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29 January 2018, 02:43 PM | #512 | |
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Rolex builds Rolex watches and they are the best in the world at doing that. There are plenty of companies that try to out Rolex Rolex, but nobody has even come close. They build good watches, but Rolex, they are not. Patek could never compete directly with Rolex doing what Rolex does or vice versa. That's almost as silly as suggesting that Rolex should emulate Philippe Dufour's model and produce one watch per year or that Philippe Dufour should start churning out a million watches a year from his one-man atilier.
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True. And I believe potentially a blue/blue gmt the year before.
But he hit on the sea dweller increase to 43mm, the cyclops addition, and the red script a month before Basel. There is no way he could call that without a connection. And he called the ceramic Daytona weeks before Basel with a photoshop that was identical. So the people who say that "no one knows but Rolex" are just flat wrong. As far as the wrong calls, I can only figure that misinformation gets floated around pre-Basel that perhaps he becomes privy to. Because a couple of weeks before he accurately called the sd43 to the letter, he was prognosticating green script on it. Or, and an even more scintillating possibility, Rolex is still contemplating different release options into February and the Red/black gmt and blue/blue gmt was still a consideration as late as February. Either way, I'm a fan because he has bona fides and as good a track record of predicting Rolex releases as anyone. Can't wait to see what he forecasts for this year. |
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I was reading an article about Louis Vuitton and since November their most popular bags are hard to find. They cut production so they could concentrate their efforts on bags that cost over 10k. Production should resume back to normal by spring.
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Technically it would seem you're right. The Daytona C and SD43 predictions were too exact to be guesses. But when the right ones are outnumbered by the wrong ones, that diminishes the effectiveness of the correct ones as predictions. Readers are still left to guess which ones might actually happen. The correct predictions are only evident in hindsight. It's still fun to read and wonder, though.
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am I the only one who starts at the last page and works there way backwards???
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I’m not doubting G’s information. I was at the Winn in Vegas to day and the salesperson claimed that production had not changed on SS sport models. He said that the vast majority of it was being shipped to the emerging Chinese markets. Just passing along what I was told. Oh, they had nothing in stock.
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Yes, very likely. As I said previously, companies do this all the time and usually is short term Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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29 January 2018, 05:43 PM | #523 |
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Datejust is the most sold model of Rolex. They get along fine just by selling datejusts. Rolex is a charity foundation based, so their values differ from shareholder based entities.
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29 January 2018, 07:48 PM | #526 |
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Thanks for passing along the information G
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My AD said exactly the same thing back in the fall. He did not say production of SS references had slowed, he said shipments had slowed to the west, due to the focus being made to Chinese market. I guess we shall see what unfolds in the coming months. EDIT: I suppose Symantec’s aside it’s the same result for us here in others parts of the world |
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If Rolex can make fewer, but finer watches, then that's no bad thing.
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Off topic, but Apple will cut Q1 iPhone X production in half compared to last quarter.
Maybe a Megatrend is forming among companies - perhaps planning for a dip in demand due to some projected downturn in global financial markets? Sent from my iPhoneX using Tapatalk
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Considering China and Hong Kong account for 28% of buyers of watches by value, followed by the US at 10%, I'm not surprised Rolex decided to prioritise these markets by reallocating ressources.
I can understand the backlog with huge waiting lists, but what surprises me is the concept of custom orders. Can someone from HK or China shed some light on this? What sort of non standard features would buyers ask from their ADs, typically? I find this fascinating. https://www.statisticbrain.com/wrist...ry-statistics/ |
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I really like the getting rid of the old stock because a new movement is coming out theory..
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I have heard from a reliable source that rolex is stoppjng production of automatic movements to make way for quartztopium movements
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Rolex are shipping as much as they can to China because they Chinese are throwing money at Rolex, any production/sales/stock issues in the rest of the world are purely as a result of the majority of watches going to China, I have no doubt. |
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My guess ( using imaginary round numbers):
Rolex sell 1 million Submariners per year, but this year they intend to release an updated model and have it available shortly after launch. So, 2 years ago, ( give or take), they planned that this year they'd only make 800,000 complete Subs and keep back 200,000 case sets in which to plonk the new movements. Unforseen higher demand eats through the 800,000 units by midyear, resulting in Sub drought. Manufacturing for this year has already been assigned to the updated version, but it's decided that a limited quantity of the 200,000 previously held back case sets are to be released, with existing movement, to tide over the market until post Basel, when the new version is launched. Then Swatch buys Rolex. And maybe Amazon... |
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CONFIRMED news regarding the professional line
Wouldn’t surprise me if they are “correcting” supply levels. They probably still make enough money on their other non-sport lines.
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I believe Ferrari cut production on purpose as well......it's anyone's guess.
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