I’ve just bought a Pagani Designs sub homage for around $55. It has a Seiko movement in it. But I don’t actually see myself buying a Rolex. I wouldn’t say that a homage watch will tell you what the original will be like as often they don’t have the same dimensions. But they certainly give you an idea for the style of watch and how it will work with your attire and lifestyle. I have an extremely cheap Pagani Designs dress watch which is loosely a cocktail homage that I got to experiment with size as well as strap colours.

Trying watches on in a shop isn’t enough to know if size will work for you. It also comes from previous experience. Homage watches are great for getting some experience.

I do. I have skinny wrists and got the Octopus Kraken NTTD knockoff to check how a Seamaster would wear. I ended up getting a seamaster down the line, and what’s cool is that the Octopus is a very nice looking and solid watch in its own right, especially on an unclestraps bracelet!

Nope, it’s more like buy the homage because you cannot afford the real deal i.e get the Maen Manhattan for $800 because you can’t swing $75k for a vintage Vacheron 2215 (and probably will never find one) so in a way the homage is OK.

Damn, thats an interesting way of thinking of Pagani. I always considered em as a concentrated piece of sod.

The only good alternative to your idea was printing the watch on 3d printer to see how it looks on a wrist.

Or you could try both on …. Crazy idea

I have yes. Kinda stopped because I felt it wasn’t what i wanted to do with my money.

No. Not at all

Tudor GMT pepsi homage for Gmt master 2…quite expensive homage😁

Yes. I owned an Invicta Pro Diver for a while as a test drive for a Rolex Submariner. Ended up disappointed with the Submariner, but I kept the Invicta, ha.