Random musings and general banter.

[EmmaP]

Think Arc at must be a West Country thing, as you don’t hear many say it

 

[historymystery]

Quote from Sally "it's got the quilting of Chanel, it's not Chanel". So why mention Chanel?

I think she meant it was dredged out of the Channel.... It's OK though - they've dried it out by putting it in front of the IW radiators.

 

[Wanderer]

It would need to be intensive and very long term - the therapeutic process for trauma on this level hasn’t yet been invented

I am certain Opatra have a therapeutic device on the drawing board right now for this problem.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

No chips for me with his large plates in there…

 

[Samki]

No chips for me with his large plates in there…

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Chef mark could legitimately throw water at this one

 

[Wanderer]

No chips for me with his large plates in there…

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What is with chips & cheese?

 

[Duke of Cheese]

That’s me done….

 

[Muttley]

It would need to be intensive and very long term - the therapeutic process for trauma on this level hasn’t yet been invented

I've found someone quite cheap. She says she has a lot of medical experience and often speaks at seminars. She's from Burnley

 

[Wanderer]

I've found someone quite cheap. She says she has a lot of medical experience and often speaks at seminars. She's from Burnley

A specialist in aversion therapy?

 

[EmmaP]

I've found someone quite cheap. She says she has a lot of medical experience and often speaks at seminars. She's from Burnley

She was saying earlier she has a medical talk about Blood Work being announced next Week, and Doctors around the world will be sent it

 

[Wanderer]

That’s me done….

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[PhædrusR]

I’ve seen it all now.
Have a look at the IW price of this….
It’s worth no more than £30.

I can only assume they are doing what ResultCo said all those years ago about their range - pricing them ‘optimistically’ so the client can appear to offer enormous savings.

I truly think this is disgusting.

I wonder if anyone actually buys them from IW at this price?

Without wishing to stereotype the average IW consumer, they don't strike me as having thousands of pounds to splash out on watches, especially on non-mainstream brands.

I know there's the odd 'watch collector' who buy IW watches for their prize collection, but even so £2.4k for a non-tourbillon, or even for a tourbillon, usually £1k+ on IW, so this seems a lot.

Or is it so that later when being sold for £130 later, they can claim you're getting a 2 and a half grand watch worth it all day long, for a hundred plus.

MFI used to do the same thing. Price up a sofa in Aberdeen for 30 days, then sell it at 'half Price', everywhere later on.

 

[Professor Branestawm]

I wonder if anyone actually buys them from IW at this price?

Without wishing to stereotype the average IW consumer, they don't strike me as having thousands of pounds to splash out on watches, especially on non-mainstream brands.

I know there's the odd 'watch collector' who buy IW watches for their prize collection, but even so £2.4k for a non-tourbillon, or even for a tourbillon, usually £1k+ on IW, so this seems a lot.

Or is it so that later when being sold for £130 later, they can claim you're getting a 2 and a half grand watch worth it all day long, for a hundred plus.

MFI used to do the same thing. Price up a sofa in Aberdeen for 30 days, then sell it at 'half Price', everywhere later on.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head there - though as Hammy said, they might’ve mispriced it as a flying tourbillon as well.
I’m just wondering how someone buying it might feel when they bring it me for a service and I give them a price (say £200) that exceeds the value of the watch, and suggest I just buy another cheapo movement for them and drop it in - which is generally what we’d agree to do.