25-03-2015, 11:10 AM
You have to hand it to IWC,they really know how to milk the people who buy their watches.This is their latest offering to their unsuspecting buyers. [url]"http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/the-iwc-portugieser-yacht-club-worldtimer">http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/the-iwc-po ... worldtimer[/url]
Now i am not saying this watch looks bad,or is not well made.What i am saying is that it is a complete and utter rip off,at the price they are selling it for.The caliber in this watch is not even made by IWC.
When the Swatch Group refused to sell anymore caliber kits to IWC.They were forced to let ETA make the calibers and deliver them finished to IWC.So what you have here is a caliber not even put together or finished by IWC.I am not saying that IWC do not tweak the caliber a bit,because i do not know this.
They are asking 70.000 dkr for the steel version of this watch.And would you believe 178.200dkr for the gold.This must be a world record for a factory built ETA caliber.I will not name all the other watches you can buy for this kind of money.But it is sufficiant to say that there are so many that offer better quality,that i would need a toilet roll to list them all.
This is one of my all time favorite brands,i am talking about here.But in recent years they are becoming more about branding than watchmaking.I consider this watch to be a complete rip off,and a insult to their public.Buy it at your peril,because it is certainly not going to increase in value or even hold a good used price in the future.
Now i am not saying this watch looks bad,or is not well made.What i am saying is that it is a complete and utter rip off,at the price they are selling it for.The caliber in this watch is not even made by IWC.
When the Swatch Group refused to sell anymore caliber kits to IWC.They were forced to let ETA make the calibers and deliver them finished to IWC.So what you have here is a caliber not even put together or finished by IWC.I am not saying that IWC do not tweak the caliber a bit,because i do not know this.
They are asking 70.000 dkr for the steel version of this watch.And would you believe 178.200dkr for the gold.This must be a world record for a factory built ETA caliber.I will not name all the other watches you can buy for this kind of money.But it is sufficiant to say that there are so many that offer better quality,that i would need a toilet roll to list them all.
This is one of my all time favorite brands,i am talking about here.But in recent years they are becoming more about branding than watchmaking.I consider this watch to be a complete rip off,and a insult to their public.Buy it at your peril,because it is certainly not going to increase in value or even hold a good used price in the future.
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