Accused of wearing a fake.

[ndsleep612]

A few months ago I went to Vegas with 2 individuals. One I perceived as a friend at that time and the other an acquaintance. After seeing my Rolex on my little vacation, the "acquaintance" starts to tell my friend that Rolex owners are d**ches, which applied to me as well.

This acquaintance I found out was still a druggy in his 30's and never grew up and was losing brain cells at a rapid pace. He kept on blabbing fictitious stuff he supposedly saw on Youtube as real news.

Seeing the true side of this narrow-minded acquaintance when he retorted to name calling for no apparent reason I took it with a grain of salt. There are tons of haters out there who think they are entitled because they are narrow-minded morons.

Let's just say that I got a bit paranoid at nights before I slept when this "acquaintance" eyed me whenever I put my wallet away along with my Rolex.

Lesson learned is that not everyone who are friends are decent vacation buddies. Also, life's too short to appease to narrow-minded idiots.

[Investr]

If you are being asked if you are wearing a fake Rolex, it's probably to make some wardrobe changes or quit keeping the company of morons.

[kilyung]

Originally Posted by Christiaan

Come to the "Viagra triangle" of Chicago and see 80 year olds grinding on 20year olds

I think I just threw up.

[Silvio Mosiello]

Originally Posted by GradyPhilpott

It's happened to me, too.

I simply said, "There's no such thing as a fake Rolex. (Insert a chorus of objections). Then I said that a watch is either a Rolex or it's not and left it at that.

In time the skeptics began to realize their folly and were appropriately humbled by the experience.

Of course, what others choose to believe about my watch is really of no concern to me.

What really annoys me is that by implying or overtly stating that I am wearing a counterfeit, the skeptic impugns my integrity.

Just remember that the truth is what really counts and the truth always prevails.

Grady your posts are like reading Shakespeare I love it! Is your last name Webster by chance?

[Silvio Mosiello]

Originally Posted by Christiaan

I was once asked by a salesman at Tourneau if my LV was fake...classy

Thats Tourneau for ya!

[Silvio Mosiello]

Just act like a big shot and say " How about tommorow we go to an AD and i'll bet you $5,000 this watch is real." That'll shut him up.

[doubleinfive]

You should've said..."that watch costs more than your car..." - Alec Baldwin from Glengarry Glen Ross...

[GradyPhilpott]

Originally Posted by Silvio Mosiello

Is your last name Webster by chance?

Thank you for the kind words.

My surname is not Webster, but I did have a dog many years ago named Webster.

She was such a great pet. I miss her a lot.

[Silvio Mosiello]

Originally Posted by doubleinfive

You should've said..."that watch costs more than your car..." - Alec Baldwin from Glengarry Glen Ross...

I just posted something like that on another thread lol!

Originally Posted by GradyPhilpott

Thank you for the kind words.

My surname is not Webster, but I did have a dog many years ago named Webster.

She was such a great pet. I miss her a lot.

No problem! I am sorry to hear about Webster too Grady..... Pets are part of the family! Especially dogs

[HeyItsRaymond]

Originally Posted by Wacker23

You need a better class of people around you.

You have no idea. I was the DD for a good friend and his friend who I hardly know. It was the guys birthday but I quickly realized that they were all trash/alcoholics. I almost left several times but I had promised my friend I would drive them and I tend not to break promise. But never again!!! And it has nothing to do with the whole Rolex fiasco. They were just not my type of crowd.

Originally Posted by jk88

A lot of people's perception has to do with how you carry yourself.

I'm always accused of being a "snob" because I don't like clubbing and I rarely drink. This guy didn't know me very well or would have never made the accusation.

[HeyItsRaymond]

Originally Posted by GradyPhilpott

What really annoys me is that by implying or overtly stating that I am wearing a counterfeit, the skeptic impugns my integrity.

Exactly!!!

[HeyItsRaymond]

Originally Posted by Christiaan

I was once asked by a salesman at Tourneau if my LV was fake...classy

Sounds like Tourneau. Was it the Vegas "flagship" (queue sarcasm) store?

[HeyItsRaymond]

Originally Posted by Investr

If you are being asked if you are wearing a fake Rolex, it's probably to make some wardrobe changes or quit keeping the company of morons.

SOME PERSPECTIVE ON MY WARDROBE:

~ Phoenix was still 105 out at night.

~ I was wearing a Lacoste t-shirt and Brooks Brothers shorts with flip-flops.

~ If someone (especially a lush) judges me on my wardrobe at a dive bar with $3 two-four-one drink specials then the can go f*ck themselves. I wasn't at the Ritz-Carlton lobby bar.

[HeyItsRaymond]

Originally Posted by doubleinfive

You should've said..."that watch costs more than your car..." - Alec Baldwin from Glengarry Glen Ross...

It probably does.

[Silvio Mosiello]

Originally Posted by HeyItsRaymond

It probably does.

Thats if the schmuck even has a car!

[djemmtee]

Comments like that should not bother you...as long as you know its 100% legit than thats all that matters! You should wear your watch because its an expression of you and makes you feel good...EFF what anyone else says!

[Silvio Mosiello]

Originally Posted by djemmtee

Comments like that should not bother you...as long as you know its 100% legit than thats all that matters! You should wear your watch because its an expression of you and makes you feel good...EFF what anyone else says!

