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Well, it's easy to tell it's quality. look at the Machining on the band. money. but the weight and the movement? JFC!!!!!!!!!Solid advice Vader, you have some material you recommend to study up on?
Well, it would only make sense that a gray market would only agree to quote replacement value at retail.
It would be a significant risk to quote on a commodity which fluctuates in value.
over quote? under quote? potentially have issues with dissatisfied customers or insurance companies. . .
it's much like the Car market. Insurance companies do not measure value in what something means to someone. only what it would cost to replace with a similar (not identical) item.
And they will be buying retail if your item is stolen,or lost.
You are right, and i agree. but it is not us deciding the values.
It isn't us deciding the values. It is up to us to get an appraisal from someone that knows the market, and which shows the insurance company what the item is worth. Then we pay the premium, for that higher market value and said item is insured at the current market value.
Sorry about what happened to your car. That sucks, but it isn't really the same thing. Custom work that you do on an older daily driver car under a normal insurance policy isn't going to result in you recouping anywhere near the time or money you put into it. If a car isn't appraised for what its value is above an average one of the same make, model and year, and it isn't under collector insurance policy...it is just going to result in them looking up the value of an average one from the same year and writing a check based on that.
Isn't a ripoff of their own design from some 30-odd years ago?I actually really like the chopard, I just can't accept the blatant RIP-off of someone's else's design.
A new iteration of a previous rip off perhaps?
Tried this one on in a Chopard boutique in Las Vegas over the weekend. Sorely tempted, sorely tempted...
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Tried this one on in a Chopard boutique in Las Vegas over the weekend. Sorely tempted, sorely tempted...
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I like its bracelet and the textured dial but I find the hands and hour markers a bit "Heavy handed." The bezel has clearly evolved from this...
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To This...where the curves have been cut off...
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To a totally round bezel...
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Yes, the original always had some some Royal Oak influence, but I was ok with that. It's not the first watch to have a lot of RO influence. I don't understand adding the quasi Nautilus ears to the case. I think I would have liked the Alpine Eagle more if they kept the previous bezel, didn't add the "Ears," but gave us the new textured dial.