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Fifty fathoms finally!!!!
- Thread starter hurk
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If the V2 is cheaper, I'll buy your V1 for what you paid for it, as that's the caring type of guy I am!
- 15/4/07
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That'd be nice of you Alex, if I had the V1 in the first place.
Either you knew that and were taunting me or ... you really do care. (Insert hug emo here.. no homo.)
When and where has it been published that there is a v2?
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Ok. I thought I had missed something. Here's mine on a custom combat strap. Its worth the wait!
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This might be total BS, but it what I was told by a TD:
Noob have run out of movements for these watches, the TD managed to get 50 movements and Noob agreed to build them into the otherwise finished watches and let him sell them. This is apparently the batch which hit the shelves earlier this week and sold out in one evening.
As for the rest of batch two, it sounds like watches are built but movements are needed, hence why other TDs keep saying "10 days" and then "don't know" then "soon, hopefully".
That'd explain why a few people got QC pics but all the back orders didn't get cleared...
Shiet if that is all they need, I will send them my own movement. lol Quit wasting time. I'd rather a gen 2824 anyway.
+1
Ill send two movements and just want one watch in return
Sorry to hear that they haven't cleared the pre-orders yet. I placed my order with Ryan on Sunday, approved the QC's on Tuesday and the watch was shipped out on Wednesday. Just at the right place on the right time I guess.
That's just so messed up. The procrastinators now seem to have had a better sense of timing! Hopefully, the scarcity is over soon, though I can't imagine how the movement became scarce in the first place. Chinese government crackdown on counterfeits working? I know, I know, I could not hold my mirth either!
The plot thickens...
I've been speaking to another person well placed in the industry and he has told me that Noob Factory has pretty much closed down due to the owner wanting to retire. He has passed a lot of his staff and stock onto what we now as J12 Factory, hence why a lot of Noob watches have gone "out of stock" seemingly permanently when they could have sold 5 times as many, and J12 are starting to turn out improved versions of the V2 and 3 Noob sub.
The final part I found super interesting is that TDs can't buy direct from J12, they have to use the AD for J12 products known as Z-fac...
I find this really interesting as, apparently, not all TDs have the same influence with Z-fac and so those who used to have ready access to Noob products may no longer. It also makes me wonder who makes the Tudor Black Bay rep, as I think we assumed Z-Fac made them?
The good news is that more Fifty Fathoms are on the way, it'll just be a drip feed and the backlog might not get cleared "fairly" as some dealers might get fewer than others.
Again, all of the above is just what I've been told by someone I don't think has any case to spread misinformation.
I've been speaking to another person well placed in the industry and he has told me that Noob Factory has pretty much closed down due to the owner wanting to retire. He has passed a lot of his staff and stock onto what we now as J12 Factory, hence why a lot of Noob watches have gone "out of stock" seemingly permanently when they could have sold 5 times as many, and J12 are starting to turn out improved versions of the V2 and 3 Noob sub.
The final part I found super interesting is that TDs can't buy direct from J12, they have to use the AD for J12 products known as Z-fac...
I find this really interesting as, apparently, not all TDs have the same influence with Z-fac and so those who used to have ready access to Noob products may no longer. It also makes me wonder who makes the Tudor Black Bay rep, as I think we assumed Z-Fac made them?
The good news is that more Fifty Fathoms are on the way, it'll just be a drip feed and the backlog might not get cleared "fairly" as some dealers might get fewer than others.
Again, all of the above is just what I've been told by someone I don't think has any case to spread misinformation.
he already retired and enjoying good life, nfac is headed by a new chief. (was his left right hand man, now the chief) You see maker usually don't sell/distribute themselves, they have appointed "AD"s, they do exist in the rep world too..
he already retired and enjoying good life, nfac is headed by a new chief. (was his left right hand man, now the chief) You see maker usually don't sell/distribute themselves, they have appointed "AD"s, they do exist in the rep world too..
Thanks for the info. As someone on the user-end it really is quite interesting to know how this actually does work (as another member here stated). Especially dealing with a product like replicas, knowing how they are seen by governments and whatnot