Heuer 160th Anniversary/ Carrera 160 Years Silver Edition CBK221B

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Guessing it might also be delayed now?
Not sure, but I expect so. Given that the watchmaking industry is effectively shut down for the moment, I'd say that unless these have already been made and are ready to ship that there will be some delay.
 
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I understand that this will now be a boutique-only edition

i bet they out it online soon enough. I can’t see many Boutiques remaining open for long, sadly.
 
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I understand that this will now be a boutique-only edition
Interesting! I wonder if my Authorized Dealer will cancel my pre-order. 🙁
 
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Interesting! I wonder if my Authorized Dealer will cancel my pre-order. 🙁
Mine did
 
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Mine did
🙁 Thanks, I will contact them to find out.
 
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Tourneau talked to TAG Heuer in the US and they haven't received any notice to make this exclusive to the boutiques. I will post an update, if this changes in the upcoming weeks.
 
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Wrist shot by equationdutemps on instagram. Anyone have an update on when the 160th Carrera will finally be released?

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Wrist shot by equationdutemps on instagram. Anyone have an update on when the 160th Carrera will finally be released?

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This seems to be a new shot. 🥰
Most of the images I've seen up to now seem to show the same prototype watch with the chronograph hands discrepancy.
My AD told me, they will get the watch around mid july.
 
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I don't have a dog in the fight; I'm not into LEs or reissues. I did read the NYT article though and found a couple of items interesting. First Hublot's production numbers. My response was "Well, don't charge so much for ugly watches and maybe you'll sell a few more".

The second thing was this quote from Julien Tornare, the Zenith CEO:

“Secondhand was ‘the gray market’ and it was dirty and no one wanted to hear about it,” he continued. “Now, we’re all thinking about how we do it and how we get our part of the pie, because it’s big business.”

Does that man understand what he's talking about? It's long been a business concept of capturing profit across all parts of the price/demand curve (Southwest selling discount seats to early buyers, Toyota offering the Scion line) but the concept has been heresy in the watch business. It's been speculated that Richmont destroyed something like $200 million worth of watches in 2018 just to keep them away from the GM.

Interesting read, glad I waded through this thread (and I have nothing to do at work right now).
 
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It's been speculated that Richmont destroyed something like $200 million worth of watches in 2018 just to keep them away from the GM.

Since Richemont now own Watchfinder, I would say they are using that channel to offload stock rather than GM dealers.
 
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Does that man understand what he's talking about? It's long been a business concept of capturing profit across all parts of the price/demand curve (Southwest selling discount seats to early buyers, Toyota offering the Scion line) but the concept has been heresy in the watch business. It's been speculated that Richmont destroyed something like $200 million worth of watches in 2018 just to keep them away from the GM.

I think they're also getting into the "certified pre-owned" business the way car companies do. A few watch companies are starting to do things like that.
 
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Since Richemont now own Watchfinder, I would say they are using that channel to offload stock rather than GM dealers.

it is quite obvious that some of the big ‘pre-owned’ dealers and watch/jewellery/trinket chainstore ADs are selling NOS as if it was truly ore-owned. I’ve noticed that ‘scam’ more than once. I’ve even bought one that was advertised pre-owned and came with full 5 year warranty! It was a great price though so can’t complain,
 
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That's possibly the cleanest chrono dial I've ever seen.
I'm into it. If @Hubert's speculation is right and we have a black dialed version in 2 years or so....woooooweeeeee,
 
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Ara Ara
I'm into it. If @Hubert's speculation is right and we have a black dialed version in 2 years or so....woooooweeeeee,

one of each then
 
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I'm into it. If @Hubert's speculation is right and we have a black dialed version in 2 years or so....woooooweeeeee,

We'll see what happens, but TAG's got a history of starting down a very promising road only to change their minds at the last second.... For me, I've always preferred the black dial over the silver but for some reason I'm more excited about the new one as silver than I would be were it black.
 
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We'll see what happens, but TAG's got a history of starting down a very promising road only to change their minds at the last second.... For me, I've always preferred the black dial over the silver but for some reason I'm more excited about the new one as silver than I would be were it black.
Balls to silver or black. What we really want to see is a combination of both (the panda) surely? 😀