intresting....

i have no news otiff it's a numbered edition etc, all I know is I have a pre-order in a with a deposit against it.

 

Mate I honestly think the Darkside is going to be one of those rare watches that ends up selling on the secondary market for a premium over retail price, the local Omega ADs and boutiques here are struggling to get ANY allocated to them. I am seriously tempted to put a couple pre-orders in myself...

Is this your first Omega, or do you have a few others in the collection?

 

Welcome Steve. And congratulations on your good taste

 

Given the retail price is about three times as much as a standard Moonwatch, there would have to be an awful lot of demand for that to happen. I think it could happen, but am a little sceptical at the minute.

The most likely situation is that prices will temporarily spike when the first ones are out, as early purchasers are able to sell on the first orders that are filled. Longer term I'm not sure if a higher price could be sustained. A lot of desirable LE's are having difficulty commanding their original prices, or much of an extra premium except in a small number of cases like the 500 piece Soyuz. I suppose it takes us back to the whole "watches are not an investment" discussion...

 

True its a rather rare occurrence the only Omega that did that over its life recently I can think of is probably that Liquid Metal Calibre 2500 which was limited under 2000 and then sold slowly by allocation at boutiques.

 

Nice cross section! Definitely in the right place then, be cool to make a new thread with some albatross pics, that's one very unique Seamaster.

 

The Australian price is always likely to be higher, your quite is right on what I've been told.

 

It's about 9% cheaper than the UK price too.