I have no issue with people buying fakes, until they start flaunting it like its the real thing. I personally dont buy fakes, but I do buy movement clones. There are some amazing movements that you can get for <$50 from some of these chinese manufacturers. No one ever asks me how much my watches cost or tell me they look like fakes, I just know that my $40 chinese movement clones tend to get more admiration than my $5k+ watches. I also think people seeing a younger guy wearing a watch that cost a decent amount just assume its a fake.
here is my latest watch that was $50 shipped. Ive never seen anything like it and neither have most people that comment on it. I had some guy at a watch shop (a customer) offer me over 1k to buy it off me. I had to tell him it was only $50. Would have felt bad ripping him off like that.