After Europe, Then Japan and most Likey HK, Rolex will raise prices next month

We were told some of the European Watch shops had raised prices of Rolex 5% to 8% aleady.

Now Rolex Would increase the price on 1 Feb by 8% on Submariner, at same time Patek Philippinmight increase 4% to 5% in Japan.

HK, there is the chance to have price adjustment before the Chinese New year, my guess only.

HK Snob

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Rolex's Most Expensive Three watches

A Man just came to HK to Search for these most expensive Watches From Rolex.

No. 1 GMT Master Ice Ref 116769 TBR HKD$4,400,000

No. 2. Submariner Emerald 116649 HKD$2,850,000

No. 3 Daytona in Platinum Ref 116576 TBR $1,207,500

These are rare species and not easy to be found, I have seen Submariner Emerald and Platinum Daytona at HKIA but were sold out.

There is still 2-3 few pieces at one of the watch AD in HK, as these are expensive items that normally AD does not stock up and there is no parallel import about these extraordinary items.

The about price are all listed price and this man is looking for the best discount he could before next price up-adjustment.

That is why I call him Tai Chi Cheung Sam Rolex (太極張三撈)!

HK Snob

Rolex Sales After Swiss Franc Appreciation in Singapore and Hong Kong!

Raffles Hotel branch of The Hour Glass

The Hour Glass Watch at Raffle Hotel, some 30 Rolexes were sold on Sunday alone.  This far outpaced the sales of other Swiss brands such as Hublot and Patek Philippe, which sold only two to four pieces that same day, said the sales staff. Mainly because of Swiss Franc had appreciate 20 percent on 15 Jan.

On any other day, Rolex sales typically taper off at around 10. Rolex declined to comment on when its new stock would come in, or when it planned to raise prices.

How About HK? What I could see is that one branch of Oriental Watch Company had a lot more customers since last Saturday, Chinese, local HKers, and foreigners, but the sales is not go as crazy as Singapore.  It is fact that the business was turning better since last Friday.

Will Rolex increase their price After CNY? well, let’s observe.

How About Europe? Many AD has increase 5 to 8% Already, will HK be exempted?

Original Article at Straits Times

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/rolexes-snapped-singapore-prices-climb-20150120

HK Snob

Factors for Success

Focus
Have guts to Change
Be Humble
Plan for the Worst

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Victorinox Super Tough 8 Ton Pressure

This watch arrives Manila, I saw it in Festival Mall at Alabang.

Selling price Peso 36,000 discounted to 22,000 (US$520)

This watch is claimed to be not damaged in Sulphuric and Chloric acid, and it can stand up 8 tons pressure. it  was found no damages after roll over by a 20 Tons Tank!

Super tough watch, uh!

I believe we get it cheaper in Hong Kong.

HK Snob 

Purple Stella of Venice

Created on Samsung Note III 16 Jan 2015

This is a little river at Venice.

You should find two young lades, one man, and a diver wearing a Panerai under the waters....

Don't bother if you cannot get it.

HK Snob

Japan and Korea is still a bit better than HK for Rolex Purchase

Rolex AD in Tokyo

This is still good pricing if you shop Rolex in Tokyo, Osaka and Nakaoka, Sandai...

This is one colleague went to Japan to buy Rolex

Take for an Example

Ref 116610LN is selling Yen 829,800 base on 14 Jan Exchange Rate Yen100 is HKD$6.65

That is HKD$54,422 after 5% discount and 8% VAT waived.

In HK if you are buying in AD, Ref 116610LN is $63,900 after 5% doscount will be $60,705.

GMT Master Bought in Seoul Airport on 15 Jan 2015

This is another Colleague went to buy in Seoul Airport for GMT Master II Ref 116710BLNR

Price after discount using VISA is HK dollars 59,000

But the Rolex has to ask him to put his name on it,
I would advise him to put name "Nonsuch" on it...

HK Snob

It Might be time to buy Rolex if you really need to have a Rolex as Swiss Franc soars high

The Swiss Central bank has abandoned its exchange rate control and cut interest rate to -0.75pc, sending the franc soaring against the single currency.

