I can tell from my experience because my wife bought me both on two separate anniversaries. For one she bought me a Rolex Submariner and for another she bought me a Repro Steel Shot Special. I've had a lot of great shotguns and many other fine watches, the repro parker is long gone, probably was rolled into some other sxs along the way but I will never let the Rolex go. You could find yourself any where in the world and get yourself out of a jamb ( plane ticket, place to stay, currency, etc.) by bartering with a Rolex if you had to. My wife wanted me to have the Rolex and that meant more to me, the Parker was just another gun that I wanted and it just felt more like "stuff" that I wasn't really connected to. Don't really care about which one is worth more today. My kids or there kids can all fight over it when I'm gone and I have plenty of guns to go around for them, but the Rolex is something that I truly enjoyed on a daily basis.
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