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Armani Watches "Most people who are buying the $30 Chinese counterfeit realize what they're purchasing," Brokate said. "People buying the product that's been junked up with after-market products think what they're buying is genuine and it's not. When something goes wrong with that watch, who do they blame? They blame Rolex."The Dolce & Gabbana jewelry line prominently features the company’s logo on many of its pieces as a design element. Pieces like a distinctive silver-toned necklace with oval links and a circular pendant and a gold-toned bangle set with crackled print. Not all of the jewelry line is crafted in metal alone; customers will find such trendy pieces as men’s leather bracelets with a silver-tone D&G logo gracing it. www.armaniwatchesuksale.co.uk Bulgari's watchmakers still make complex watch movements, like tourbillion, by hand. This involves production, assembly, and decoration, as "every detail is subjected to meticulous and continuous quality control, from the crafting of the individual components to the various phases of manufacture and assembly to the finished product," according to the brand's product literature. A single watch component, for example, sometimes takes a day's worth of work. emporio armani ar1400 A lot of people, even in the watch industry, claim that wrist watches are no longer necessary because technology has given us better and more accurate ways to tell the time. How does one design an unnecessary item to feel necessary?Earlier in the day, Asian markets closed down after Japan posted a trade deficit for July, reversing a year-ago surplus and adding to signs of a global economic slowdown. Young people such as 29-year-old Emily Schuman, who works full time on her lifestyle blog Cupcakes and Cashmere, are buying watches more as fashion statements than necessities. emporio armani ar1400 Schuman, who lives in the Mid-Wilshire district of L.A., said she stuck solely to bracelets to decorate her wrists until two years ago, when she scooped up an oversized gold Michael Kors watch. Now she owns three timepieces and calls watches "an accessory that ties the whole look together." When it found out about Melrose.com, a Rolex investigator visited the website and bought three Rolex watches for prices ranging from $3,725 to $9,925, the watchmaker said in the lawsuit. The company determined that each watch contained some parts from vintage Rolex watches more than 30 years old and some counterfeit parts with counterfeit "crown" trademarks, the lawsuit alleged.