On 15th Jan., Swiss Franc soared high 20pc, it might be the time that you should speed up your Rolex or Other Swiss Watches before next price adjustment, in my opinion.


HK Snob

Rolex Submariner, Deepsea on Sale

Ref 116610LV Submariner green Dial Green Bezel

  Ref 116610LN Submariner Black

Ref 116660 DeepSea Black

Brand new import watches Full Set with Full international Rolex Warrarnty.

Rolex Submariner Hulk Ref 116610LV HKD$66,000
Dated Dec 2014

Rolex Sumariner Black Ref 116610LN HKD55,500
Dated Dec 2014

Rolex DeepSea Black Ref 116660  HKD$72,000
Dated Jan 2015

Ex-stock cash Deal

HK Snob



The World's First Chronograph entirely made of Titanium by IWC for Porsche Design

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche was one of the most recognizable and Iconic designers in 20^th Century, see the success of Porsche 911.

F.A. Porsche or Butzi  was graduated from the Hoschule fur Gestaltung (HfG) design school in Ulm, a school founded by Max Bill a former student of Bauhaus in Dessau.

The Bauhaus logic is aesthetics of everyday’s objectives: pure functional,  the Bauhaus curriculum returns to basic materials, espousing geometry symmetry and contrast, no diamond was being used, subtlety, and pioneer of a minimalist.

Butzi in 1972 departed from the company after a family dispute with Dr. Ferdinand Piech and founded the Porsche Design Studio in Stuttgart. His first product was a wristwatch. Its appearance, focused on the essential concern of users, displaying time with the highest function of legibility. In addition to a matt black dial on which the white hands showed a great contrast. Porsche Design has been working with Orfina, then IWC started 1977 till 1997.

World's First Fountain Pen made of Titanium by Parker, called T1 in 1970

Courtesy Picture of Parkercollecor.com/

Don’t know if Butzi was influence by Parker who commemorated the Apollo 11 launched on Moon in 1969, they invented world first Fountain pen T1 entire made of titanium which the body and the nib is one piece. Due to the high cost and suffered low yield during manufacturing, it was made with very small number, now is one of the pen collector’s item.

Now this unusual watch is the World First Chronograph using titanium which is hard to extract, high cost and extremely difficult to manufacture.  To make the watch case, bezel, bracelet, thus this watch is light, since then it is the F.A Porsche favourite material for watches and it would be missed the Porsche-Design as it is entire made with sandblasted finish.

This is Porsche Design Titan Chronograph reference 3702 comes with titanium case, it was also bringing chronograph pushers inserted in the case-band and a fully integrated titanium bracelet. On the wrist, this watch was balanced and light, it is an sleek watch comes from Watch case and bracelet as ONE. No one does better as display is clear and legible, with a perfect contrast. It housed a self-winding movement under the reference 3732 (the JLC 361, supplied by Jaeger-LeCoultre and that could be found into the IWC Ingenieur).

Feature

World’s First volume production watch made of titanium
Perfect balance dial
highest legibility
Super Function with also a Date and Day display
Eye Catching Red Second hand
Super rare with full length of Bracelet and an adjuster Pin (Harder to find)
IWC movement
Comfortable to wear
42mm, super durable
It is a Porsche Design, timeless!

P.O.A.

PS Watch Sold 17 Jan at watch club hi tea.

HK Snob

Rolex Submariner Ref 16613 on Sale

Why we have always put ad on Selling Submariner Ref 16613, simply because of the huge demand of this watch.

 It is perhaps most important reason is that I happen to love the look of this watch.

I like gold watch, but it does not mean everyone likes the look of gold. Gold watches with gold bracelets can be a bit too much. But this Submariner brings the rich look of gold and still remains tasteful with some difference of all stainless steel 16610LN.

The blue dial combined with the silver-look of steel, and the polished 18k gold bezel and bracelet is absolutely gorgeous. It is perhaps the most beautiful watch I’ve ever seen under price tag HK$100,000.

