An Internet watch seller in Poynette has lost his brief federal court battle with Swiss watchmaker Rolex over his Web site, which sold cheap knockoff watches.

Vincent Konicek was ordered on Wednesday in U.S. District Court to pay $323,611 in damages and other expenses for copyright infringement and cybersquatting as part of a default judgment over his Web site, toprolexreplica.com.

In a statement issued Wednesday, Konicek said he "feels overwhelmed by the corporate and justice systems that can savagely and ruthlessly impose unrealistic penalties, especially in light of the fact that there are over 600,000 Web sites selling replica Rolex watches."

Federal court records indicate that Rolex has sued many of them over the years. The company sued Konicek in January to get him to stop selling his $99 Chinese-made knockoffs.

Rolex sought and received a default judgment after Konicek failed to file a timely response to the lawsuit. He responded on Monday and admitted selling the replica watches, but said they were not intended to deceive anyone.

Konicek said he lives on Social Security and a small pension totaling about $24,000 a year.

In his statement, Konicek said he had no comment about the judgment but wondered about the wisdom of the lawsuit over the eight watches he had managed to sell.

"Does Rolex really think that the person buying a replica watch would have bought a real Rolex?" he wrote. "Did Rolex really suffer any losses or damages from some poor schmuck selling knockoffs?"