About those High Dollar Watches

[Charley]

I got some sort of email ad from STP yesterday, so I thought I would take a look to see what they were giving away. I entered WATCH into the site search and got several. Nothing that I was intered in buying.

However, I thought this one was interesting:
Gevril Soho Deluxe

What I thought was so funny about this particular one was the note that it was a Limited Edition of only 500. So it sold so bad that they had to dump the Limited Edition on STP. Price marked down from MSRP of only $4,995 to a real value price of $2,000. Wonder how many they have to sell at that price. That must be some great Stainless Steel though.

 

[Dmax]

Would you buy a watch from this man?

 

[edmorel]

Gevril is a pretty derivate brand that uses basic ETA (Swatch) movements. They simply copy other brands designs (Blancpain and Franck Muller for example), change the model name, throw in a Swatch movements and probably have the watch assembled somewhere in Asia and then put a ridiculous retail price on them. At $2,000, it is still a very bad value.

 

[Violinist]

Gevril's terrible... don't do it. At $2000, Omega's far better.

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by Violinist

Gevril's terrible... don't do it. At $2000, Omega's far better.

What he said.

Jon.

 

[UMass]

I agree, with others opinions and pass on the Gevril watch.
You can get a much better watch for $2k.

 

[kitonbrioni]

Get an Omega or similar nice watch and stop fretting over trash watches.

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by Dmax

Would you buy a watch from this man?

Is that the founder of Gevril?

 

[Violinist]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Is that the founder of Gevril?

No, Jacob the Idiot if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Tomasso]

Originally Posted by Violinist

No, Jacob the Idiot if I'm not mistaken.

It's not Jacob the Jeweler.

http://www.jacobandco.com/finejewelry/about_jacob.htm

 

[edmorel]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Is that the founder of Gevril?

He is the owner of Gevril, though I am not sure that he is the founder