This is serious business, not entertainment. Get serious or get out!
Just kidding, welcome to the forum.

 

excluding taxi drivers in Italy

the story behind the clock is interesting, if it's all true. The price is jaw dropping and the dial design leaves a lot on the table. IMO it's too flat and has no personality. At that price, they could have done more with the dial design.

 

Clymer addresses the community.

“It has been a dream of mine to make the watch world a more open and inspiring place”

Let’s see what happens at Hodinkee going forward.

 

Sh!t just got serious.

 

I think this would have been far more exciting.

 

Still nothing said about the dig at Asian manufacturing though....

 

Obviously derogatory and a veiled racist comment. Methinks their editing team needs a little diversity.

 

Their staff is actually pretty diverse- except the 9 white dudes on the editing team.
https://www.hodinkee.com/pages/masthead

 

Wow 54 people! No wonder the clock has a 5000% mark up!

 

Although many of us would never have been a potential customer for this product, nor some of us even a potential customer of The Dink at all, this has been a huge PR boom for them- negative or positive doesn’t matter, it’s free press. If they had been seeing a dip in web traffic over the last 6 months, this certainly jump started it back up again.

 

Free press? It's actually press that nets them a half-million dollars

 

Not free press for this disaster- that ship has sailed, but now everyone is watching to see what comes next. It’s like a soap opera.

 

Well I can count myself as a member of the camp that did not visit their web site before or during this product launch, and don't plan on visiting after either.

...well, unless they develop/ market a new LE of a vintage watch with a Swiss maker that will sell for 5x what the available true vintage models actually sell for at the time. Maybe something one of the Hodinkee chiefs coveted as a child. That I would fully get behind!

 

I had one in my basket I was about to push the buy button then I realized it didn’t have a radio. Other than that it’s damn near perfect.

 

Hmmm, these Zoom calls could get interesting - are they going to be hosted under ‘The Value Proposition’ section

 

"The mistake made here we will learn from"...but while that process is ongoing, might I interest anyone in a nice pair of sunglasses, currently available in our "rare finds" category?

 

They have been sitting there for a few years, Unless they found a box of them....

 

Hey, if they wait long enough, someone will buy them for the melt value of the gold plating!

 

Money?

 

Look what’s on the shelf