I bought a watch from a highway salesman recently. It's a Porsche Design. Fake.It cost all of about $14. The case is not titanium. On the back it says "Rose Gold". Maybe not.
I was amused, as I asked the guy, "It runs on batteries, right?" Not. (I knew it wouldn't be battery-powered.) It's wind-up (or motion-activated) and needs to be reset to the right time every morning. In other words, the mechanism is so ineffieient that it runs down in the middle of the night, after a day of wearing.
I love the tire pattern - on the inside of the rubber band. Very cool.
(My other title for this post is: "Wasting money = coping mechanism".)
Paul...All Porsche watch aficionados KNOW that the tread pattern on the inside of the band is to provide better traction on your wrist! Come on...
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Seems like one can never get away from those salesmen selling their fake wares.
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ReplyDeleteI posted a comment but something happened so if 2 comments post on this - whoops. I'll say the same thing twice.
This comment is coming from myself, my daughter and my husband - which, after reading your post on the coping mechanism of "wasting money" by buying fake watches --- we would like to suggest another method of wasting money which might not cost as much per go. You can download a song on iTunes for only $.99 or a music video for $1.99. They even have stuff from the 70s and 80s like Duran Duran - which, admittedly, won't keep as good as time as your new sportscar watch but has pretty rockin' synthesizers. Just a suggestion. 14 fun clicks of the "download this song" for the price of one watch off the streets of Nairobi. I dunno. Not bad.