durability nothing can beat this watch I believe: I wear it everyday, I sleep with it, I dive with it...In one word it never leaves my wrist.

But recently I felt like something new, like a real watch (i.e a mechanical movement not a quartz). I have done a lot of reasearch with my friends and on the internet. The choices in the end lied between A Jaeger Le Coultre, a Rolex datejust and an Omega Aqua Terra.

Here is why I will NOT buy a rolex.

Rolex are fantastic wacthes nobody can deny this: first wacth to be on top of Everest, ideal as everyday wacth, good consitency of service worlwide, beautiful look and movement, good durability and also good resell value.

BUT I really think that Rolex has fallen victim of its own success. Everybody wants one and it is bought today by a majority of people (not everbody, I do not want to offend anybody here in this forum who is obvioulsy like me a watch nerd and that bought his Rolex for what I would call the good reasons) who simply wants to show their status, that what to show that they have money.

Rolex is not a choice I believe if you like understatement. I do not want to be associated with all of these people that just care about impressing other people. Who wears Rolex today in a lot of cases, not CEOs, not public figures but middle managers, yuppies, chinese business men with a taste for glitter, sales people in need of recognition.

That why I do not feel like putting a Rolex on my wrist that is why I will go for the AT of the JLC master reveil. They are as elegant if not more than the rolex theit mechanical movement is as good but I will not have to live with poeple looking at my wrist thinking: another flash pretentious young guy...

But after all, maybe I am completely wrong... Please let me know what do you think.