Where's Your Head At?: I'm Calling You Out

[repitup]

Okay Posh, here's something different which may appease your need to know. I think I may have nailed it but maybe I'm way off. I'll try to keep it short as I tend to 'get into stuff' a bit much sometimes.

People are pleasure seekers; we like what we like and seek it out in as many different ways/forms as there are people. Some ways are very simple - a walk through the park to small the smells, hear the birds, feel the sun on your face. Some are not so simple, like discovering new cures for disease. Whatever it is, the act of doing something brings pleasure.

Art is yet one of the many ways people find pleasure. To experience something that touches ones sense like nothing else - it 'speaks' to you - is very pleasurable. A person would necessarily seek out that same experience repeatedly over time to recreate those pleasurable feelings (get your minds out of the gutter, guys!) Say a person likes Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night, for example. Seeing that it's not possible to see the real one as we'd like, we buy a replica of the painting to enjoy at home at our leisure.

Now, does one buy a painting that's fashioned after/in the style of the real one but is noticeably off? Probably not. Does one contract a painter to paint one that's close - an homage - but again, isn't as impressionable as the real painting? Again, probably not, as neither of those elicits the same pleasure response as the gen. One goes out and buys a replica - a copy that looks exactly like the real thing!

Hence, the desire to own a (replica) watch that's exactly like the genuine article which brings pleasure to ones eye. I understand that a one-of-kind classic painting isn't the same as a watch but the concept is the same - a person seeks to satisfy their need for pleasure brought on by that particular form (a wrist watch).

The closer the copy is to the real thing, the greater the pleasure. I invite the poster who suggested that people who wear reps are 'trying to fool someone' and to 'get over it' to consider that there's more to it than that for at least some of us who choose to own very exact copies of haute horology time pieces. Are there people out there looking to fool people? Yes. Is that the sole/main reason everyone buys reps (and then attempts to modify them to be as close to the real thing as possible)? No.

I wear both. I enjoy both. I do, however, tend to only buy reps that closely approximate the real thing. It's all very personal - how we choose to enjoy what we enjoy. We do all seek pleasure, however.

Cheers,
Tom

[Posh]

Okay Posh, here's something different which may appease your need to know. I think I may have nailed it but maybe I'm way off. I'll try to keep it short as I tend to 'get into stuff' a bit much sometimes.

People are pleasure seekers; we like what we like and seek it out in as many different ways/forms as there are people. Some ways are very simple - a walk through the park to small the smells, hear the birds, feel the sun on your face. Some are not so simple, like discovering new cures for disease. Whatever it is, the act of doing something brings pleasure.

Art is yet one of the many ways people find pleasure. To experience something that touches ones sense like nothing else - it 'speaks' to you - is very pleasurable. A person would necessarily seek out that same experience repeatedly over time to recreate those pleasurable feelings (get your minds out of the gutter, guys!) Say a person likes Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night, for example. Seeing that it's not possible to see the real one as we'd like, we buy a replica of the painting to enjoy at home at our leisure.

Now, does one buy a painting that's fashioned after/in the style of the real one but is noticeably off? Probably not. Does one contract a painter to paint one that's close - an homage - but again, isn't as impressionable as the real painting? Again, probably not, as neither of those elicits the same pleasure response as the gen. One goes out and buys a replica - a copy that looks exactly like the real thing!

Hence, the desire to own a (replica) watch that's exactly like the genuine article which brings pleasure to ones eye. I understand that a one-of-kind classic painting isn't the same as a watch but the concept is the same - a person seeks to satisfy their need for pleasure brought on by that particular form (a wrist watch).

The closer the copy is to the real thing, the greater the pleasure. I invite the poster who suggested that people who wear reps are 'trying to fool someone' and to 'get over it' to consider that there's more to it than that for at least some of us who choose to own very exact copies of haute horology time pieces. Are there people out there looking to fool people? Yes. Is that the sole/main reason everyone buys reps (and then attempts to modify them to be as close to the real thing as possible)? No.

I wear both. I enjoy both. I do, however, tend to only buy reps that closely approximate the real thing. It's all very personal - how we choose to enjoy what we enjoy. We do all seek pleasure, however.

Cheers,
Tom

Oh, this is interesting! I seriously had never considered this aspect of the whole buying fake lux goods thing. I am okay with a well-made fantasy bag (or watch in this case) but I can totally see someone else deriving joy from something that gets very close to the gen item, maybe only getting joy from the rep simply for that reason. Something that's 80% won't do for them. Thanks for enlightening me on this!

[JamDot]

Okay Posh, here's something different which may appease your need to know. I think I may have nailed it but maybe I'm way off. I'll try to keep it short as I tend to 'get into stuff' a bit much sometimes.

People are pleasure seekers; we like what we like and seek it out in as many different ways/forms as there are people. Some ways are very simple - a walk through the park to small the smells, hear the birds, feel the sun on your face. Some are not so simple, like discovering new cures for disease. Whatever it is, the act of doing something brings pleasure.

Art is yet one of the many ways people find pleasure. To experience something that touches ones sense like nothing else - it 'speaks' to you - is very pleasurable. A person would necessarily seek out that same experience repeatedly over time to recreate those pleasurable feelings (get your minds out of the gutter, guys!) Say a person likes Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night, for example. Seeing that it's not possible to see the real one as we'd like, we buy a replica of the painting to enjoy at home at our leisure.

Now, does one buy a painting that's fashioned after/in the style of the real one but is noticeably off? Probably not. Does one contract a painter to paint one that's close - an homage - but again, isn't as impressionable as the real painting? Again, probably not, as neither of those elicits the same pleasure response as the gen. One goes out and buys a replica - a copy that looks exactly like the real thing!

Hence, the desire to own a (replica) watch that's exactly like the genuine article which brings pleasure to ones eye. I understand that a one-of-kind classic painting isn't the same as a watch but the concept is the same - a person seeks to satisfy their need for pleasure brought on by that particular form (a wrist watch).

The closer the copy is to the real thing, the greater the pleasure. I invite the poster who suggested that people who wear reps are 'trying to fool someone' and to 'get over it' to consider that there's more to it than that for at least some of us who choose to own very exact copies of haute horology time pieces. Are there people out there looking to fool people? Yes. Is that the sole/main reason everyone buys reps (and then attempts to modify them to be as close to the real thing as possible)? No.

I wear both. I enjoy both. I do, however, tend to only buy reps that closely approximate the real thing. It's all very personal - how we choose to enjoy what we enjoy. We do all seek pleasure, however.

Cheers,
Tom

+1

I also buy/create reps that are closest to gen so I don't get called out while enjoying them. That would be embarrassing...especially because I wouldn't lie about it. For me, I try to avoid being called out and embarrassed.