Omega won- Gray Dealers Lost

[Hawkeye98]

Originally Posted by Krash

Snobbery comes in many forms. This post can be considered snobbish too.


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As an owner of a Speedy Pro I was really pissed to see Omega release the collab, primarily bc I thought it “cheapened” the value (not necessarily monetary) of the speedy. I have no intention of flipping my speedy as I had it engraved with my father’s, my, and my son’s name within a week of receiving it. It’s going to be a family heirloom passed down through the generations. It’s sitting on my father’s wrist for another 7 years before I am entrusted with it. My 4 YO son will inherit it when he turns 40 (dates are already engraved next to the names) unless I bite it early! I purchased the speedy bc my father is an engineer with an affinity aeronautics and all things space. I feared the MoonSwatch was going to cheapen the significance of the speedy.
All this to say I was livid and swore off Omega. Now that a few days have passed I have gotten over it and plan to purchase the plastic POS once available on the Swatch website. Haha. I am going to purchase it and use it for what it’s worth - a good looking beater that I can take on vacation without fear of losing, damaging, or having it stolen. The thing I promised myself though is not to put it on an Omega nato and try to pass it off as the real deal - like someone putting an M badge on a base 3 series BMW. It is what it is, nothing more. I will enjoy it as a $250 watch and not worry what the haters say, bc we should all purchase what we find pleasing. This hobby is subjective and shouldn’t be elitist. As a pre-teen in the 80s my love for watches developed from $25 Casios. Why should we hate on allowing people to feed and develop their appreciation for watches simply because we don’t approve of the watch they purchase? We shouldn’t.


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[amh]

The moonswatch is a good thing:
- The target audience is young apple watch users
- Due to the low cost of entry they will sell TONS of these
- We'll get more watch wearers!

It also demonstrates how ridiculous things have become on the 'luxury' watch scene. (Rolex now costs as much as an automobile unless you happen to get lucky at the AD - and clearly most of those 'lottery winners' turn around and flip it on Day1.) Who cares if the moonswatch just plastic & a quartz - not really different than the G-Shock but the latter is never disparaged.

Does it dilute the Omega brand? Probably not. Think of it the same way as branding by the Supreme company. People pay extra just for a red logo.

[Speedbird-1]

Referring to the Swatch as "garbage" is, in my opinion, akin to calling the Toyota Corolla, 'garbage'.

[Andad]

Originally Posted by 77T

I get your point. But that’s an insult to an Apple Watch


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And Apple Watch wearers.

Like me for example.

But Mystro is in a far, far higher class than most watch wearers.

I even own Timex, Orient, Seiko, Tissot, etc. etc. …. but don’t tell him.

[WILLIWALKER]

I look forward to being able to buy all the variations in the beautiful original box! a masterstroke from Omega and Swatch.
Without this collaboration, I wouldn't have bought Swatch or Omega...
Like many people here, I have a lot of pretty pieces, but I really enjoy wearing these pieces of plastic!

[PO 2500D]

Originally Posted by Speedbird-1

Referring to the Swatch as "garbage" is, in my opinion, akin to calling the Toyota Corolla, 'garbage'.

I don't agree with that comparison, as has been said in terms of quality there are loads of better watches at the moonswatch price point like a G shock (lets make that the Toyota) it's a good value well engineered product, the Moonswatch is poor quality for the asking price, £200 watches shouldn't be leaking dye into your skin or have a crystal that cardboard can scratch, you'd expect that from a £20 Chinese knock off.

[Chester01]

Everyone, at least the investors among us should be very excited for the moon swatch. I mean given that most don’t need watches these days the fact that a wrist watch has attracted that much attention outside of the WIS community is a very good thing. This will stoke interest among those folks and possibly open the gateway to folks getting into higher end watches. The more exclusive the lux brands become the more irrelevant they become to most. One can make the case this has already happened with most of Rolex being passed around from investor to gray and back again and completely unattainable to the poor sap looking for a graduation gift this spring.

I don’t see that as a good thing. This was an actual wrist watch with no games, no screen and it got attention. That’s a net win for the entire Swiss industry as far as I’m concerned.

[rmwill]

Too bad Omega has decided to keep these boutique only to keep the flipper hype alive. The only people Swatch/Omega are owning are those that believed the bullshit behind these garbage knockoffs. Now there are Aliexpress copies of them. My beater Casioak destroys these at less than half the retail price.

[Easy E]

Originally Posted by Oyster Al

You talkin’ about that leaky speedy?

Originally Posted by PureCoconut

New nickname for plastic Speedy.... Leaky.... make it stick lol

How about LeakMaster?

[PureCoconut]

Originally Posted by Easy E

How about LeakMaster?

LeakMaster plays

[Speedbird-1]

Originally Posted by PO 2500D

I don't agree with that comparison, as has been said in terms of quality there are loads of better watches at the moonswatch price point like a G shock (lets make that the Toyota) it's a good value well engineered product, the Moonswatch is poor quality for the asking price, £200 watches shouldn't be leaking dye into your skin or have a crystal that cardboard can scratch, you'd expect that from a £20 Chinese knock off.

On reflection PO2500D, you're probably correct.
I have no experience of the Moonswatch, is it THAT bad?
My daughters had Swatches when they were younger, and the were always reliable and fairly robust, hence the Corolla analogy.

[PureCoconut]

[flyboyyy]

One of the more troubling (yet a bit hilarious) things is the asian rep factories are now starting crank out reps at half the price...with glass crystals on them...thereby probably making them BETTER than the originals, at a much lower price.

Also means the market is about to be flooded with reps, and it'll be likely most of them for sale 2nd hand will be a mix of genuine and rep's...

[Danny83]

Its a fun one got a pluto yesterday


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[dukie748]

Do the subdials actually function?

[Solo118]

Originally Posted by dukie748

Do the subdials actually function?

Why not?

[cryptowalkway]

Originally Posted by BDL

Nothing from Rolex, nor at W&W overall, is as exciting as a $260 plastic Speedy. Even if the Speedy is dying people's wrist.

Here is my other take, I think the 2nd hand market took a blow today. No discontinued hot models means the run up prior to release day had nothing behind it.

Sure there will be a big flip price for the left hander GMT (I like the Riddler the best) at first, but I don't see that having the same demand as other sport models over time. The Air-King is a solid improvement, but honestly how many people are dying to get an Air-King?

The precious metal pieces have always been easier to get from an AD than a Gray.

Overall perhaps ADs get more Subs, GMTs, Explorers and things on the secondary market come down some.

Just my 2 cents.

Mods should ban you for supporting that plastic omega