LMAO... Nothing could be further from the truth.
Now in my 28th year with my Breitling and all I have done to it maintenance wise is battery changes.
All well known brands of Swiss watches (jewelry) are expensive and perhaps overpriced and it is up to people to decide what they are willing to pay for their watches.
If you like to be a poser by buying cheap knock offs, so be it.
By supporting the people that make these fake watches (by buying them) you are supporting an illegal activity... It's like stealing intellectual property and that's why when customs get their hands on all these fake products, they destroy them.
In the end... to each his own.
BTW, in the mid 70s I bought what was my first "pilot watch" a Seiko chronograph styled watch... Worst watch I ever bought! Within two years it had cost me more in repairs than the price I had purchased it for ($400) so I threw it away and I will never buy another Seiko again!