October 5th 2020 - Snoopy Celebration

johnny5

My local Omega Boutique told me recently that I’m “next” for snoopy. The manager said that they are now getting one perhaps every 45 days or so. While they had to take care of brand ambassadors and VVIP’s first I don’t think I am a VIP. Here is my purchase history with this boutique if it helps:

1861 moonwatch
Seamaster 300 master coaxial
CK2998 pulsometer
Apollo 11 50th in steel
No time to die
321 Ed white
Apollo 8 on order
I’ve probably purchased 8 or 9 NATOs as well as 3861 bracelet also

I don’t know how much it helps but the manager has sat down with me and asked me about the rest of my collection, and has seen me wearing both Rolex and AP on several occasions. She mentioned that they have to submit a 2 page profile to omega for each client on the snoopy list. I also paid full deposit last may before the new watch was officially announced.

Here’s hoping snoopy is in the cards for me this month. She couldn’t say for sure when, just that I was “next.”

MTROIS

Two pages or not, I am certainly glad that Omega HQ is taking some steps to ensure that these watches are ending in good homes!!! 👍

YY77

By the looks of SS models for sale on C24 neither does Rolex.

chadeaux

They are not very effective but they have a more structured service, that in good part is externalized.
Same thing for PP.
Omega does it in house basically trying to be creative. They are doing their best, but they are far from perfection 😉

MTROIS

You are not seriously trying to suggest that Rolex or PP are even remotely better than Omega at preventing grey sellers getting a hold on their hot model(s), are you!?
Frankly, given the “success” (or rather, blatant failure) that Rolex and PP have had at weeding out the flippers (but of course, we all know they welcome the current situation), I’d do the same as Omega: save my money and do it myself by leveraging the relationship established between the OB with end customers. 🙄
Neither Rolex nor PP operate their own boutiques (with the exception of the far and between salons), so they have to outsource.

VjaceCZ

To be honest I don’t mind that people who spent a lot at one AD are privileged to get the Snoopy sooner. What I don’t get is that there are no clear rules and Omega with their ADs play some kind of game. I did spent a lot at my AD, I’m on the list since 7/2019 but there was no piece for end-customers delivered yet. In other countries there were higher tens (maybe hundreds?) delivered and even to customers who spent very little at AD.

All I can do is sitting and waiting for a call.

VjaceCZ

To be honest I don’t mind that people who spent a lot at one AD are privileged to get the Snoopy sooner. What I don’t get is that there are no clear rules and Omega with their ADs play some kind of game. I did spent a lot at my AD, I’m on the list since 7/2019 but there was no piece for end-customers delivered yet. In other countries there were higher tens (maybe hundreds?) delivered and even to customers who spent very little at AD.

All I can do is sitting and waiting for a call.

Hoddspur

Never understood why just because someone happens to be in the privileged position of being able to purchase 17 watches from the same AD that your ‘VIP-ness ship’ should qualify you ahead of lesser mortals for a Snoopy?

Kind of reminds me of the scene in Titanic where Billy Zane uses his status to blag his way onto one of the few remaining lifeboats in front of the more deserving but in this case those with just one, a few or even no previous purchases. 😒

VjaceCZ

Unfortunately that’s not the way it works. Collection and amount of spent money don’t decide when you get the watch. That’s a personal experience. And that’s what makes me desperate. I’m fine to play the game but I love to know rules before start playing it. This game doesn’t have any rules. Unfortunately.