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12 December 2023, 10:44 PM | #1 |
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Universal Geneve - Relaunch !!
A great brand with rich history and awesome models back in the days.
Lets hope for the best ! Im very curious to see what's next with first models out https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/it...p-as-breitling |
13 December 2023, 12:46 AM | #2 |
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nice! waiting for nina rindt to reissue!
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13 December 2023, 01:10 AM | #3 |
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Good news.
Starting price of the base model. 7999 usd, then some special models at 10-15k usd. Am I doing this right? It's crazy how a brand that has been gone for so long can jump in out of nowhere and set such prices. No way they will linger around the 3-5k mark because that's for brands like Longines etc. |
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Big fan of UG, I think this is good news. UG back in the day was a competitor to Rolex/Omega etc etc, so I think they will price in that ball park.
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13 December 2023, 07:05 AM | #6 |
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Universal Geneve - Relaunch !!
Seems at first glance to be the absolute best scenario for the brand to be brought back. Georges + Fred and the team at Breitling did such a good job refreshing Breitling if you’re into vintage re-editions. If the playbook is the same there’s so many cool pieces in the UG catalogue they are going to be hard to pass up.
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Congratulations.
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28 March 2024, 03:43 AM | #9 |
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Beautiful.
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26 November 2024, 07:32 AM | #10 |
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Interesting to see whether they can relaunch the brand. It was an extremely venerable company, the reference site has a great photo of Harry Truman at the Potsdam conference wearing a Tri-Compax.
Wish I could see the face; a while ago I acquired a rare reference 12267, made between 1946-49. I've never seen the exact reference for sale, it has the cleanest of what is a family of very crowded faces! https://universalgeneve.info/content/6-history |
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Then leave Breitling at mid tier. And are planning on buying another brand to sell a lower tier watch. (A brand known mostly for chronographs.) Sounds like a good plan to me. |
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29 November 2024, 09:10 PM | #13 |
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Zenith is not a lower tier watch, it will never be.
I put them above Breitling actually. UG will have to work some years to take the crown again, there is a huge potential in it. Everything points in that direction |
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It will be marketing and hype to start with followed with extreme pricing and then just a footnote for most.
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30 November 2024, 01:47 AM | #16 |
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Under Breitlng? That is interesting.
Both brands could use an anchor piece that is not a chronograph.
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Though they haven’t produced in a quite a while, the next steps with the piece may or may not help to establish it? Certainly not conclusive but I am rooting for them.
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The new ones look pretty nice to me.
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1 December 2024, 01:36 PM | #20 |
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They do look nice though the darker dials (in the photos) appear illegible to me?
The silver dial is compelling.
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I think the legibility was effected by the distance and the angle.
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1 December 2024, 01:48 PM | #22 |
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Look forward to seeing them in the metal.
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