229 of your British pounds buys this…
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152 for this with Seiko Auto.
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Brings a whole new meaning to “mock Tudor”
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This is what I don’t get, if you can’t afford a Tudor BB model, why pretend that you can?
Who are you actually kidding, as anyone who knows what Tudor are know it’s fake, anyone else just see’s it’s not a Rolex…
And the buyer obviously knows as well…
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I do get your point, but on that basis most dive watches ever made are copies of something else. And aviation/space etc. You can draw similarities with pretty much any watch to others.
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I just saw a nice looking watch. Don’t care if it looks similar to the Tudor.
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Do you actually own a watch Stu, or are they all virtual? 
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All in my imagination Jim. Along with my collection of air-cooled Porches, and turntables with four platters.
I have a Speedmaster among others , and will probably buy another for my 50th, so when I go to the great gig in the sky I can leave one to both my sons. but the ones above look decent imo. I don’t care if someone thinks the watch on my wrist is fake or not. I didn’t buy the Speedy for other people or to willy-wave. Whilst I disagree with counterfeit watches, the ones above, for me, look decent.
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I would feel quite sad wearing such a watch.
If going for a big brand watch I think I’d go for this Air King. It’s their entry level but I like it better than others:
I like the mixture of the hours and minutes and also the logo being in gold and green.
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The Aquatico is more than simmilar, they have taken the Tudor BB58, changed the knurling on the bezel and added a date window.
I just fail to see the point. The Tudor is quite distinctive, in particular with the snowflake hands, gold/black dial and large hour markers.
Actually Rob, when you put the two together like that, I’ll have to admit you are right ! It is not just close, but an almost exact copy of the bits which make the Tudor distinctive. Ok, scratch that one from the list !
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OK, I’m obviously not a detail person, because I don’t think many / any (?) watches are that distinctive from any of their ilk.
There is a lot of opportunity for differentiating your design, look at a Rolex sub - the archetypal dive watch then look at a Breitling Superocean Heritage, or a Rado Captain Cook or a Longines Legend Diver, All fill the same niche but all look very different, to me anyway - I guess you may really have detail blindness - or just need to get yourself to specsavers.
The thing is it’s very easy to be lazy change one minor thing and pretty much copy someone else’s design. There will be those that love it as they are bargain driven or just cant afford ‘the real thing’ and those that hate it as they feel it’s devaluing their original.
Personally I take each circumstance as I encounter it in the above Tudor / Aquatico I couldn’t care less as I think the original is an over hyped, ugly waste of metal who’s movement is put to far better use in the achingly beautiful Breitling Superocean Heritage II B20.
Personally I dislike Tudor’s design language which is a shame as I like the idea of the BB GMT but plenty more fish in the sea.
Oh the irony of mocking a watch for looking like a cheaper Tudor, when Tudor itself is just a cheaper in-house pastiche of Rolex! 
I’ve taken a fair bit of flak for choosing “Marmite” watches, but although they were chosen because I loved how they looked, factors like dodging the me-too cliches and pastiches, as well as avoiding the moronic herd-following conformist snobbery that attends certain brands, mattered.
It’s a damned shame that so many brands are terrified of innovation and originality, but that doesn’t sell in a hyper-conservative market that mostly wants Rolex, or Rol-ish, and has no mind of its own.
Luckily, 99.9999% of humanity doesn’t give a shit what’s on your wrist. Just buy what you like…
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I’d go for this Air King
Ironically, that is the one-and-only Rolex I would like to own. Needs to be on black leather. Shame they printed War & Peace on the dial…
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Lol, I don’t mind that actually. I absolutely love the font used for Air-King as well. The little things on that model speak to me.