FWIW, I have vintage manually wound watches with screw down crowns and never have given a 2nd thought to them. Never wished they were not screw-down. But maybe they all just had particularly well designed threads that were super easy/intuitive to use without any fear of cross threading. Unlike many of my automatic watches

Edit: also, how thick is your Tudor?

Stealing (even if it's intellectual property) = Wrong

I thought that is what you were referring to when you said "two wrongs don't make a right, but I'm more in the afflict the comfortable camp"

Ron Kubi was likely quoting someone else when he said something like "what is the crime of robbing a bank compared to the crime of being a bank?" Likewise, what is the crime of "stealing" Rolex IP (from decades ago) compared to the crime of being Rolex? One could claim that two wrongs don't make a right, but I'm more in the afflict the comfortable camp.

Not sure how Rolex (or any watch brand existing) is a crime... but maybe they personally wronged you somehow? (other than their dogsh*t AD model. Which is hideously slimy, but not illegal)

As you say, two wrongs don't make a right. So just be better than the entities or people you criticize and don't follow them down the road of wrongs.

If you have to use mental gymnastics to justify why your "wrong" is ok... you're probably simply wrong. Full stop.

Keep things simple, just do good.

Or buy a homage watch with the homage brand on the dial and own that sh*t proudly 😅

If the motive is no different from that of the real Rolex buyer, the fake wearer is merely smarter.

Smarter? Or just ok with stealing? Because that's what copyright infringement is. Stealing. You might not like my perspective, but there is zero moral high ground when wearing a fake.

I sleep well at night knowing that I don't steal. Even from big rich companies. I just don't. It's a moral issue fundamentally

If you can't afford to simply wear it, you can't actually afford to own it. Sell it.

If you wear a fake Rolex for any reason, you're buying watches for reasons that are fundamentally stupid and vain.

I totally understand taking off a very expensive (or even cheap, but vintage and well preserved) when you're wrenching on the car or rock climbing, etc. But if you're then substituting in a fake watch instead of the thousands of amazing beaters in the market made just for this... then you don't actually like watches. You like a brand.

Looks like he has a site now, https://lapinist.com

Guessing the waitlist is decently long? But possibly worth it

You have a similar calculus to me. It's a beautiful watch. But as you say, the Pro functions ostensibly as a field watch with an am/pm indicator. The only party trick the Pro really brings to the table is the jumping hour hand, which is immensely (understatement) satisfying when you're actually traveling.

For me, I want a tool watch to be as flexible a tool as possible. I use my rotating GMT bezels to time things constantly outside of work, just like a diver bezel (which is why all the newer 24 click GMT bezels are suboptimal) by lining it up with the minutes hand. But a 120 click GMT bezel is even better than a dive watch because you can time events up to 24 hours by timing off the 24 hour hand.

And for work I leave the GMT hand set to UTC 0 (or Zulu time) and then use the bezel to quickly adjust whatever 2nd timezone I'm tracking at any given moment based on the +/- offset. This is something you cannot do with the Pro. You're married to tracking one 2nd time zone all the time, unless you want to hack the watch.

Personally I think if you're going to buy a fixed bezel GMT and need to track other time zones often, you're better off with a caller GMT complication which makes this 10x easier.

I have both caller and traveler GMTs, both with rotating bezels. And I struggle to find any rational use case for a fixed bezel + 24 hour GMT hand. I'd be better off with a thinner dive or field watch that looks equally cool/rugged.

And that's ignoring all the practical questions of whether it fits equally well on a hike as it does a work dinner