John is an excellent writer. I'm thinking he didn't mean "brownie points" in the way you literally took it. I think what he was trying to convey is that you should expect that most Omega collectors and especially the hard core snooty ones, won't respect that watch at all. Not you; the watch. It will sort of be like wearing a knock-off Hermes necktie. The people who know Hermes will know its a fakie and think you're a piker and the rest of the 99.9% of normal people who couldn't care less about Hermes in the first place still won't care.
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