Reps or Gens - Reasoning

[Johng1122]

why waste your hard earned cash on an emotional purchase which the manufacturers laugh to the bank with?

Exactly, don't get me wrong if I had 20 plus million in the bank I could understand maybe spending 50k on a gen. But that's a steep amount. I just think about how much I can do around my house. Swimming pool or watch in march? Lol

[Chegespresso]

For real,

Everyone needs to watch the Georges Kern (ex IWC CEO) lecture he gave to marketing students:

YouTube

He basically tells them all, the luxury watch industry is a scam and they sell dreams and don't really do much more as the watches are so cheap to manufacture. Must watch!

[Johng1122]

For real,

Everyone needs to watch the Georges Kern (ex IWC CEO) lecture he gave to marketing students:

YouTube

He basically tells them all, the luxury watch industry is a scam and they sell dreams and don't really do much more as the watches are so cheap to manufacture. Must watch!

Intertesting I'll have to take a look. Thanks for the info.

[Flattop]

For real,

Everyone needs to watch the Georges Kern (ex IWC CEO) lecture he gave to marketing students:

YouTube

He basically tells them all, the luxury watch industry is a scam and they sell dreams and don't really do much more as the watches are so cheap to manufacture. Must watch!

LOL!!! Yes, people think Rolex is a watch maker, I think they are really a marketing company...

[breitlingwatch]

Exactly, don't get me wrong if I had 20 plus million in the bank I could understand maybe spending 50k on a gen. But that's a steep amount. I just think about how much I can do around my house. Swimming pool or watch in march? Lol

People with way more money still buy reps. There are rep threads on all the Ferrari forums. They usually have a mix of both. Nobody is questioning if your watch is gen if youre getting out of a Ferrari

[Johng1122]

People with way more money still buy reps. There are rep threads on all the Ferrari forums. They usually have a mix of both. Nobody is questioning if your watch is gen if youre getting out of a Ferrari

Very true lol. But, regardless I would never walk up to a random person and ask hey let me analyze your watch to see if it's real.

[movingshadow]

As the above have pretty much stated: It all boils down to: Can you pull it off. If you work at McDonald's people might think that gold rolex is fake, if you are a private banker at UBS they likely won't question it. If you drive an old honda civic and rock a 30k watch you might get called out, I'm 37 and drive a Jaguar and a BMW and wear watches in the 8-15k range so no one bats an eye.

Personally I could afford to buy a few gens, but I have much more fun with my 60+ watches, hunting down certain ones and never getting around to wearing them all. Also, I'd never pay the premium for something like a standard PAM (I have a 177 and a 111) because the good reps are basically on-par with the gen...

just my 0,02... :P

[Johng1122]

As the above have pretty much stated: It all boils down to: Can you pull it off. If you work at McDonald's people might think that gold rolex is fake, if you are a private banker at UBS they likely won't question it. If you drive an old honda civic and rock a 30k watch you might get called out, I'm 37 and drive a Jaguar and a BMW and wear watches in the 8-15k ranke so no one bats an eye.

Personally I could afford to buy a few gens, but I have much more fun with my 60+ watches, hunting down certain ones and never getting around to wearing them all. Also, I'd never pay the premium for something like a standard PAM (I have a 177 and a 111) because the reps are basically on-par with the gen...

just my 0,02... :P

Of course. Like I said I am not trying to be something I am not and neither are most of the people here. It's more of an appreciation. For instance the daydate ice I will never have unless I hit the lotto but I would still love to have it. Same with some others that I would consider grails. I can get a gen but the thoughts were why get one when I can get 10 lol And still have a few bucks left.