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New Aquanaut by ZF is comming.
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grilledcheese
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B0j
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Guess they are going to release 10 more Breitlings before they appease us. I can’t wait for this and the 5296 they will be releasing much longer lol.
Repworld
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A near perfect Nautilus and Aquanaut in terms of size, dw and finish will sell like hot cake. I don't understand why fatories with higher requtation don't get in the game.
In the gen world a used Nautilus 5711 costs more than the retail price of a new one because of the high demand.
This is true if we are ralking about the new BLRO, Daytona, Sea Dweller. What about Explorer, Oyster Perpetual and Datejust models? Can we say the same thing? What about all those ugly Royal Oak Offshore models?
Keylog74
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Not only BLRO, Daytona, Sea Dweller.. Ceramic subs too.
OP and DJ are not considered as Rolex sports watches.
I guess I couldn't make myself clear. All the reputable factories are working on models that are not as popular as Nautilus or Aquanaut. I know what Op or DJ is. Do you think that Nautilus rep will sell less than those? I understand the fact that buying a gen to copy is is much much more expensive and this may be the reason that draws them back from such project.
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I’d invest in the project...if I were in with the factories etc.
Can’t see why they can’t raise £40k for a gen.
That’s peanuts.
So many wealthy Asian business men in HK and they can’t raise 40k (plus usual R&D for development required for any rep).
They could sell the reps for $600 each. Why not? PF charge $500.
But then again the factories are not stupid. Maybe the PF sales figures have not been in the same ball park as Rolex sales.
So factories probably thinking, even if the quality of replication is improved significantly, it won’t increase sales by many orders of magnitude to compete with the rep Rolex market. I don’t know, just speculation
Can’t see why they can’t raise £40k for a gen.
That’s peanuts.
So many wealthy Asian business men in HK and they can’t raise 40k (plus usual R&D for development required for any rep).
They could sell the reps for $600 each. Why not? PF charge $500.
But then again the factories are not stupid. Maybe the PF sales figures have not been in the same ball park as Rolex sales.
So factories probably thinking, even if the quality of replication is improved significantly, it won’t increase sales by many orders of magnitude to compete with the rep Rolex market. I don’t know, just speculation
MarksandSpencer
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Same, if I were them I would even hire many of the experts on the forums as consultants. Over 75% of the issues people have with new releases can be solved if they simply looked at the forums or learnt from past releases.
I understand the logic that some argue that factories make mistakes on purpose to continue making money from future releases, but it doesn't make sense to me as most of the time with a new release to fix 1 thing, they mess up a couple things they got right before. Even your idea on a previous post about having in-house modding can pay huge dividends for factories/TD's. Then again, apparently only a small percentage of business resonates from these forums.
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