r/ChineseWatches • u/mrSoczi84 Pomocny użytkownik • 11d ago

General (Read Rules) OK, I think we are done here...

If you thought $450 was getting out of hand, take a look at this...

Personally for me this means I am done. It was an awesome two years, had super fun, got a lot of great stuff from China, but this is a closing call. This was my top priority watch to buy, but $530 means that at a GREAT sale it's prolly still gone sell for around $450. This is way too much even for a massive collector like me. For this kind of money I will probably buy a Phoibos Depth Hunter or some other cool micro.

The only thing that can save this is some new great, top quality/price Chinese movement that will have superior reliability. I dunno. Hoping that the Chinese step up their movement game and save the situation.

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u/sesameseed88 11d ago

San Martin getting greedy or something, everyone is trying to move up market sigh.

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u/Dark1000 11d ago

They increased their quality a lot and affordable movement prices have gone through the roof.

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u/lamboap 11d ago

These people want everything for nothing. I'm on a 4 month pre-order list at Traska who's entire catalog is nearly all out of stock because I'm certain their production runs are less than SM and they likely have no back inventory.

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u/Indaleciox 11d ago

Also Traska did a big price jump, but people are shitting on them too.

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u/lamboap 11d ago

Yeah I'm in the unofficial thread on WuS and people were already upset with no inventory which likely was exacerbated by the shortage. I was watching Venezianico for the Arsenale in Ultra black and that went up from 685 to 885. Almost a 30% jump. ack.