I asked two AD and an OB in Switzerland (as I live here). All three were really confident that they will be able to deliver the watch maybe already this year, latest next year. One of the AD’s even mentioned that there will apply a small discount probably.
for this reason it seems like that Omega will try to sell as many watches as possible. As Swatch is having issues with the low and midpriced watches, I have the fealing they will want to try to milk the profits as extremely as possible. Basically only the three high price point watches are growing within the group (omega, blancpain, breguet).
Already the Omega Apollo 11 50th Anniversary can be found sometimes below 9600.- CHF in Switzerland. I bought a new one from a private person yesterday for 9000 CHF (I guess he wanted to flip it, but prices came down quite a lot; as 6969 is not really a limited series) -> Apollo 11 and 13 is rather a theme for the US, so I guess the availability there is less than in Switzerland.
I like the watch a lot and want it. But my question is rather if I should buy it at an AD or OB or wait a year until there will be probably some discounts on the watch on the grey market. To be honest, as I have several watches, I want to avoid paying a premium on a watch (as you never know if you have to sell it at one point in time). This is as well the reason why I bought my other Omega watches on the secondary market (Apollo 11, 60th anniversary edition).
it really depends how many Snoopy watches Omega plans to sell. And my understanding is, that nobody knows yet..
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