They are all sold out, at least the manager at my OB told me that.
Cool video!
Did anyone else notice that when the second hand hits the 60 at the end of the video, the minute hand is between the 8 and 9 markers?
I always set my Speedmaster, and all my watches, to squarely hit the minute mark when the seconds hand is at the TDC position. It may eventually get off a little as the watch inevitably speeds up or slows down, but at least when I set it I know it’s right or it would drive me crazy.
Heads up, I've just been informed by some AD's that Omega has finalized their allocations and they've decided to not allocate any to US-based AD's (only Omega Boutiques).
Anyone else hearing this, as well?
If so, good luck to Omega with respect to selling all 1,014 of these at this price point. It's one thing to try to do that for Speedy Tuesday's at the $7k price point, and another to do it at the $35k price point, full colored gold, etc.
Heads up, I've just been informed by some AD's that Omega has finalized their allocations and they've decided to not allocate any to US-based AD's (only Omega Boutiques).
Anyone else hearing this, as well?
If so, good luck to Omega with respect to selling all 1,014 of these at this price point. It's one thing to try to do that for Speedy Tuesday's at the $7k price point, and another to do it at the $35k price point, full colored gold, etc.
I did not hear of this. But 1014 is worldwide and not US only. I do know that these watches were allocated to retailers here in NL (we have no boutiques). I will ask Omega to confirm this for the USA though.
I don’t think Omega is going to have any trouble selling these. I know it is not the same watch but an all gold Daytona starts around 35.5k. Now the Omega has some historic importance and some improvements. Again, I know it is not the same type of watch but just for price reference it is not that out off line in my opinion.
It's one thing to make them OB exclusives from the start (like the Speedy Tuesday 1 & 2), and another to retroactively set that rule once it's time to wrap up the allocation distribution.
I would argue that these were DTC as the sale was via social media, and in fact, OB were only involved in deliveries. Bienne was managing everything directly for ST1 & 2.
But agree that one should not change rules halfway through the journey.
