Members,
At what point do you feel as though your franken/super franken feels like genuine to you. I only ask because I have a 5513 that I built from the ground up with all gen parts excluding mid case and crown. In my mind it’s a gen as you can get without a proper serial midcase. I have a gen crown but haven’t installed it yet, and really don’t care to. But when I wear it I feel as though I’m wearing a genuine 5513.
Is that just me? I mean movement, dial. Hands, bracelet and crystal all gen. 95% is gen. But at the same time deep in my head I’m still longing for a complete genuine 5513. Maybe because morally I can’t sell it as gen if needed for emergency. But otherwise I feel that it is. What’s yalls thoughts? Where’s your line in the sand when you feel your watch feels gen to you? Parts wise....?
I started off my hobby in watches as a gen owner and sometime in 2010 I started dabbling in reps and then frankens before going back to gens.
I agree with what
Vicar69 said: if it’s not gen, it’s a rep and there are no two ways about it. I don’t know about other brands but for APs, frankens do not even begin to scratch the surface of the gen league. Nowhere close. And because it’s my favored brand to wear, only the gens will do. At no point when I owned AP frankens did I feel that they were gens or presented them as gens. But they were definitely fun novelty watches to wear and in this regard there was very little difference in wearing frankens and stock reps for me, compared with wearing the gens. I also agree with what
mech500 said, that for some occasions, gens may not be suitable and for those, I’ll now rather go bare wristed than wear a rep. I do not own a rep at all nor will I wear one but I can fully appreciate and understand the novelty appeal of replica watches.
Around me, guys who wear reps usually own gens but prefer to don their reps for the knock arounds. To each his own but having walked both sides of the lines, I will like to say that no reps can cross the “gen feel” line if you know where to look (and eventually you always will).
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