Prince of Paisley
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The bottom line is that hommage watch makers are trying to sell their product on the perception, reputation and design of another maker. Regardless of quality (which is a moot point in a fake - a well executed fake artwork is still as worthless as a badly made one), their motivations are identical to the Chinese industrialist who bangs out a million Rolex-branded fakes and sells them for even less than the hommages.
You make sense here, even if you didn't mean to. What you are saying here is that an "hommage" watch is just a higher quality "fake" - an ersatz Rolex or whatever. People buy them motivated out of a mixture of desire for something else they can't afford, and aversion to buying something cheap from China. Mix the two and you have an hommage.
You begrudge people who buy fakes because they are el cheapo, but you are ok with people buying more expensive copies of famous watches because they are Swiss made. I would never buy a watch that looks like "a poor man's..." out of a matter of principle, no matter where it was made. You are happy to buy hommages over fakes (which we've just established are the same thing with a different price tag and country of origin) simply because they are:
1. more expensive and
2. hail from Europe rather than China.
That's pretty snooty in my opinion.
Some people can't afford a Rolex/PP/whatever but still want a watch that looks vaguely like their favourite expensive watches and to be of a good quality and not an el-cheapo fake from China.
You make sense here, even if you didn't mean to. What you are saying here is that an "hommage" watch is just a higher quality "fake" - an ersatz Rolex or whatever. People buy them motivated out of a mixture of desire for something else they can't afford, and aversion to buying something cheap from China. Mix the two and you have an hommage.
I certainly don't begrudge such people from buying a Debaufre/Steinhart etc. If anyone here does, that's their right, but I think they're a snob for doing so.
You begrudge people who buy fakes because they are el cheapo, but you are ok with people buying more expensive copies of famous watches because they are Swiss made. I would never buy a watch that looks like "a poor man's..." out of a matter of principle, no matter where it was made. You are happy to buy hommages over fakes (which we've just established are the same thing with a different price tag and country of origin) simply because they are:
1. more expensive and
2. hail from Europe rather than China.
That's pretty snooty in my opinion.