Where do YOU stand?

[lumberger]

I am enjoying this relatively new hobby of ours...I really am. But as I continue further down the darkened path I am confronted with something that I think we have all experienced. So I want to know your thoughts on this critical Scenario.

Inevitably, someone who you do not know will catch you when you least expect it and say "that's a nice watch! Where did you get it?".

So it quickly becomes gut check time. What do you do? Choose from the following responses:

A. It's a Panerai. I got it as a gift.
B. It's a fake Panerai. I spent hours and hours on the web sourcing it.
C. If you have to ask, you won't understand.
D. It's a Timex.

The bottom line is, where do you stand? Do you fess up and tell the truth up front or do you walk down the dark side till the bitter end and stick to your gen story?

A penny for your thoughts.

 

[DocEdelschick]

I try to sit between A and B. most people who don't know watches have never heard of Panerai so it doesn't matter. If that the case, the Nash nothing. I they know it and you want to show off say A. I tend to be honest and say that it's a rep, but even showing them to people they have no idea which is which.

 

[greecean]

Do you fess up and tell the truth up front or do you walk down the dark side till the bitter end and stick to your gen story?

Depends who it is.

For mates, i tell them right away its a rep.

For others it depends how deeply i think they will question it: I could say "yes, its a rolex" and that would be the end of it, or others could want to see it etc, at which point i would consider fessing up

 

[sumiter7]

Depends how the person sounds. If that person asks as if he doubts that my watch is a fake, I don't tend to tell the truth; if the question is because he is genuinely interested, I might just tell the person.
Also, it really depends who's asking the question.
For an acquaintance, my initial answer would be "gift", or "where do you think?"
If I'm pressed further, I think the situation dictates where it goes after that.

 

[Z3BR4]

Wedding/college graduation gift..

Then if they point out it is fake you can say.. I really have no clue, it tells time an I like it and that is good enough for me!

Or..


If this is someone who sees you wearing different watches of that stature all the time or they know watches.. You can tell them its a replica you purchased online. Maybe you thought you were getting a good deal? Turned out to be fake and realized it's a better value then the real thing?

I dunno, I never fully disclose unless it is a necessity. Most people aren't ballsy enough to ask. The ones that are, are usually pricks anyhow and only doing it to make themselves feel better. I never flat out lie and say its real, but I leave it open enough that assumptions can be made one way or the other

 

[santre22]

D absolutely D!

 

[JB123]

Usually I don't get asked where i got it.
For me it goes like this.
"Nice watch."
"thanks it's a panerai, it doesn't take batteries."
usually by this point they are blown away
"WHAT?!?! how does it work then."
Take it off and explain the spring and power reserve, show how the actually winding store the energy."
"Woa thats sick!"

and thats how it usually goes for me. If they are someone I know and they ask more I'll tell them it is a 300 dollar rep of a 6,000 dollar watch. They usually can't fathom spending 300 on a watch let alone 6,000

 

[smokiedabong]

Usually I don't get asked where i got it.
For me it goes like this.
"Nice watch."
"thanks it's a panerai, it doesn't take batteries."
usually by this point they are blown away
"WHAT?!?! how does it work then."
Take it off and explain the spring and power reserve, show how the actually winding store the energy."
"Woa thats sick!"

and thats how it usually goes for me. If they are someone I know and they ask more I'll tell them it is a 300 dollar rep of a 6,000 dollar watch. They usually can't fathom spending 300 on a watch let alone 6,000

So true, most of the people are clueless when it comes to watches or they just simply don't care. I work with people with pretty high income, some drive $100.000 cars and still think a $200 Bulova is the shit.
The other day I was showing the case back display of a 111 to some guy and after a while he asked me where the battery goes? icard:
Never got asked where I got my watch from yet, but if they ask I'm gonna tell them from Toro and if they ask who that is I'll tell them they lived for nothing and walk away.

 

[If you see Kay]

hehhh hehh. I just had conversation in a meeting where someone said to me: Nice watch, what is it?" I just said, "oh, it's an Omega"

I asked him about his and his was a Tissot Chrono, and then this lady in the meeting chimes in about hers and about not replacing the batteries and just getting another watch instead, and then I start to shake my head and roll my eyes slowly and then blurt out with an air of smugness: "Mine doesn't take batteries" I just shake my wrist a few times to show her.

