yeah that's really the only thing I can attribute it to and you used the right term "Presence".. plus it's an AP not a Rolex or something which people would assume is fake to begin with
I guess not so many of us AP wearers out there
what's funny about this is the most recent compliment it got was from a restaurant my wife and i frequent, one day the owner who is this young woman who inherited the place and now runs it/works there said "I love your watch" after seating us.. in front of my wife too
so had to rub it in her face that the girl was hitting on me