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Price: $1,888,000 US dollars.
by EB-Barrington 4y ago
Price: $1,888,000 US dollars.
- W-Stool 4y agoLimited run of only 150 units! Sheesh ...
- leeoniya 4y agoone of the few watch brands (the only one?) that makes a ferrari look cheaper than a clearance item at a dollar store.
- formerly_proven 4y agoIs there are meaning behind this number (apart from nazism, obviously)? Otherwise it seems kinda odd.
- chris11 4y agoIn China 8 is considered to be a really lucky number, signifying wealth. https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/it-s-in-the-numbers-luck-and-superstition-sell-luxury-real-estate-42303 https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/it-s-in-the-numbers-l...
- FabHK 4y agoIndeed. Note that Swiss Watch exports to Hong Kong alone (7m inhabitants) were more than to the USA (330m inhabitants) in the last decade, until HK's recent demise. Asia is a 3 to 4 times bigger market than North America; Europe is between those. So, it is no wonder that the number 8 figures prominently. In 2021, in Swiss watch exports in CHF bn: to USA, China about 3 each; HK about 2; Japan about 1.5; Italy, Germany, Singapore, UAE, France about 1 each. http://www.fhs.swiss/scripts/getstat.php?file=histo_regions_220505_a.pdf http://www.fhs.swiss/scripts/getstat.php?file=histo_regions_... http://www.fhs.swiss/pdf/regions_210112_a.pdf http://www.fhs.swiss/pdf/regions_210112_a.pdf
- layer8 4y ago1888 is the year that, when written in Roman numerals, has the most digits (so far). But it’s probably just to make it seem more of a bargain than $1,999,000.
- __del__ 4y agowe should be able to write MDCCCLXXXVIII as MCXIIM
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- yomkippur 4y agowhat sort of yearly income do you need to be able to buy this? I assume people in this tier just pay cash and already own a sizable Ferrari collection. Otherwise with 30% down. current market interest rates, you would be looking at $20,000 / month to lease it. So you could flex considerably as a double digit millionaire. Its just fascinating how wealthy some people are and how limitless it is.
- layer8 4y agoYou may like to read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/comment/cnnmca8/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/comment/c...
- yomkippur 4y agoinsane...so you need at minimum upper 3 digits. i got anxiety from reading it. it almost seems like at the very top, its lonely and dehumanizing when every whim challenge is met leading to time scarcity. i think the sweet spot is $270MM. 250MM generating 3~5% a year, 20MM in cash. you can buy everything but wouldnt spend it on this watch (you shouldnt) which means this watch is for ppl with 800MM minimum.
- dqpb 4y agoThis is not for people who work for a living. It’s also probably not for people who gained their fortune via their own intelligence.
- throwamon 4y agoApparently that's also how much you have to pay to get a device that won't choke on their website.
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoIt's impressive that they've actually managed to make the websites for these products as overwrought and unnecessary as the products themselves. There must be a very happy web design team somewhere in there world that's been told "you don't need to care about any kind of optimisation, our clients will always have the tippest-top computers and phones and so that you get it right we're going to buy one for each of you too, just in case you accidentally do something that makes it work on a pleb-grade device".
- dreamcompiler 4y agoThis strikes me as a product that the Chinese could copy and mass-produce for -- I dunno -- $500? And it would work 75% as well. I don't see a huge barrier to entry here except for IP, which never stops the Chinese.
- s0rce 4y agoTiny titanium parts aren't trivial to machine and tolernaces need to be tight to get them interchangeable and have them work. Not sure if all the parts are made by conventional machining, if so, probably doable, if it needs chemical etching or EDM might cost more.
- josephcsible 4y agoDo the parts need to be titanium for the watch to work? If not, then the Chinese counterfeits will just use aluminum or something instead.
- s0rce 4y agoGood point, probably not, I don't know if you could get the wear resistance with aluminum but probably steel.
- dghlsakjg 4y agoFrom what I understand the Chinese are still working on duplicating far more common movements from the likes of Omega and Rolex. They have certainly mastered the external components, but the giveaway for fake chinese watches is always the movement. I could be wrong, but I have yet to see a teardown of a superfake where the movement held up to even amateur scrutiny.
- Kirby64 4y agoGood superfakes of the Rolex submariners come with a cloned movement that looks pretty damn close to the real thing. It's not just a generic movement shoved into a rolex-like case anymore. Either way, all rolexs have closed casebacks, so nobody is gonna even be able to see it. If the exterior looks correct, nobody is going to notice. But, the Rolex 3135 is a 30+ year old movement, so you'd hope modern technology could copy it pretty well by now.