I have come over to the dark/light side (depending on your point of view) of gen watches. My interest is almost purely automatics and my collection is heavily biased towards military and divers; subs and sub derivatives are my weakness.

The reason for joining this forum is to get some guidance on buying decent reps particularly vintage sports Rolex. I am wearing a green sub (which i believe to be the real deal and paid accordingly) as I type but am seriously doubting the wisdom of paying for high end watches when decent reps can be found with perfectly respectable ETA's within.

Still struggling a little with the 'fake' label issue and all it entails but when the Swiss watch houses are inflating their prices so much I think their lack of respect deserves a little reciprocation.

You should see the amount of froth, venom and vitreolic posting goes on in the gen watch forums regarding rep watches. It is reading most of a 20+ page thread that lead me to this forum actually - luvin THAT irony!

thanks for listening,

See you on the forum.

dudsub