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Last point though, it’s not a £1000 Prospex with a 6R in it
I have one of the blue SLA versions - the finishing is very different to the 6R jobbies - I’ve owned two - which feel very ‘flat’ in comparison. We know that the SLAs are not GS though, and the neither one thing nor the otherness of them is problematic when trying to do some bullshit availability model imho.
Reckon the folks that might want one of these will want them at the point of release, too. Getting one six months later feels like turning up to an exclusive do just as the DJ is packing his shiz away and the after party is well underway somewhere that you are not.
All feels like a muddle to me, interesting to see how it pans out.
Howard
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.