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·Just buy from the mother ship. He pays the same price you would and he charges more because he thinks you're stupid enough to not know any better.
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·Just buy from the mother ship. He pays the same price you would and he charges more because he thinks you're stupid enough to not know any better.
A lot of his inventory are items you can't get from Omega unless having a service. E.g., hands, bezels, and dials. And some items Omega would not provide you even if you had a watch serviced. Such as wanting to put 2254.50 sword hands on a 2531 Bond SMP. I always try my Omega AD first to see if I can buy what I need, like a bracelet or extra links, but if they can't get it then this guy might be the only option left.
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··Omega Qualified WatchmakerA lot of his inventory are items you can't get from Omega unless having a service. E.g., hands, bezels, and dials. And some items Omega would not provide you even if you had a watch serviced. Such as wanting to put 2254.50 sword hands on a 2531 Bond SMP. I always try my Omega AD first to see if I can buy what I need, like a bracelet or extra links, but if they can't get it then this guy might be the only option left.
He's either being supplied by watchmakers with parts accounts, or he's been buying up inventory that's out there - maybe a bit of both.
Omega has recently tightened things, so that even watchmakers can;t buy specific things without sending the old part back for exchange. For example Mitsukoshi dials - that's why they command rather stupid prices on the market.
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·He's either being supplied by watchmakers with parts accounts, or he's been buying up inventory that's out there - maybe a bit of both.
Omega has recently tightened things, so that even watchmakers can;t buy specific things without sending the old part back for exchange. For example Mitsukoshi dials - that's why they command rather stupid prices on the market.
He bought a lot of stock just before Omega clamped down.
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··Omega Qualified WatchmakerHe bought a lot of stock just before Omega clamped down.
Just curious how you know this? Are you saying he has an Omega parts account?
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·Just curious how you know this? Are you saying he has an Omega parts account?
I've never bought from him but he seems legit, if nothing else his site is a decent place to look for part numbers on some of the dials, hands, casebacks and such.
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··Omega Qualified WatchmakerHe states on his sister website (www.swisslimitededitions.com) how he got most of his stock, mostly through Swatch Group Australia when parts were freely available up until Nov 2017 when supply ended. He saw what was coming and bought up as much as possible in the years previous. But supply was cut off in 2017 to Australia, earlier to the EU. He is running the business on that stock, but no new stuff is coming in. When it's gone, it's gone.
I've never bought from him but he seems legit, if nothing else his site is a decent place to look for part numbers on some of the dials, hands, casebacks and such.
Well, he's making a killing, but I understand that this is now a very hard to find dial...the market at work...
Anyway, thanks for the information. I hadn't seen this statement on his web site before.
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·But you can buy an Apollo 11 35th dial, which is very close to the Mitsukoshi, at 1/2 the price, a relative bargain! Indeed, the market at work.
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