[geckoGT]

I have a Tag Aquaracer automatic, which in the grand scheme of things in swiss watches is pretty much entry level but when you look at the quality, it is heads and shoulders above anything more mainstream. I wear this watch every day, at work, whilst manually lifting patients out of mud and all sorts of weird places, in car crashes, you name it. I also wear it road cycling and mountain biking (even knocked it in a few crashes. There still is not a mark on it. To me that is where the point is, this thing is accurate and it never gives me grief, no matter what I throw at it over the last 4 years. The only issue I have is being an automatic, if I do not wear it for a couple of days it stops but as I wear it most days this does not matter. If it does stop, I set it again off the sat nav and all is good.

I do not go into the look at me I have a great watch thing, but sometimes it does get noticed. You get comments like "nice Tag" and that is not a bad thing. I do not know that I would feel the same about that comment if someone said it to me and in my mind I knew it was a fake. Like getting a BA XT, doing it up to a GT replica and then having someone say "nice GT", you know the truth.

Nor do I like the idea of supporting a company that is ripping off someone else's work, without the outlay on design and quality control.

Sure, I would not spend $10k on a watch, but $2k on one that looks like mine and gives service like mine does, that is fine. At least I am not supporting theft of intellectual property.