Reply With QuoteI wonder how Rolex centric that is or would it apply to other brands?
I only go to JLC and L.U.C. Chopard events and the people there really know their stuff. I do have invites from VC, I think I might poke my nose in next time...
Nothing something i would normally attend, but I'd have missed out on being amused greatly by the following conversation.
I'm having a look at the WG Pepsi, and a man comes over obviously interested by something shiny in the display cabinet.
gent : "ooh, is that the Dakota"
sales lady, and my OH both politely correct him, "no that's a Daytona"
sales lady takes the watch out for him to try on.
gent : "ooft that's heavy, is it TITANIUM?" (Platona)
cue picard facepalm with the straightest face possible!
I wonder how Rolex centric that is or would it apply to other brands?
I only go to JLC and L.U.C. Chopard events and the people there really know their stuff. I do have invites from VC, I think I might poke my nose in next time...
I don't see how you'd confuse the two. The Dakota is a pretty distinctive design.Originally Posted by endo
That heaviest of precious metal 'TIT'anium, he certainly was
Any brand probably has a proportion of exceptionally clueless individuals, but i suspect Rolex probably has a abnormally higher ratio than any other brand due to its global recognition/appeal.
In high street ADs I've often heard people comment on the Tiss-hOT range of watches (to be fair a forgivable phonetic mistake)
In a Rolex AD a sales assistant did confess me to me that she "had no clue why that one has 4 hands" (GMT II), so no training on the product then?
It's not just watches and sometimes it the sales staff that are clueless, I once heard in a Ferrari dealer a salesman telling a woman Ferrari were the only manufacturer in the world that made rear wheel drive cars, I nearly spat my coffee across the showroom.
I just tend to get older gentlemen condescendingly advising me that "one day you will be able to afford one of those" when having a quick window shop.
What fun.
I've had that.
I actually responded with a deadpan "Thanks, I've got several already in my collection".
I know I shouldn't have, but I couldn't resist. Patronising old b******.
Sadly, I don't doubt that he could afford one.
Mind you, call me a hypocrite, I'm just like that with cars - I knows what I likes but bugger all idea about them past the shiny paint!
To a dentist?
Reassuring that the staff got it right,
Some shops have the same problem with some of their staff, a couple years ago I was working for an independant that stocked AP and the boss (who once made the Watch pro Hot 100!) asked if we were doing anything for the 100th anniversary of the Royal Oak. He looked confused when I said I hadn't planned that far ahead.
Watch companies also suffer from this lets not forget,
Cartier with "we invented the wristwatch in 1904" marketing campaign
Oakley marking their watches as 100m Hydrophobic
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