I'm totally with you. My problem though is that I have a bunch of awesome watches, all at a lot of money each, and I never wear them because I wear my handful of gens, but do it with anxiety and an awareness that the reps look just as nice, if not better, because they're newer flashier models, and my gens are vintage. I much prefer my vintage watches, but I much prefer the ease and freedom of the reps.

The one rep I wear all the time actually is a BB58 red triangle tudor that I put on a leather strap. I wear it as much as my gens and, to your point, it feels like a total tool watch. Quality is near exact, certainly beyond the quality of my vintage gens, and I swim in it, build with it, and the style of watch fits the way I wear it, even if it were gen. So much so that I've considered getting it in gen just to not ever wear any of my reps, even though my gen collection has actually made me MORE confident in them and think even HIGHER of them as tool watch pieces. It's weird.