BREAKING NEWS - 50th Anniversary Apollo 11 in Steel Revealed

jpjsavage

Absolutely. I think they have pitched this right (much as though I would have liked it to be a little cheaper!). At the end of the day, the market will decide on future values. For now, it seems like a fair price point for an iconic watch and an important anniversary.

S stuart70

I tend to disagree. How many of the people that are on the list are just there to ‘flip’ on day one rather than buying to enjoy? The market may decide on pricing but ‘overheating’ will eventual lead to a crash and followed by a re alinement to more realistic values. This will just damage the true collectors. How many 5711’s, Daytona’s and LE’s are bought just to flipped?

stevec14

Where do you think this should be priced? I’m not arguing, just interested to hear another view.

STANDY

It is what it is (actually like the watch)

New movement
Touch of gold ( moon-gold now that sounds rare )
LE for a big event.
New price.
Flippers- well welcome to today’s world. Not gunna stop them....

Not for me but the price doesn’t bother me. (Not my reason for not buying)
Like the watch don’t like the subdial, there is a lot of nice things on this watch. (Not my reason for not buying)

Modern watches in general are pushing me away from them.
Thicker and more shiny dive watches. Rolex and Omega
Ceramic bezels, cases
No options in future servicing

Spend the 10k on a vintage speedmaster. Boom that’s what it is all about.
Buy 3 vintage watches worth 10k double Boom

10 pages about Omega shoulda coulda on a new watch. The talk on money and profits of future sales is killing the watch world. Every new Rolex or Omega it’s the same.

Leaving this thread for the buyers and the people that want this watch. They don’t have to answer all the nay sayers or shoulda coulda comments.

Like the ST1&2 cant wait for the happy camper wrist shots once it’s out. 👍

BT1985

The fact of the matter is that a 50th anniversary edition has a greater intangible asset value and that is how Omega is justifiable in the price over the mere change physical materials from the previous version. Go walk into a OB or AD tomorrow and see if you can get someone to take your money. Well an AD might....but I have been told by my AD they were promised a number which they presold and that Omega has come back and told them they will be getting less. Now they have to tell a few people they won’t be getting the watch.... The price is clearly what the market will bear.

To the moon

Let's see once the flippers realise that the profit may not be there and they pull there deposit....

stevec14

Between you and Stuart you seem to have a bee in your bonnet about it.

It’s a watch. Chill out. If you don’t like it or don’t want to pay it, don’t.

Japanred

It’s clearly worth what it’s priced at as it’s sold out. That’s how capitalism works. Nothing any of us can do about that. If no one bought it they’d probably think twice about how they priced the next one.

Stufflers Mom

I'm not totally convinced that the watch is sold out, 6969 is a fairly large number for a watch that has several things going for and against it. What we might see is an initial spike in grey market price as the roll out and supply is slowly distributed.

Stufflers Mom

I'm not totally convinced that the watch is sold out, 6969 is a fairly large number for a watch that has several things going for and against it. What we might see is an initial spike in grey market price as the roll out and supply is slowly distributed.

To the moon

Well said 👍

stevec14

Sorry mate, that wasn’t meant to sound as condescending as I just read it back, but we all (me included) get hot under the collar about these things. Reality is that it’s very much first world problems thinking whether to buy a 7 grand watch or not! We are lucky to have the choice. Many don’t or can’t.

FWIW I do think it’s worth the upgrades - just, but I don’t think it will trade at much (if any) premium. A snoopy it is not (but hey, what do I know because I hated that).

In any case, personally I am on the fence about it looks wise. I should get one, but doesn’t mean I’ll buy it.

Pepe Lucas

I don’t know about the rest of the world but the allocation for the USA is sold out. Some people might say that it just means that Omega just filled the orders that the boutiques and ADs placed but I talked with a salesman in a boutique and he told me that he has several people on a waiting list in case someone changes his mind and don’t want the watch. Most of the watches already sold have some kind of deposits on them.