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Riviera Paradise
·B blokk2018 seems over exaggerated with the Olympic Speedmaster. It's after all the same design?
Tokyo 2020 Olympics Speedmasters
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerAs for chasing short-term profits, that gives the share price and cashflow an immediate boost. Swatch can take that to the bank.
Spot on. People are taking this very personally, and once again some are forgetting what the role of any corporation is - create/increase shareholder value. Nothing else matters unless it feeds into that goal, and I would say worrying about the reactions of collectors who own some other LE's that may drop in value is not even a consideration.
What may seem short sighted for the consumer doesn't matter. If the market likes what is happening, then Swatch is on the right path. They are more concerned about stock market analysts reactions than the watch owners.
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Riviera Paradise
·Spot on. People are taking this very personally, and once again some are forgetting what the role of any corporation is - create/increase shareholder value. Nothing else matters unless it feeds into that goal, and I would say worrying about the reactions of collectors who own some other LE's that may drop in value is not even a consideration.
What may seem short sighted for the consumer doesn't matter. If the market likes what is happening, then Swatch is on the right path. They are more concerned about stock market analysts reactions than the watch owners.
Agreed with what Swatch are doing and how it makes sense for them in the short term and also they shouldn't care about value retention from a collector perspective.
However, as I have posted before, an excessive supply/ gloat of a supposedly scarce product could hurt the brand in the long term. Just look at what Disney has done with the absurd Star Wars franchise release cycle.
If this is just a quick cash grab by Omega during the end of the current economic cycle, and they then start restricting supply to a certain extent, well I can see no harm in the long term. At the end of the day Raynald and other Omega senior execs almost certainly have Omega stock...if the Hayek family don't want look ahead at the long term picture you can't blame their staff for focusing only on the short term wins.
Personally I did not purchase my XI-45 or #ST1 to sell in the future but to treasure and wear them. Both are keepers.
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··Omega Qualified WatchmakerHowever, as I have posted before, an excessive supply/ gloat of a supposedly scarce product could hurt the brand in the long term.
That ship sailed a long time ago mate...
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··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorA LE that is only sold in Japan. If I recall correctly isn't another LE sold only in Japan quite sought after nowadays
With all the box of 5 being sold out within a day I don't think we are going to talk about these for long.
And where is it that Ultraman came from 😗😗
So three hot watches at the moment being the original ultramen, the Japanese racing original which are big $$$ and a newly released ultramen and there is pages of people worrying about a Japanese limited edition being released.......( And Rolex is making people wait 5 years for a SS sports watch ) 😉
With all the box of 5 being sold out within a day I don't think we are going to talk about these for long.
And where is it that Ultraman came from 😗😗
So three hot watches at the moment being the original ultramen, the Japanese racing original which are big $$$ and a newly released ultramen and there is pages of people worrying about a Japanese limited edition being released.......( And Rolex is making people wait 5 years for a SS sports watch ) 😉
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Riviera Paradise
·That ship sailed a long time ago mate...
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·ACE jewelers have put together a good collage of modern Speedy LEs released during the last decade 2008-2018. Although some LE designs are repeated (they do include both the single and collection set versions), when you look at the image below I think you do get a good idea as to how Omega have dramatically accelerated Speedy LE releases since 2017.😁
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LeonDeBayonne
·ACE jewelers have put together a good collage of modern Speedy LEs released during the last decade 2008-2018. Although some LE designs are repeated (they do include both the single and collection set versions), when you look at the image below I think you do get a good idea as to how Omega have dramatically accelerated Speedy LE releases since 2017.😁
And that's just the speedies LE Looks like every idea at Omega gets a chance to be marketed. As long as it sells, who cares?
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LeonDeBayonne
·That chart looks worse than it is because they are posting the same watches twice that come individually and in numbered sets .
B blokk2018 seems over exaggerated with the Olympic Speedmaster. It's after all the same design?
That chart looks worse than it is because they are posting the same watches twice that come individually and in numbered sets .
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WatchWalker
·Welcoming the new member, black and white!
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rominvicta
·Of course it's not being done to piss people off, that's just silly. What is being done is chasing short-term profits at the expense of long-term customer relationships. Why should I buy the next $7,000 LE Speedmaster at MSRP from an Omega Boutique when I know it'll be trading for $5500 on the gray market after they re-release it?
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·My take is that while it will likely hurt resale value for certain editions, I don't think Omega's goal is for collector's to make money.
While I am personally disappointed, this is very true.
The flip side is making it impossible to get watches people want (Rolex, Patek).... who wants to pay 50k for a basic time only steel watch?
I guess that is what makes collecting interesting, you never know what will come next or what the future will hold. Nobody complains that their steel 5513 has gone up 400% in 5 years.
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jhross98
·And yet somehow a speedy Tuesday sits unsold on sales corner....
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sgrossma
·The past year has been a bit different so hard to say, but historically the summers were always dead and nothing moved from late May to early September.
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oddboy
·Please, can we haz a re-release of this one, in multiple colours and different precious metals?
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JesterP
·I really hope your joking Oddboy
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·Welcoming the new member, black and white!
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Mtek
·I hope they release a winters olympic special edition, using the granite from a curling stone for the subdials lol. The LE curling edition.
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Riviera Paradise
·I hope they release a winters olympic special edition, using the granite from a curling stone for the subdials lol. The LE curling edition.