She was blown away at first. I'm still shaking my head on the inside....

but to answer this time and time again asked question about where you got it, I tell the truth:

"I am on a high end watch forum where we talk about trade watches. I got it from someone who was selling it"

Or: " I sold my Rolex for this"

 

[jesseharmon81]

^^^ great response, Im on a watch forum and I sold my xxxxxxxx for this.

I swap out watches all the time and have used this response when someone says, Jesse, you got another watch (which is usually the wife)


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[bradj]

First thing I think when someone says my $10k watch was a gift is FAKE. But I never ask people where they get their watches because... who gives a shit where they got it.

People I know I tell its a rep. It would be to hard to explain why I have $100,000 of watches if I pretended they were real. Plus I don't like lying to people I know.

 

[Mr. Pap]

This is what happened to me today. I am out gathering some papers for the work and i enter an office where the pretty lady behind the desk wears a pam, yeah a pam with a bracelet!

I am absolutely impressed cause its the first time i see a lady with a pam, a gen one also!

So while she is trying to find the papers, i cant stop myself complimenting the watch. By the way i am wearing my rep 111.

me: Very nice watch!
she: Thank you very much, its my husband's present. I see you have one too.
me: Yes, i love panerais! Although mine is hand wind. (Hers was an automatic with date)
she: Hand wind? What do you mean?

Do i have to continue or i made my point?

 

[sumiter7]

This is what happened to me today. I am out gathering some papers for the work and i enter an office where the pretty lady behind the desk wears a pam, yeah a pam with a bracelet!

I am absolutely impressed cause its the first time i see a lady with a pam, a gen one also!

So while she is trying to find the papers, i cant stop myself complimenting the watch. By the way i am wearing my rep 111.

me: Very nice watch!
she: Thank you very much, its my husband's present. I see you have one too.
me: Yes, i love panerais! Although mine is hand wind. (Hers was an automatic with date)
she: Hand wind? What do you mean?

Do i have to continue or i made my point?

Because you said it was a pretty lady, I'd love to hear more with pics!

 

[davylloyd]

I never try to pass off my reps as anything else, even to people who know nothing about them, I don't see any value in it at all. By the same token, I don't volunteer the information that it's a rep.

On the rare occasions when somebody has complimented me on a watch, I just say "Thanks very much, are you interested in watches?", and let the conversation take it's course.

 

[revhrd]

This is what happened to me today. I am out gathering some papers for the work and i enter an office where the pretty lady behind the desk wears a pam, yeah a pam with a bracelet!

I am absolutely impressed cause its the first time i see a lady with a pam, a gen one also!

So while she is trying to find the papers, i cant stop myself complimenting the watch. By the way i am wearing my rep 111.

me: Very nice watch!
she: Thank you very much, its my husband's present. I see you have one too.
me: Yes, i love panerais! Although mine is hand wind. (Hers was an automatic with date)
she: Hand wind? What do you mean?

Do i have to continue or i made my point?

:ttiwwop:

Choose two with open minded people even if they are not close, so long as they seem to get the point. Otherwise as someone else here said if asked on the realness of it... Sure it's real, it really tells time

 

[greecean]

^^^ great response, Im on a watch forum and I sold my xxxxxxxx for this.

soul? :biglaugh:

 

[greecean]

Because you said it was a pretty lady, I'd love to hear more with pics!

+1

I want to know if she found out how to "hand wind" :lol1:

 

[lumberger]

This is great. I love reading all of your responses. I think I side with being straight up with friends and family, but a little more reserved with strangers.

I was once at a national sales meeting with my company, wearing my rep panerai, and as it turns out, the hottest chick in the entire place was wearing a gorgeous gen pan. I asked her about it at one of the evening events and you should have seen the freakin look on her face. It was like I asked her to let me throw it in her out back behind the dumpster. What a bitch! That's how I knew it was the real thing. Only a first class bitch could afford or have the sugar daddy to afford it. But I'm not bitter about it. Nope. Not bitter at all.

 

[drbollocko]

"I took it off a dead man" is always a good response.

Most always would say it's a rep, nobody really notices any watches I have. In some cases it's not lying by saying "I built it!" or "It's a custom build".

 

[nielsen]

I say: "I did ten years in the slammer for this".....

No, actually, nine out of ten times I've immediately explained what it is: a really good rep of a gorgeous original, and that the rep hobby allows me to have a number of different watches to suit my mood rather than one or two expensive genuines. Certainly all my friends know I collect reps. To the odd stranger who has noticed I've just said 'thank you' and left it at that.