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Women's watches have been a hard sell since as long as I can recall.(20-30 years?) I don't know why, but high end women's watches(Rolex, even Patek) are a barg

Women's watches have been a hard sell since as long as I can recall.(20-30 years?) I don't know why, but high end women's watches(Rolex, even Patek) are a bargain in the secondary markets. I feel the Iwatch will eventually be very popular with women. I think it might be the Swatch of the millennial--even baby boomer generation. I'm usually wrong on predicting anything, but why would Apple push this product through(without any redesigns) after all the backlash it has received since they introduced this product? (In all honesty, I really wanted to like this watch. I'm a self taught Horologist who has been working/buying mechanical watches for at least 15 years.)

rimantas 12y ago
If Apple cared about backlash we would not gave iPod, iPhone, iPad, MackBook Air…
- sfjailbird 12y ago
  This point-of-view has been browbeaten into submission, but: Those products were made under the heavy influence of Steve Jobs, and it showed. Read the history, Steve had the vision and was intimately involved in every detail of those products and the business around them, in addition to staffing them with world class people. Apple without Steve Jobs is a very different beast, a completely unknown quantity that has yet to prove itself. So far it is not doing too well IMHO.
Cookingboy 12y ago
I don't think that's true at all. A lot of brands do very well with Women, for example Cartier and their Tank line. Brands such as Chopard also do very well by offering exquisite design and material but uses a Quartz movement. Many women's watch brand don't really market with "fancy in house movements with x complications", that's nerdy stuff for men, they market with material, design, and sell for the jewelry aspect of it, instead of the horology aspect. For example, the Chanel (not even a traditional watch brand) J12 sold very well. I think it uses an ETA 2892 movement but goes for over $25k for the diamond version.

rimantas 12y ago

If Apple cared about backlash we would not gave iPod, iPhone, iPad, MackBook Air…

sfjailbird 12y ago
This point-of-view has been browbeaten into submission, but: Those products were made under the heavy influence of Steve Jobs, and it showed. Read the history, Steve had the vision and was intimately involved in every detail of those products and the business around them, in addition to staffing them with world class people. Apple without Steve Jobs is a very different beast, a completely unknown quantity that has yet to prove itself. So far it is not doing too well IMHO.

Cookingboy 12y ago

I don't think that's true at all. A lot of brands do very well with Women, for example Cartier and their Tank line. Brands such as Chopard also do very well by offering exquisite design and material but uses a Quartz movement. Many women's watch brand don't really market with "fancy in house movements with x complications", that's nerdy stuff for men, they market with material, design, and sell for the jewelry aspect of it, instead of the horology aspect. For example, the Chanel (not even a traditional watch brand) J12 sold very well. I think it uses an ETA 2892 movement but goes for over $25k for the diamond version.