There’s a new consignment gallery in town that I’ve been meaning to check out for a while. Tonight they hosted a speaker on a topic that interested me, so my mom and I dropped in.<\/p>\n
In addition to some cool lamps and a few swords, they have a case full of watches, bearing a sign: “All watches: $30.”<\/p>\n
At least half of the watches are Rolexes. (Some Movado watches, too, which are also ludicrously expensive.)<\/p>\n
It didn’t take too long for it to dawn on me that the reason they were $30 each wasn’t that they were insane, but because they were most likely all fake.<\/p>\n
I toyed with buying one anyway (along with an ancient rangefinder camera), because it did <\/em>look cool, and besides, who’d know if it was the real thing or not? I ultimately didn’t, but I’m considering going back.<\/p>\n It turns out that fake Rolexes aren’t the exclusive territory of guys in New York with trenchcoats. They’re sold online, but are generally sold under the euphemistic term, “Replica.” This alone isn’t too shocking (although their honesty is.) What’s shocking is that the fake<\/em> Rolexes are still going for 4 digits.<\/p>\n My only concern (well, besides legal <\/a>ones) is that none of the watches were ticking; I assume they just need new batteries, but can’t really be sure.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a new consignment gallery in town that I’ve been meaning to check out for a while. Tonight they hosted a speaker on a topic that interested me, so my mom and I dropped in. In addition to some cool … Continue reading