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mjb
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I went to my local Omega retailer (Reeds) last week and inquired about putting my name on the snoopy list. The sales guy started off on some nosensensical spiel about how they have (had) 200 people on the list but only 3 sales (or perhaps all but 3, as he wasn't very eloquent) and that only one guy in the world has the skills to assemble that special caseback and now they've stopped production entirely. So no Snoopy for me. I didn't bother to ask about the FOIS.

I believe absolutely none of that, but I've given up hopes of getting one unless I just get lucky as a walk-in one day at an OB that doesn't have a list. And I won't buy one on the inflated used market, last I saw was an ad here for $16K. Ha.

Are they still making them, as far as we know?
 
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I was told very recently that they are very much in production still with no plans to change that. I will say that the FOIS is far easier to get for sure.

The only one guy can make the case-back thing sounds silly, and I would add that the previous Silver Snoopy which had an actual silver case-back did have production issues due to an insufficient number meeting QA on the case-back but it was an entirely different design and once they solved it they finished delivering all of them (1970 units from memory).

It could be that they’re conflating that previous issue with the new version, as it would be one hell of an odd co-incidence if two Snoopys in a row had production difficulties with the case-back.
 
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Many rumours have been floating around for awhile about how many have been made, will be made, if they are still being made, etc, etc. Omega management knows but we never will. No one is going to get on the list 4+ years after they were announced, and no one is going to walk in to a dealer and be offered one for sale out of the blue. Omega will probably make these cash cows as long as the demand is there and there isn't a bunch of them that show up at less than list price. There is nothing magical about the back or its simple automation, they may have had a few issues at first, Covid and all that stuff that slowed the world down, but they should have solved that a few years ago.
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bsowers34
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My OB would not rule out the possibility of my getting one, and will probably call me if they get one, but I gave up and got a FOIS.
 
nicolamilton
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He might as well have told you that Snoopy itself is in charge of assembly supervision.
 
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nicolamilton nicolamilton
He might as well have told you that Snoopy itself is in charge of assembly supervision.
Or, indeed, Mickey Mouse?
 
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These run in 5 year cycles (current one ends 2025), so to think they go past that is kinda out of the question imo. The new one is already being worked on for sure that will replace this current gen. Source: (wth knows) haha
 
Evitzee
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asloper6001 asloper6001
These run in 5 year cycles (current one ends 2025), so to think they go past that is kinda out of the question imo. The new one is already being worked on for sure that will replace this current gen. Source: (wth knows) haha
There is not likely to be a Snoopy 55th edition, just like there wasn't an Apollo 11 55th edition, that isn't Omega's strategy today.
 
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Evitzee Evitzee
There is not likely to be a Snoopy 55th edition, just like there wasn't an Apollo 11 55th edition, that isn't Omega's strategy today.
I'm guessing next Snoopy with be 75.
 
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rebar rebar
20 years to build our relationships!
Omega loves good old fashioned watch lover boys.
Don't any of you pay and go the grey side!
 
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nicolamilton nicolamilton
Omega loves good old fashioned watch lover boys.
Don't any of you pay and go the grey side!
I'm going to look at the grey side (OTM) today!
 
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They are the playing the ever so odd game. Here in Germany a guy on another forum recently reported how he called an Omega Boutique without purchase history that he would stop by and buy both the Snoopy and FOIS or the boutique can kiss his butt. He went there and was sold both watches.
 
Evitzee
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C Christoph.
They are the playing the ever so odd game. Here in Germany a guy on another forum recently reported how he called an Omega Boutique without purchase history that he would stop by and buy both the Snoopy and FOIS or the boutique can kiss his butt. He went there and was sold both watches.
Why would Omega cough up a Snoopy to some dude who has NO purchase history with them but threatened to never become a customer if Omega didn't sell him a Snoopy and a FOIS today, right now? Makes no sense and most likely never happened.
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texasmade
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C Christoph.
They are the playing the ever so odd game. Here in Germany a guy on another forum recently reported how he called an Omega Boutique without purchase history that he would stop by and buy both the Snoopy and FOIS or the boutique can kiss his butt. He went there and was sold both watches.
If this really happened and he wanted both watches, then good for him. As long as he didn't buy things he didn't want then everything worked out well for him and the boutique.
 
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C Christoph.
They are the playing the ever so odd game. Here in Germany a guy on another forum recently reported how he called an Omega Boutique without purchase history that he would stop by and buy both the Snoopy and FOIS or the boutique can kiss his butt. He went there and was sold both watches.
And probably put them on ebay or Chrono24 immediately.
 
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I had a similar experience in New York a couple of months ago when I visited an Omega boutique. I walked in with high hopes, ready to put my name on the Snoopy list ( I am a 5 times customer). The salesperson gave me an almost theatrical explanation about the steady incredible demand and how “the one craftsman who assembles the caseback” was practically a mythical figure. Really 😂?It was almost like I had stepped into a watch enthusiast’s version of a Kafka novel high aspirations, a maze of answers, and ultimately, walking out empty-handed but oddly amused.
 
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Have to give them credit for giving telling that same story with enthusiasm to several people each day. I’m sure it’s no fun to do.
 
Evitzee
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Omega has done a masterful job hyping and marketing the Snoopy and Ed White 321, and they have done well on the white and FOIS models, too. Better that way then flooding the market.
 
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