Breaking News: The New Steel Speedmaster With Caliber 321 “Ed White”

orlis

you said you only stated it could be stolen? Not really…

C Carac

Damn, you owned me, guess I'll shrink off into nothingness.

We can have an argument about semantics where we debate pedantic issues like listing possibilities and then referencing the list without prefacing it with "possibly" again.

i.e. if it makes you feel better, I'll rephrase with emphasis:

"I didn't say it WAS fake, I said it was POSSIBLY fake or stolen" I also "corrected" it by replacing "probably" with "possibly" in case that offends your sensibilities as well.

There, take the superiority you felt in "catching" me being less that perfectly clear in a forum post, thus rendering anything I had to say as worthless, and save it for the next time you need to feel like you "OwN3d" someone in an argument.

I'm still going with someone was POSSIBLY trying to sell a stolen watch. More likely than some bleeding heart watch collector selflessly denied themselves a 25% profit they could apply to the Silver Snoopy purchase they are trying to prove they are "worthy" of by buying an Ed White.

orlis

It’s so funny people are complaining about the flippers and calling them names and when someone just offers it’s piece for retail to make another speedy enthusiast happy, it MUST be fake

tmilnthorp

A sad truth in today's watch-world, I'm afraid. If only everyone were so charitable! I am sorry that slash missed out on what appears to have been a good opportunity. That said, it's just a watch. You will have the chance to buy it at retail again. I assume you're on the list at an OB/AD slash92790?

S slash92790

Yes, just put my name on the list, but as a new customer of omega, I think maybe need few years to get a new Ed white.

jzra

Got mine today also...

C Carac

Soooo, everyone on here that has gotten theirs had a SA at an OB that called up Omega HQ and gave them their Omega life story and negotiated on their behalf for an allocation? That’s seems a little convoluted. My assumption would have been it’s like Daytona allocations where location and sales volume just determines how many you get and how often as an OB. Just want to confirm this how it is by some other people that got theirs before I go and chastise my SA for not knowing about this policy or doing the leg work for nearly a year now and that it’s not just because they really just haven’t gotten their allocation yet.

cvalue13

According to my OB, a rather large one in the U.S., the SS321 allocations worked differently (for them) than the Snoopy allocations.

On the SS321B, the OBs got to drive the allocations of what came into them. I didn’t here anything about the decisions of what we’re sent to the OB. But once it got to the OB, they used a multi-factorial seeming system of (1) generally vetting whether they thought someone was actually interested in the watch for personal use, and then (2) the chronological order in which full deposits were made. E.g., in my case, I was #3 on the list, and ahead of me were the boutiques #1 and #2 clients based on annual sales. I suspect they were in before me because they were contacted by SAs before the widespread press release. I called to get on the list within minutes of the release. I waited almost exactly 1 year (356 days to be exact).

As for the Snoopy, I talked to the same sales people well after the release (I was not a motivated buyer for the Snoopy), and they reported a unique ever approach to Snoopy allocations. Unlike with the 321B, the OB were collecting the info of the interested, but - at least early on - it was HQ that was then sending allocated watches to specific buyers, with the watches arriving at the OB with a named buyer attached by HQ. In this instance, for example, as of a few months ago the OB’s #2 largest client received his first; reportedly this was to some disappointment by the OB, given the #1 was well and away larger than #2.

Everyone’s mileage may vary here depending on jurisdiction, OB influence, or degree of sales b.s. baked into any of these anecdotal stories.

There are the reports of 4 ~”nobodies” (or at least a few of the 4) simultaneous taking delivery of the earliest Snoopys in Australia.

W watchfisher

So, to my reply just above, what would you recommend? I have contacted my OB, reached out to several other OBs and ADs, and am on wait lists, though no full deposit. My OB is not taking deposits (partial or full), and is not able to determine if or how many he might receive. I discovered the 321 months after it was announced, and the turbulence of deposits /availability / wait listing seems a bit confusing. I admit, I haven't been a long time customer with my OB, though I have purchased several Speedmasters through him. Perhaps I am little potatoes, and that's an unspoken message regarding my possibility to get a 321.

stevec14

I do love the way the applied logo is virtually dark most of the time but when the light catches that and the ceramic bezel it shines....