If you are upper middle class with a professional job, then people on your circles will have roliies and APs and others. They will know what is what. I was at the Starbucks the other day hanging out with locals in a big table, seven had rolies out of. nine people. And also people are not stupid if you driving a junker with watch cost 10 times your car, then it is obviously fake. And people at that social status level will look down for waiting a rep. So if you are in this category I would buy a rep that matches what I really can afford. Rolex, Panerai, omega and some Aps, etc are ok.... No RM or Patek for me. Lol
But if you are not in the upper middle class category, then people in your circles either don't even know what AP or Patek is, or they would not know the cost or what real Rollies looks like. So anything luxury you wear will be either not noticed or assumed to be fake. So doesn't matter what you wear at that point.
For example doesn't matter if the supermarket cashier has a submariner or a Richard Mill on. So at that point get whatever you want, doesn't matter.