What time is it? Watches and horology

Bikes thread >>>>>

New page fail

It’s making an assumption that the reason people have stopped ordering bikes is that they believe his waiting list is too long.

That’s certainly a very positive way of saying, in public, “My pipeline of new orders has collapsed from 24 months to 3”.

Viewed against a backdrop of a) economic uncertainty and b) critical influencers like Amey moving into eCargo bikes it is possible to imagine a scenario where it’s not purely a concern about lead times that has lead to said collapse.

Or it could be 100% the lead time thing, I guess.

"Sbgk007 is a stunning dress watch. The case is awesome"

I tried on the blue version a few months ago and had to exercise serious self control not to avail myself of 0% finance to buy shiny wrist jewellery. Perfect office watch.

Having checked out the three dial variants now I’d say the white is my favourite, very closely followed by the blue. I found the black dial a bit matte/charcoal for the overall level of polish.

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/grand-seiko-sbgk005-review

Limited edition yet they seem to have a few kicking around still; how would someone approach the subject of a more sensible price for it, should someone wander in to one of their shops?

Offer 30% less than RRP, wait for response and leave your business card if you're not happy with the shop's offer..

Watch Collection Wednesday anyone?

1 Attachment

That Rolex is nice.

hehe

It's well proper. Only £40 from Thailand.

Still fools people though.

Three of them are 'inheritance' watches though..

Guess which three.

I don't think you will get any discount out of the Grand Seiko boutiques without a history of purchases. I think @Soul got discount from a distributor (can't remember which) on his snowflake. Watches of Mayfair seem to offer discount on GS, but don't know if they would source the model.

Watches of Mayfair are grey market not AD, hence the solid discounts. I shouldn’t think you’d get much of a discount out of the London GS boutique, if anything. Which sucks because it seems that ADs in the US are pretty happy to.

You won't get a discount from a GS boutique full stop. Certainly not in the U.S.

ADs in the U.S. have stopped discounting - the ADs worth their salt anyway, such as Topper and Timeless Lux. Other smaller ADs may give a few percent off, but nothing like the 20% they offered me last year when buying a GS. Retail on a SBGN003 is $3200 before tax. The lowest I could find was $3000. Used in almost new condition was trading around $2400 a month or so ago, so it just made more sense to not buy new. Can order them from Japan for around $2600 IIRC.

Edit: I did not buy whatsoever if that wasn't obvious.

Feels bad man. There’s definitely a push from many manufacturers to put an end to discounting. I saw Ben Clymer weighing in to the comments when Hoodwinkee became an Omega AD saying “no more discounts. Period” or something like that.

Yeah, I mean, I dunno who buys watches from them anyway. They're basically the most expensive place to buy a watch from...

I mean, imagine paying $5,300 for a FOIS.

My GS dreams just died

• @Howard
  
  

I got both my Grand Seiko's from Jura watches. First one i got about 5% off and did 0% finance. Second one i paid cash and got 12%.

They have it in stock....

https://www.chisholmhunter.co.uk/grand-seiko-watch-elegance-steel-9s63-limited-edition-pre-order.html

In Edinburgh, been in the window for some time, worth a call..

The top right three (if we ignore the Casio)

Homage today

1 Attachment

Close. Two out of three.

Big Bill vibes today.

1 Attachment

Forgot about DigitalThursday

Went for vintage

1 Attachment