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Old 02-16-23, 03:09 PM
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Clones?

I wander why people call Brompton copies as clones but Rolex clones as homage? Here is example of homage watches. Also a clone Brompton is considered as bad thing while Rolex clones, called homage watches are fine.

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There is no difference. Where did you hear there was?
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I wander why people call Brompton copies as clones but Rolex copies as homage? Also a clone Brompton is considered as bad thing while Rolex closes, oh sorry, homage watches are fine.
It's all about paying royalties to the original company.
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It's all about paying royalties to the original company.
Homage watch producers pay no royalties if that’s what you’ve meant.
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Homage watch producers pay no royalties if that’s what you’ve meant.
Either way the company who is the design initiator receives some form of compensation,...
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Originally Posted by tds101
Either way the company who is the design initiator receives some form of compensation,...
In case I mentioned above, Rolex receives no compensation from Submariner homage producers.
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Originally Posted by CEBEP
In case I mentioned above, Rolex receives no compensation from Submariner homage producers.
The company will still receive sales based off of the recognition and promotion of their mentioned/copied brand. Clones deny the fact they're not original, and refuse to acknowledge the brand of the original design.

“respect or reverence paid or rendered”
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Originally Posted by tds101
The company will still receive sales based off of the recognition and promotion of their mentioned/copied brand. Clones deny the fact they're not original, and refuse to acknowledge the brand of the original design.

“respect or reverence paid or rendered”
I’m not sure I can understand your point. Homages are copies. If same logic is applied then Brompton copies help drive Brompton sales too and should be called homages.

I also seriously doubt that Submariner homages help drive it’s sales. Considering you can’t buy a new Submariner without entering a long waiting list anyways.

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Originally Posted by CEBEP
I’m not sure I can understand your point. Homages are copies. If same logic is applied then Brompton copies help drive Brompton sales too and should be called homages.

I also seriously doubt that Submariner homages help drive it’s sales. Considering you can’t buy a new Submariner without entering a long waiting list anyways.
And there is the point that you seem to ignore. Again, a homage acknowledges the creator, where the clone ignores the initiator of the original. It's a "point of contention" that's been debated nonstop. Waiting lists are irrelevant. It's the recognition, or lack thereof, that makes it an issue (including legal proceedings).
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Originally Posted by tds101
And there is the point that you seem to ignore. Again, a homage acknowledges the creator, where the clone ignores the initiator of the original. It's a "point of contention" that's been debated nonstop. Waiting lists are irrelevant. It's the recognition, or lack thereof, that makes it an issue (including legal proceedings).
Few Rolex Submariner homage product pages that first come to my mind:

link to Invicta Men's 89260B Pro Driver.

Another one: Steinhart Ocean One BLACK Diver Watch

Another example is Squale Y1545 20 Atmos.

Please point me to the part in the listing page where they acknowledge the creator.
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Originally Posted by CEBEP
Few Rolex Submariner homage product pages that first come to my mind:

link to Invicta Men's 89260B Pro Driver.

Another one: Steinhart Ocean One BLACK Diver Watch

Another example is Squale Y1545 20 Atmos.

Please point me to the part in the listing page where they acknowledge the creator.
Homage,...what don't you comprehend? Apparently you're exactly the type of person that likes to debate semantics. Discussion is over.
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Yep, I thought so.
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Even more interesting is the fact that a Rolex Submariner clone from China would be called a copy or clone and from a EU brand - homage.
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Even more interesting is the fact that a Rolex Submariner clone from China would be called a copy.
actually, they are called Knock off. 😜
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I wander why people call Brompton copies as clones but Rolex copies as homage? Also a clone Brompton is considered as bad thing while Rolex clones, called homage watches are fine.

I've never heard the term "Homage" applied to fake Rolex watches. When I lived in Hong Kong there used to be a division of the police concerned with "counterfeit" luxury goods. "Counterfeit" is the term I'm accustomed to. Mind you, if the counterfeiters are rebranding their wares as "homage" then fair play to them, I guess.
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Originally Posted by joey buzzard
"Counterfeit" is the term I'm accustomed to.
Hmm. I'd think to be a counterfeit, the manufacturer/seller would have to be fraudulently passing the item off as the real thing. That's much different from manufacturing a design that's no longer patent protected, not using branding that's copyrighted/trademarked.

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I am, all the time. You should try it.

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Originally Posted by joey buzzard
I've never heard the term "Homage" applied to fake Rolex watches. When I lived in Hong Kong there used to be a division of the police concerned with "counterfeit" luxury goods. "Counterfeit" is the term I'm accustomed to. Mind you, if the counterfeiters are rebranding their wares as "homage" then fair play to them, I guess.
I wasn’t talking about fake watches. Fake watches are Rolex copies branded as Rolex but not produced by Rolex. I was talking about exact same design but with producer’s own brand name. Here is example.
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No, it's exactly the opposite. Enjoy the bolex discussion.
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If you have a fake Rolex it can be taken from you at the boarder when you cross into Switzerland, and they'll destroy it. These things happen to protect Swiss Brand's.
I am really tempted to try this sometime...I have an el Cheapo Rolex from the 90's (long since stopped working !)
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Nobody checks your wrist watch upon entering Switzerland

I wander if anyone ever seen a Brompton copy? I mean bike made by some other manufacturers but branded as Brompton? If not all clones are technically homages I guess, not copies.
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Originally Posted by CEBEP
I wonder if anyone has ever seen a Brompton copy? I mean bike made by some other manufacturers but branded as Brompton? If not all clones are technically homages I guess, not copies.
I've seen some trifolds with British flag decals and even CHPT3 paint schemes, but AFAIK none branded Brompton or using Brompton's font (both trademarked).

There are any number of unauthorized t-shirts available on the internet bearing Brompton logos and graphics. Apparently, Brompton allows that for the advertising value they get from it (?).




Brompton did have that well-documented trouble with jackleg subcontractor Neobike back in the 1990s. IIRC even Neobike's owners' manual was a photocopy of the Brompton owners' manual!



Fun fact: As Andrew Ritchie started negotiations with Eurotai to build Neobike-Bromptons in Taiwan, Dr. Hon called him up and said, "You don't want to do business with those guys." In a decision that would haunt Brompton for over a decade, that advice was dismissed.
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