Audemars Piguet

Chromatic Fugue
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these responses are so fascinating to me!

In my professional world, almost no one, except for me:  (1) has ever focused on what "Audemars Piguet" is, (2) would recognize an AP as a high-end watch, or (3) would be in a position to know the difference between and real and a fake AP.  And in my world, almost everyone thinks it is foolish to spend more than a few hundred dollars for a steel watch, or to pay any sort of premium for a mechanical watch that keeps worse time than their own quartz watches.  Essentially all of my friends and colleagues are completely watch-blind. (And these are not poor people, btw.) 

So if I had been in your position, and if I had recognized the watch as a fake (which I frankly might not have), I probably would have speculated the following:  this guy is as clueless about watches as everyone else, and he probably bought this watch on a street corner in NY for a few hundred dollars, not because he was trying to pass it off as a status symbol, but because he thought it was a cool-looking watch.  And beyond that I would have drawn no other conclusions about him or his character.

This is why discussions like this are fascinating to me, because I just don't live in a world where watches matter to anyone but me.
This message has been edited by Chromatic Fugue on 2010-02-26 16:45:19