Reply With QuoteGood for youOriginally Posted by JPCain86
For me if you buy something from eBay and there's nothing wrong with it. I.e. don't bond with it. You have to just sell it on. Although eBay will allow you to return it I doesn't make it right. Especially with something you have worn.
Good for you
Possibly a few are but I would imagine most are just out to re sell at a profit
Good to know. Another to avoid.
Mine arrived, ditched the original strap straight away and have ordered a couple more alternatives. But for the time being it's on this:
Love the moonwatch case and colour scheme. But downsides are the chrono 2nd hand doesn't reset to the same place each time - varies by less than a second but still. It's only a 60 min chrono - the top right subdial is for 10ths of a second. And the white hour markers have no lume. So it's very much style over substance but I knew that going in.
That’s a good look with the new strap.
Is there no lume on any of the watch??Mine arrived, ditched the original strap straight away and have ordered a couple more alternatives. But for the time being it's on this:
Love the moonwatch case and colour scheme. But downsides are the chrono 2nd hand doesn't reset to the same place each time - varies by less than a second but still. It's only a 60 min chrono - the top right subdial is for 10ths of a second. And the white hour markers have no lume. So it's very much style over substance but I knew that going in.
I thought they did have lume
I presume it would not be very good just like other Swatches but thought it would be there
Edit: just checked on line and there is lume on these and it does not look too bad from images on Google
Last edited by Sinnlover; 3rd July 2022 at 11:16.
Yea, i looked and seems they do.
has the guy below got a fake maybe if theres no lume??
My mistake, it does have lume on the hour markers after all, but it's fainter than the lume on the hands.
Still not seen one of these in the flesh and not sure id want to pay over RRP to own one but would be nice to have them in the collection all the same.
It seems the in store only policy is coming from the top of Swatch!, in a recent interview Hayek said he thought buyers would have to treat it as an adventure and the limited stocks would only add to the thrill of the chase.Swatch are saying now that these won’t be available online but in stores only so the madness will continue by the looks
https://professionalwatches.com/moon...duced-further/
Hmm, me thinks he’s lost touch with reality.
Last edited by robcuk; 3rd July 2022 at 21:29.
People are free to disagree with me but - anyone chasing these watches seems to be suffering from the same issue.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
Read the same interview - dense stench of bovine ordure hanging over it. They've bolloxxed what might have been their biggest ever product launch, and now history is being hastily rewritten.
You can p*ss people about with artificial scarcity and intelligence-insulting sales tactics if you're making tiny numbers of hand-crafted watches and selling each one for many thousands...
£250 throwaway plastic watches: not so much.
I still fancy one of these.
Prices on StockX are hovering around £300 now for several versions. Tempting...
What is odd is the seeming lack of Neptunes. Lots of most of the others, but none of these. Shame, as it's my favourite. Possibly the colour leaching issue?
Saw a mission to mars and one of the others (can't remember which) up for sale in a shop (not swatch) Sunday not over impressed with the look at all, looked a bit cheap overall IMO
after your preferred search term, you can list words to exclude. So searching for omega and avoiding swatch would be:
Omega, -swatch
They are only available in selected Swatch shops. Was the place you saw them selling them at an inflated price?
I didn't see the price and didnt ask but would assume so it's a used dealer
Didn’t know about that , many thanks just tried it and worked perfectly
Oxford St, 8.15am
Last edited by gunner; 7th July 2022 at 16:11.
^^^ Amazing, still going on. Still an opportunity to make money, I guess.
There's an equation to be done to calculate at what stage the eBay profit margin will no longer warrant queuing like this.
They seem a friendly bunch.Oxford St, 8.15am
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Looks like a bunch of enthusiastic horologists, not a single reseller in sight.Oxford St, 8.15am
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Having said that, no idea what a horologist is meant to look like!
There are whispers of severe production difficulties with the Neptune. As you say, the colour leeching issue.
See this from May earlier in the thread: #1000: Neptune to be suspended/discontinued. Allegedly.
TZ GTG?Oxford St, 8.15am
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I think the Neptune has been discontinued due to the colour issue. May return when fixed.
Can’t see a single pair of red wings or a Belstaff in that queue
Barbour/Belstaff jacket in either XS or XXXL. MX-5 key ring, tactical manbag (containing a Faberge egg, 3 pairs of sunglasses, part used fragrance plus some second hand shoes and a Mont Blanc pen)
Likely to be wearing either jeans from Primark or £350 obscure Japanese selvedge denim that creaks like a Victorian staircase and haven’t been washed. Ever. And a pair of Church’s.
Holding a bubble bath bottle shaped like a Dalek...
Has this thread had a haircut? Was there not an email response from the Oxford Street store detailed or did I read that somewhere else?
The other thread
“Remarkable admission” or thereabouts
Wrong Swatch thread.
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?513430
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I wonder how many Swatch store managers have made a tidy packet selling Moonswatches out the back door, cash in hand. You'd be mad not to!
Last edited by J J Carter; 8th July 2022 at 18:43.
I’ve just soiled myself
No problem, just bang them on SC (as long as they are an unusual size).
Don't worry, this will only continue until the mugs willing to pay over the odds have got their's.
No, I don't want one.
Still laughing at "creaks like a Victorian staircase"! Thanks for that.
Don’t forget the obligatory beard
Well as a gateway drug the Moonswatch has worked
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...sion-goes-wild
Hmm. Can't imagine he'd say otherwise.
“Hayek said sales of all Speedmaster models have “risen by double digits,” since the MoonSwatch debuted.”
So they’ve sold, what, 12 more?
I agree, because I’m one of those people that finally got round to buying a speedy (on Sales Corner though). It was always a watch to have in the collection, but somehow never got round to it. I figured I’d want to own the “real thing” if I ever got the Swatch ones as I’d always feel it was missing!
32x32, no chance of them flogging.
Ah, both way too narrow and way too long for SC. 42x26 the average?
Yep, agree with that
Went into a Jaguar dealership yesterday and the salesperson was wearing the Moon version. He said he'd bought two with his partner in Switzerland recently in a boutique where they'd just had a delivery. He let me have a look at it but it seems like a really tacky and cheap-feeling item and instantly distinguishable from the real thing. Can't see the attraction at all (except for dealers, obviously ££££).
Was waiting for a coffee at a cafe in Cannes this morning and 3 American guys were all proudly posing with their new Moon Swatches. I asked, and apparently there was a Swatch store a short walk away, but not to bother going as there was a long queue. Not that I would buy one anyway! Madness.
They really have captured the imagination. They must be patting the marketing department on the back. Bonuses all round!
If indeed these have been the success that has been claimed, I wonder what other brands are willing to sacrifice themselves in the pursuit of more profit…
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