This has been mentioned before but in the last 12 months homage based watches have really taken off.

For me, most of the recent homage based watches are too far or should I say too close to the original, if you wore a fake rightly so you should be vilified for it, but bar a few small lines of text most of these modern homage’s are exact copies of the original so not far off a fake, is that too harsh?

Are they designed this way to give the buyer a feeling for what the real thing is like, or to fool others from 5 yards the owner is wearing a high end expensive watch?

Just to say I once had a Kemmner pre crown guard Sub-a-like, it was a great watch as it had similarities to the early Submariners but was far enough off the original to make it stand on its own, to me that’s an homage..