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Today's Luxury Watch Market Needs Fairly Priced Precious Metal Watches
When Grand Seiko introduced its Elegance Collection, best watches's David Bredan described the pricing structure as "insane."$7,400 gets you the SBGK005 in a stainless steel case, but the yellow gold SBGK006 will cost you $19,000, while the rose gold costs a mind-numbing $29,000. It's hard to disagree with David's assessment, and Ariel Adams and others on the team have railed against exactly this problem. Sure, gold costs more. An ounce of gold is trading for $1,300 and rose gold will cost slightly more, so there's going to be a premium over the negligible cost of stainless steel. But there's nowhere near $22k in gold in a watch case, so what exactly is driving the pricing structure of precious metal watches? Is it tooling? Rarity? Exclusivity? Veblen effect? A combination of all these factors? Or perhaps the price is simply what the market will bear - enough people are willing to pay these "insane"premiums, so that's where the watches are priced. It's an easy fallback answer and a com
Top 10 Affordable Watches That Get A Nod From Snobs
You don’t necessarily need to spend a lot of money on a timepiece that will earn you respect or even praise from a dedicated watch snob. While most “lower-end” watches will not satisfy the particular attention to detail or value that serious enthusiasts are keen to notice, there are a number of superlative “everyman” watches that will nevertheless garner a nod from the horological elite.Why is it, however, that watch snobs are hard to please? Are they merely measuring up other watch lovers by how much money they are spending? It often appears that way, but that isn’t the precise truth. More accurately, it would be safe to say that most of the timepieces available that have unique or very refined designs and excellent materials, as well as features, tend to be much more expensive. Timepieces are often an inherently expensive item (hence why they are in the luxury category), so it isn’t surprising that cost is often associated with how “nic