I got into this whole replica watch thing almost by accident. A buddy of mine showed me his Submariner that looked perfect, down to the way the second hand glided, and I honestly couldn’t tell it apart from the real deal. I started looking around online and found out about VS Factory. What hooked me was how consistent their watches looked in photos—none of that cheap gloss or weird spacing between numbers you see with low-quality fakes. I ordered one just to see what the hype was about, and it blew my mind. The weight, the dial texture, even the lume looked spot-on. Now I’m kind of obsessed with figuring out how close they can actually get to the originals.