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Originally Posted by DocMick
Fakes are fake. They're not replicas, they're counterfeits. If you're cool w that... if you purposely spend money on an item that falsely asserts to be something it's not, it says something about you.
What that something is.... is hard to define.... but in my world view it's unfavorable. I would cut any business ties with anyone that becomes askew when queried about the watch.
"Hey, nice Tag/Omega/Pam/Roles" I'd say but in my mind, I'm critiquing that AR coating, that dial, the milkiness of the crystal. If I have to wonder about the watch, I will wonder about the person and the likelihood that I'm going to get paid or ripped off.
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I'm all but certain what I'm about to write won't appeal to you, but I'm going to write it and hope that you understand I respect your right to hold the views you do, even though I don't share them.
What went through mind upon seeing the blue text so soon after having read the red text, is saying, "Hey, nice [whatever]" when you really don't think it's nice at all is just as much a lie as putting, say, Rolex's name on a watch that Rolex didn't actually make. The only difference in my mind is the fake watchmaker is lying about a thing whereas you are misrepresenting your feelings.
I know that when asked, that watchmaker won't claim that Rolex made the watch, but your having said "nice watch" to another person about a watch you don't think is nice at all tells me you might squarely lie to someone else -- or to yourself if "nice watch" is what you are thinking in your own mind even as you take exception with various attributes of the watch in question -- and do so right to their face. I think we both know what that says.
If you don't like the watch, why not just keep mum. If you honestly believe it to be real and don't have doubts about ti due to the milky crystal or whatever, why not just keep mum and talk about something else? That's certainly what I'd do for I have no need to compliment a watch I don't care for, but I also don't need to tell that person that I know their watch is a fake and everything else I might think about their having bought it. What good would that do either the other person or me? None.
All the best.