Aquanaut purchase yesterday

[cygnus]

Love the 5164 but price and discounts now are awful, a few years ago you could get them for under £20K.

As you say lovely watch prices and discounts are just crazy I remember the day in 1998 when you could buy a nautilus with power reserve discounted for £4500 crazy when one thinks back all changing interesting to see what the future holds on all this pricing.

[bigweb]

Awesome watch

[tom waring]

Paul Pluta - a.k.a. Archie Luxury says he is a 'method actor'........ well, he's either an incredible actor or a complete lunatic! His reviews are barking!
Great watch! Enjoy.


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[spogehead]

PP has never really grabbed me but i do like this - very nice!

[lasz]

Basically the less popular models that they need to shift in order to get more quota of the popular stuff they will discount on. In this vein you can get 10% off the travel time version but no more than that as its still quite popular. They will drop their pants on a Gondolo or one of the blingy ladies' Nautili as they don't sell many.

I've seen this described a couple of times already, so I have to ask: why do manufacturers produce these unpopular models and then force them upon the dealers? I understand that you can't inundate the market with the popular ones so as to keep them desirable and exclusive, but why bother making stuff that's hard to sell? It's not as if the margin is greater on them for the manufacturer (or at least I don't see how it could be) - you'd think they'd instead endeavour to replace the unpopular ones with new models, rather than act as if they weren't unpopular, which they surely must be aware of.