Amen bro. I recently went to an AD to try on a 42mm. I have the CrPO 45 open case back and other than the liquidmetal mistake I can't tell the diff. Funny incident is that the two sales people I talked to were going crazy on my noob V2 PAM 111. One of them schooled me on the swan neck . Ha. Any how, even AD sales people don't notice what we abscess on.
There is a huge different from a AD sales person (any person that have sales skills that are hired there) that means they are mostly not very in to watches more than necessary to do their jobs.
A trained watchmaker for example on Omega that works with this watches daily and assemble bezels, dails, hands and have to know all the mechanics and visual properties of the parts will spot your BP CrPO 10 feets away.
Also if I worked in one of this places I wouldn't point out a rep if a customer was wearing it. Only if the customer asked specific if it was real. There are no reasons for a sale person to be rude and call out a rep specific not if its a omega AD an the customer wear a fake panerai.
As I actually worked in a swatch group AD with omega as top brand that means we did not sell Breguet and the top brands of swatch group. I oft got customers with fake Cartier and Breitling watches in the store, I told them politely that we don't have knowledge of this brand an can not make any repairs on them and I send them two blocks away to the Breitling, Rolex and Cartier AD.
But I can still give you that the BP CrPO is better than many other rep but it have a lots of flawes that are visible from distance when you have it on your wrist.
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