Not using watch you bought

I get being careful with a. Expensive watch, but if you aren’t going to wear it, why buy it? Why not get the fake and just pretend you have the real one at home.

Bottom line, I don’t buy anything I’m too scared to use.

Regardless of reasons, don’t buy fakes. If you have a watch with high value or high sentimental value, don’t wear it in high risk situations.

Every day someone posts a picture of some old beat up watch they got from grandpa. Yet everyone is trying to preserve watches like they’re made of wet tissue paper. Bump them, scratch them, wear them. Leave your marks, your story and your legacy. Some nerd like me will find that watch someday, look at the wear on it and wonder what great things happened with this watch on wrist?

There can be several other fair reasons... I have a number of very interesting watches I mainly bought as home decorations and problaby never will wear, just because I have finer watches for time keeping... Then is one also too big and one was a present to my collection, but that is a very fine fake Rado and I don't want to walk around with a fake!

The too big homage of Diesel's mrDaddy...

And my interesting Chinese skeletons...

They know that they're not worthy.

If a person claims to own a real Rolex but then states that he/she wears a fake one because he/she is afraid of damaging the real Rolex, I have to call into question their initial claim of owning a real Rolex. At the end of the day he/she is willing to live with a lie, and the watch on his/her wrist? Well:

Interesting take.

Has never made sense to me. I’d feel like an idiot doing dirty work in my fake Rolex. I also figure you’re just as likely to get mugged for your fake Rolex as you would be for your real one.

If you’re really doing something messy or going somewhere dangerous, just wear a cheapie.

Owning anything nicer than our typical range of purchases & possessions makes us act strangely.

I understand a lot of the reasons why someone would do that, and it's all mostly due to the fact that they probably don't feel like they could replace it if something happened to it.

If you've never been around these things, there's a lot that go into owning them that you're not aware of. As @OscarKlosoff & @JBird7986 mention, they likely do not understand HOW to own & use something of that caliber. If you have something like that, you need to insure it. You need to not flash it in the wrong areas & situations. Etc.

Wasn't there a lady, back in the late 1990s, on one of those talk shows, who kept the clear, plastic covers on the couches and chairs in her living room, because she didn't want to get the fabric dirty and because she wanted the furniture to remain in "mint condition"...? And by the end of the show, they convinced her to take off the covers?

If I was that guy with the fake Rolex, I'd wear the REAL one. One of the reasons that Rolexes are so expensive is because they are so well-built, durable, and reliable. Nothing stays "mint" forever, unless you stick it in a box and lock it away in a vault. (Or, unless you cover it in clear plastic! 🤣) ... And then, once the REAL Rolex was safely on my wrist, I would invite friends over, call them out to the back yard, and give them each a sledge hammer. And then all of us would go "Office Space" on the fake Rolex. 😎

Here's the thing: getting scratches / scuffs on your watch are par for the course. Any device that is on your wrist is going to encounter a few bumps and mishaps along the road. It's inevitable. Just accept it. And like someone said above, the scratches and scuffs give the watch character. And if the scuffs become so numerous that you can't read the dial, get the crystal replaced. Done and done. Watches are TOOLS. Even Rolexes.

If the only consideration is monetary value then keep the real Rolex in a safe deposit box. It's not the way I would do it but I wouldn't buy a watch that is so expensive that I don't dare wear it. There is no 'wrong' way to do this. Except buying fakes, that is wrong. I would never do that and you shouldn't either.

He's better off investing in mutual funds lol

Don't wear it, don't buy it!

Cheers!

I understand the reluctance to wear an expensive watch out on the streets; in that case one should just buy a cheap homage and rock his/her expensive watch on special occasions only.

But for the love of God don't buy fakes (or we can call them replica) - not only is the person deceiving himself/herself but supports criminal organisations that are probably not paying taxes (fakes are illegal in almost all of the countries).

Just buy a Tevise or whatever 😀

Agreed! Insure it for if something happens to it by mistake (loss/stolen) but wear the heck out of it for the memories!

You're spot on! I literally had the exact conversation with my wife when she overheard a YouTuber I was watching say a watch was $5k. She balked...then I reminded her that she was literally doing dishes with that much on just one finger... haha

Also, if the day calls for something that can take a beating, that's why Vostoks and G-Shocks exist 💪.

It's like a supercar, if you can't afford to fuel, insure and drive it then you probably shouldn't own it.

This is not the best example, as it sounds like this guy might own just the two watches, otherwise I have to blame the 'collector' mentality. I see it with cars, both old & new, all of the time. Who buys the most and uses them the least? 'They' want, they consume their choice of 'mechanical device' with no intent of ever using it.

Note I'm not criticizing the practice. I'm simply responding to the thread.

Only joking 😊

I think in general your sentiment is right about wearing any watch regardless of the price. The problem is when people buy watches that are way out of their economic status they tend to baby them which is also totally understandable. This is why I hate the idea of "luxury watch" as it accentuate the value of normal watches to insane highs and make people think they should have them regardless of their income. That's why I generally don't care about watches above a certain price point, around $5k, because beyond that point it's all about the name and prestige of owning a watch rather than the total value for money. At least this is my personal opinion.

Other than buying fakes fuels criminality and slave labour….

Anti fake myself, wouldn't have one myself.

Funny but I've had my Grail watch (SM300 spectre look alike) for a few years, but rarely wear it because I much prefer my Willard ,Alpinist and Dad's old quartz Aqua Terra. Nowt to do with value, I just prefer them 🤷🏼‍♂️

My Corolla was Desert Sand Mica. I didn’t know it came in Dorian Gray.

Not uncommon throughout history for people to wear or display fakes or replicas of their expensive watches, jewelry, even art. Mostly a security thing.

Buying anything and not using it because resale value would never be something I'd do.

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

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.

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 😅

So what is this wrong of which you speak? Who does it wrong?

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"

You should have just let the kids die. You can always make more.

This makes no more, or less sense than someone who wants to wear his new watch every day and knock the cowboy hell out of it.

And this makes no more, or less sense that someone who buys a new watch and never wants it to leave the box.

In other words, if your "Rollex" was genuine.