That would not be good if there is no snoopy for next year. Am looking forward to the 321 SS appearance and at an acceptable price

 

Was told that the price would be in line with the Daytona, so not TOO bad if true.....

 

I will have a word with the manager at my OB later today and report back, he is a big Speedy fan and tends to have his finger on the pulse of what is going on, if there has been any concrete news he should be aware of it.

 

I love the design of the clasp

 

Platinum Daytona price????

 

Hopefully the availability isn’t in line with the SS Daytona as well

 

Gonna be very limited per year.... since the 321 movement are all hand made, my understanding is that they are only releasing 1000 pieces per year initially.... not LE, but might as well be....

 

Excellent! Be like a LE without actually being one

 

Some might say he does actually 'get it'. As an owner of a handful of Speedmasters I still agree with many of his comments. While an original would be astronomically priced, these are priced liked limited edition glycees (cough cough giclee), vs unlimited poster reprints.

 

Great analogy!

Think you mean giclee prints.

For the those who don’t know: a giclee print is a high quality print of original artwork done on archival fine art paper. There are very high standards associated with this process and the resulting “copy” will remain colour fast and last the best part of 75 years, even if you leave it exposed to sunlight.

Whereas as a poster print is little more than an up-spec photocopy

 

Picked mine up yesterday. Houston area. Interesting that the display box isn’t ready yet. Omega is releasing in their regular boxes for now

 

Two holes. Got mine yesterday. Had the AD take out a couple links

 

A giclee print is done via a high resolution inkjet printer, one at a time. The name derives from the French for 'squirt' and 'jet'. I guess a Frenchie sounding name sounds more sophisticated than the American tech term of "inkjet". Name was coined in around 1991 when the process was refined for archival prints.

 

Lara or Kenny, both are great!

 

Long time lurker, first time poster, got mine from a AD in the West of Scotland yesterday, love it!

 

Cool!! A Speedy "crash"!!!

 

Retail price of a steel Daytona is $12,400 and they make way more than 2,000 units a year (the projected 321 production limit). The street price for a new Daytona is about double that, about $25,000 +/-. The Speedmaster is not as iconic as a Daytona and has a manual movement which isn't as popular as the Daytona's automatic. But say a steel 321 Speedmaster is really well styled and is a viable choice to the Daytona, I can see the street price approaching $20,000 on the grey market, easily. We'll just have to wait and see what happens but I suspect a lot of frustration from folks who can't seem to score one from an OB or AD at the retail price, "Sorry, just not available except to good customers who have bought a lot from us in the past", the standard line from Rolex dealers. Possibly expect the same from Omega.

 

Surprised that they didn't have the Astronaut Kit display box for your watch, that's the first I've heard of that. Everyone else got the full kit. When did they say you would get your box?

 

Couldn’t resist a shot with the Saturn V at Kennedy Space Center today

 

houston, we got a problem. The watch is here without its box

already has, I was told by an OB in an upmarket location to buy something before I even get to go on that outlet wait list. I told her that I am hesitant to buy because even if I am on their wait list with purchases , they are going to give to their VIP first ahead of me and bad luck if the stock is used up by the time they get to me in the list. I rather go with a lesser known location