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Contextual init. In this case I don’t really think it’s fine. Wait on the first batch was eight weeks or so iirc?
If it was some fancy artisanal GS with a dial that’s manufactured by a cadre of reclusive monks in the Japanese mountains and the movement by a crew of elite trained southpaw squirrels then maybe… but it’s a bunch of robots doing the work. Just persuade a few to work overtime and get em here for October.
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some fancy artisanal GS with a dial that’s manufactured by a cadre of reclusive monks in the Japanese mountains and the movement by a crew of elite trained southpaw squirrels
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Right, I get where you’re coming from. I expect with these that they have all been manufactured already. The delay between the first batch and the second is totally artificial and, I suspect, something that Seiko are experimenting with as an irritating marketing strategy (false scarcity to drive demand / create hype, then making people on the waitlist feel special - not that that worked on you, lol - when they get The Call).
I do just wonder whether they are not totally sure at this point what size their second allocation will be, exactly. Which would put them in a weird position. Total speculation on my part though.
Last point though, it’s not a £1000 Prospex with a 6R in it, it is significantly more hand-assembled and finished than that and I think it’ll be made at a different facility, probably the one that makes Marinemasters and some mechanical GS movements. Though not properly hand-made like a GS, obviously.
Aroogah
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I think that’s totally fine, but also for watches like this they have the demand in place to be able to ask for full payment so they don’t get people flaking on them when the watch arrives. If you decide you don’t like it when you see it in the metal you don’t have to accept it and they will give you a refund.
It’s not a Rolex type scenario, yet.