Post pics of your watches Part II

I wonder with the new Batman movie will Rolex batman's go up in price...just to round it out swartz :)

Is that a Barton canvas strap? Thinking of getting one to try on my own flieger maybe green or a leather nato. I'm going to pick up a spare brown strap from Stowa too and I might get the black one to though I'm usually not a fan of black leather always preferred brown.

Probably more to do with the original comic book versions.

Finally pulled the trigger on this Black Bay Heritage 41mm last weekend. Weirs we’re out of stock and Sheerans wouldn’t budge on the price so luckily Dawson Jewellers had a practically new watch!

I’m already on the hunt for a nice nato and rubber straps for it so any suggestions welcome!

I’ve an Everest rubber strap, wasn't particularly cheap, but very happy with it.

100% spot on. Got a seamaster pro a few weeks ago. Almost new. Think the guy bought it in AD in Caens in France September 2021. Issue with the clasp last weekend. Brought it into AD in Cork today. Flashed the warranty card from the AD in Caens. No problem.

@893bet thats a fabulous watch, classy without being brash. @893bet

@Pablo_Fox: that's very nice.

However, every time I looked at the dial, I would not be able to stop the refrain in my head — "Nevermore"

Great post. That said I heard the other day on one of the watch channels that AP are now going to do exactly that: go boutique only. AP is far smaller than Rolex so that move would make a lot less sense as their costs / overheads etc. per watch sold would be many times higher?

They must reckon they can get 3-4 times the margin per watch if they go it themselves (and significantly up the prices of the watches over the next few years). I doubt they will be proven wrong.

Of course. No reason why they couldn't up the retail prices to the current grey market prices. That's what I would do if I owned AP 😁

Ah of course it will take some time, but there is no reason the likes of Rolex should sell a Daytona for €10k when they can get €30k for it, up the prices by about 8-9% twice a year and it won't take long

Because the number of people willing to pay 30k for a Daytona is very small, far smaller than the number of Daytona's. They already up the prices slowly 5-6% per year.. Also if the resale market is destroyed with RRP increases it kills the "investment" bit of the watch,l kills demand, kills the flipper market.....it is a nice idea, but the devil in all things is the nuance. You start making a stainless steel watch that costs 1k to manufacture into a 30k watch and people will soon loose interest. Rolex is mid tier stuff, aspirational brand. Kill the hope of having one...kill the brand.

Every Rolex Daytona ever made was sold at retail once to somebody..... Make it 30k and a lot of people simply wont be able to afford it or see the value in it. How many datejusts would Rolex shift without the Daytona et al in the background as the rewards? You can avoid paying 30k by having the patience of Job and being willing to take dozens of small losses on other watches.

AP is the same they use the hype models to shift code 11.59, remasters Jules Audemars and millinaries. It suits them to have ungettable cheap investment hype watches. Remove the low price and remove the incentive. They already double their profit cause they make you buy a couple of Chrono 11.59;s to even go on a list for a Royal oak. I can walk into Weirs tomorrow and buy a 150k complicated patek out of the case....People want these watches because they are cheap, ever considered why people want stainless.....its cause its cheap, its attainable. AP likes the stainless models to by hyped and cheap...builds recognition for the gold watches and the turbillions, and the iced out stuff where they actually make their money. Why kill the goose selling the golden eggs.

In business you can skin alive customer once or work on the repeat business model. These old watch companies think more about the long term position than eeking a few extra euros of profit out today and risk destroying the market or loosing position. Its a carefully thought out strategy. It would be myopic and dumb for them to case grey market profits. That is a unsustainable model for a manufacturer.Crying laughing emoji's aside I think you are missing the bigger picture here....the watch market for manufacturers is not Hyped stainess sports watches....those are the entry level watches, the good will builders and the lures to get people to buy the stuff they actually want to sell, that has massive margins.

Hate this new quote format but anyway... "the watch market for manufacturers is not Hyped stainess sports watches....those are the entry level watches, the good will builders and the lures to get people to buy the stuff they actually want to sell, that has massive margins"

I'd disagree with that. Product tiering and artificial scarcity are common models across many types of products and industries. In all cases, the key market is always the entry/lower-mid tier because that is where volume sales are. Unless you are operating a model where you are a tiny volume self-producer with no concerns about consistent supply chain, then any business needs turnover more than it does margin. Consistent, stable sales volume allows a manufacturing business to maintain supply chain, staff, production facilities etc. Occasional high-margin sales is never sustainable and is actually why so many luxury brands go under.

A "halo" product such as a 150k Patek exists not to be the prime sales goal for the manufacturer, it exists to persuade the volume buyers that your lower tier models are something worth buying, and maybe pay a smaller premium over what the market is set for similar volume pieces from other brands. You can look at any market and see the same thing - a silicon chip manufacturer spits out hundreds of thousands of the same chip, separates them by quality, and sells the lowest quality at high volumes at lower prices. The best performing chips from the same batch could be 99% the same, but exist in smaller quantities, and may be many multiples of the price of the entry level to create a "halo" product which hypes the brand. In some cases, the "halo" product doesn't even exist (various GPU launches over the last decade have been nothing more than "paper" launches with no physical product ever shipping except in SEC-satisfying "we didn't technically lie" ghost sales).

Nvidia may sell the biggest and best GPU, but its margins and market dominance is all based on its entry level cards.

Beautiful, congrats!