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Actually you might be interested to know what sort of people wear fakes - I will describe a couple of my buddies from my old forum.

One is a Malaysian multi millionaire businessman who has a collection of over 250 genuine Pateks, Rolex Daytona's and very rare early 1940's Rolex Chronos, Panerais, IWC's etc etc - all his collection except 2 or 3 are solid gold and all in mint condition - worth probably 2 or 3 times this forums collective worth!!! He would easily spend £30,000 on a watch on impulse and he also has a lot of fakes which he wears regularly and is quite passionate about - what do you make of that.

Another is a New York investment banker - on a good year he make $10,000,000 - a bad year a $1,000,000. He has several genuine watches and many more fakes - he cares more about the fakes that his genuine ones and it's not about the money for him!!

Another is a German chap who is a designer for one of Germany's most prestigious supercar manufacturers - he designs the cars but loves his fake Panerai 212.

And others are just young guys who don't yet have enough disposable income to ever buy the real thing so a fake is the obvious answer - and so on and so on. The forum I frequented had over 6,000 members all over the world. I'm only scratching the surface here and with respect to the nature of this forum I will say no more.

The good old subject of fakes rumbles on and on!
At the end of the day - like so much in life - it's a matter of individual choice. I personally would never wear a fake..... but then that's my choice. I sure as hell can't understand those rich guys that Mark describes - I mean, why care about a fake if you have several hundred originals?? - but then I guess that's their choice too.

It's a funny old world.

Aha - so what about a nice DAK's Cobra with a decent 427 under the hood (wow a limey that knows his auto's!!!) - still a fake!!

Brian - nothing but nothing beats a Merlin (even if it's a Packard build!!!)

Da Man!!!

I was at the Duxford airshow a few weeks ago - they had 4 merlins running up on the ground - the sound was just orgasmic!!

Biggest tragedy for a long time (apart from the P51 at Oshkosh that clipped the tail of another 51 when landing) was the Hurricane UP-W that was the only Battle of Britain survivor which nose dived into the deck on the 15th Sept. Just the week before that I went to see it in a hangar where it was laid up after it's prop got damaged by a runway light that was blown up into the prop. I took a load of pics only for a week later to be a pile of dust - pilot killed - terrible.

One is a Malaysian multi millionaire businessman who has a collection of over 250 genuine Pateks, Rolex Daytona's and very rare early 1940's Rolex Chronos, Panerais, IWC's etc etc - all his collection except 2 or 3 are solid gold and all in mint condition - worth probably 2 or 3 times this forums collective worth!!! He would easily spend £30,000 on a watch on impulse and he also has a lot of fakes which he wears regularly and is quite passionate about - what do you make of that.