The point is that its embarrassing! I have had the same thing happen to me and I just say I guess you know more about watches than me.

[Megalobyte]

Originally Posted by Christiaan

Come to the "Viagra triangle" of Chicago and see 80 year olds grinding on 20year olds

Trying to erase that image from my mind. I need a vampire to glamour me please.

[Megalobyte]

Originally Posted by doubleinfive

You should've said..."that watch costs more than your car..." - Alec Baldwin from Glengarry Glen Ross...

FU, that's my name! Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here...

[Silvio Mosiello]

Originally Posted by Megalobyte

FU, that's my name! Cause you drove a Hyundai to get here...

And I drove a $90,000 BMW!

[djemmtee]

Originally Posted by Silvio Mosiello

The point is that its embarrassing! I have had the same thing happen to me and I just say I guess you know more about watches than me.

crazy...I have been wearing rolex since I was 24 and have never had this happen to me.

[Megalobyte]

Originally Posted by HeyItsRaymond

You have no idea. I was the DD for a good friend and his friend who I hardly know. It was the guys birthday but I quickly realized that they were all trash/alcoholics. I almost left several times but I had promised my friend I would drive them and I tend not to break promise. But never again!!! And it has nothing to do with the whole Rolex fiasco. They were just not my type of crowd.

Wow, same thing happened to me! I was the DD, bunch of guys were drunk and talking trash about the new ceramic sport models, they think the super case is an abomination, vintage is the only "real" Rolex, blah, blah, blah, I told them to F-OFF, I love the Glidelock, and I left them stranded on a deserted corner at 3am where their Rolex's were sure to get noticed. :)

[Megalobyte]

Originally Posted by Silvio Mosiello

And I drove a $90,000 BMW!

And your name is you're wanting, and you want to play in a man's game... :)

First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, second prize, set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. Oh, have I got your attention now? :)

(One of my favorite scenes ever, great movie in case anybody somehow missed it)

I like this scene so much it's been my signature quote for about a year. :)

Hard to go wrong with a David Mamet screenplay with Alec Baldwin, Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey and of course Jack Lemmon.

[BlueXelor]

Good morning!
I love my fake.

[HeyItsRaymond]

Originally Posted by BlueXelor

Good morning!
I love my fake.

I'll give you $150 for that fake.

Just to get it off your hands so you won't be embarrassed anymore.

I'll even fly you out here First Class to make sure that flimsy fake makes it here safely.

[BlueXelor]

I never had problems before. But since i owned this one two guys are really sure that this cannot be a real Rolex.

[tropical sunset]

I would have had some fun with this. With your friends as witnesses I'd have shook his hand with a big friendly smile and wagered a bet that if it's proven fake by his Tourneo guy the next club party night out is on his tab for all your friends present for the whole night with him as the designated driver. Did I mention the Casino after the club as well?

[jamesbondOO7]

I have to say that when I saw the new Deepsea for the first time (on my brother in law's wrist), I really wondered what it was. I had no idea Rolex had made a huge watch like that.

For me the very few times it has happened, and I know people were teasing me, I just said: "well, I don't know, the store looked genuine and the price felt like a Rolex price, but I am no specialist."

[jamesbondOO7]

Originally Posted by LeslieC

I'm not sure I would care either. I'm not even sure people will even notice and I assume that some will think it is fake as there is a really fuzzy line to some people. They think a fake rolex is a discounted rolex. I know a few people that I work with that have bought Channel and Gucci bags when in Thailand. I'm not sure if they know that the items are knock offs or if they think they come from the same factory and are just sold without markup. Either way, I just wouldn't care is someone thinks my watch is fake.

A Channel bag is definitely a fake.
Only sold on the Eurostar.

[Rickk]

Originally Posted by HeyItsRaymond

I'm a new member of the Rolex Club and just picked up my DSSD this week. Last night I was at a club with some friends (and friends of friends that I did not know) when one of the more obnoxious drunks of the bunch (I was the designated driver) asked what kind of watch I was wearing. I said "DeepSea" because 1) I don't want to seam like a pretentious a**hole and 2) I don't want the pretentious a**holes, and shallow girls here in Scottsdale liking me because they think I have a Rolex.

He grabs my wrist and says to the group "He's wearing a fake Rolex!!!" (while laughing).

I politely disagree but after a few minutes of trying to explain to him what I have on I give up. Apparently he's an experts and He says that he buys all his watches from "his guy" at the local Tourneau (sp?) store and he has never seen that Rolex there before.

Tourneau isn't an AD and every time I've been in the local and very tiny store all I see are beatup Sub's in the preowned section.

Have you ever had a person say yours is a fake when they obviously have no frickin clue what they are talking about? It seems that if it's not a Sub or GMT people who do not know Rolex think it's a fake.

I don't understand all these comments saying to just let it go. Depends on the situation I guess. About a month after I got my datejust, I was in book store in a mall and a teenage kid looked at me and said nice fake rolex. I just laughed and said I knew I couldn't fool you. We both just laughed, he thought he had busted me and who cares.

A grown man grabbing my wrist and trying to humiliate me in front of other people??? Nah, that is not ever going to happen without consequences. At that point it is not about a watch, it is about publicly insulting me as a man. He would either apologize, or we would go to general quarters.