Another great reason to own is the caliber 3135. The 31 jewel caliber 3135 has been in service since 1989. In those 25 years of services, the 3135 has garnered a reputation as being one of the most reliable robust movements ever created.

So my friend, this is probably the 4th Ref 16613 since I put ad last year, full set except box at a price of HKD$43,800, it comes with original two tone bracelet and a brand new croco strap for you. Just arrive our hands from Rolex after their polishment... it is like new.

This is a price that you probably cannot find in the market under this  criteria.

1.       Two Tone

2.       40mm dive-watch

3.       All-Occasion wearing

4.       Reliable Movement in place

5.       Big name.

What else!?

HK Snob

HKWF

Watch was sold on 11 Jan 2015

Rolex Yacht Master II, an Underestimated Watch for your next Purchase!

Rolex Yacht master II Pink gold Two Tone Watch, Your next Purchase Consideration!

I started to love this watch since Beginning of last year as I saw many of my friends wearing it.

Most of them told me that it is worth to purchase as it is 44mm, and it is not as common as standard watch Submariner for most of the MongKokers!

It is beautiful as it is pink gold two tone, looks very eye catching with the Yacht master II engraved on the Ceramic Blue Bezel. And the layout design is not as crowded as we can expect with so many function on it. One Disappointment is there is no “Date” as Daytonas don't..

The Rolex Yacht-Master II was unveiled in 2007 and first introduced in March 2010 with the models 116688 Yellow Gold and 116689 White Gold. One year later, in 2011, Rolex introduced model 116681 which was made from steel and everose gold.

At Baselworld 2013, the watch was available for the first time in 904L steel, model 116680, fitted with a Cerachrom bezel insert in blue ceramic.

Early Yacht-Master II used Rolex's 4160 movement but with the introduction of model 116680 in 2013, the movement was updated to the 4161 movement specifically designed for the Yacht-Master II.

4160 movement is known to have mechanical issue when you try to reset it while the counter is running, later on this bug was fixed on 4161.

4161 Movement

I believe that the final dial layout was a result of many round of vote on different approaches.

It is a chronograph movement with the complication of a programmable timer that counts down ten minutes. The countdown mechanism was primarily designed for regattas where the Starting sequence can last up to 10 minutes. The movement took nearly 4 years to create and is made up from 360 parts. The movement also has a 72-hour power reserve.

If the wearer has started the countdown either too early or too late then the countdown can be synchronized. By pressing the start/stop button, located at the 2 o'clock position, and then pressing the reset button, located at the 4 o'clock position, the minute countdown hand re-positions itself to the nearest minute while the seconds countdown hand returns to 0.

The mechanism makes it possible for the wearer to program in advance of and official countdown time and then start the timer once the countdown has begun and the mechanism can be programmed to count down 0 to 10 minutes. The countdown feature can be locked and unlocked by twisting the bezel through 90 degrees. The Yacht-Master II was one of the first watches in the world to have a bezel that worked in conjunction with the movement.

List price

Ref 116680 stainless steel $145,300

Ref 116681 Rose Gold and Stainless steel $195,000

Ref 116688 Solid 18KT yellow gold $301,900

Ref 116689 Solid 18KT White Gold $339,500

There is not much discount when you go Rolex AD, may be 5% standard, and More you know them well with 1X% using card.

If Parallel Import, we can get less 20 to 24% off in cash.

What Do you prefer!?

HK Snob

New year Watch Sales: Cartier Crash, Explorer II, Date Just...etc

Cash deal or Bank Trasfer, all genuine watches.

HK Snob

HK Watch Fever



PS Date Just, Explorer sold on 3 Jan,

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Thanks for your support and if possible send me mail or whatsapp such ttah I can know more about you.

I have been trying sending message but somehow they were not seem to reach you.

Wish you all had a wonderful year 2015

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Let's try to have guts to make Mistakes in 2015!

Written with a 1972 Montblanc Meistertuck 82 Fountain pen.

Many people especially friends criticizing me writing crap nothing related to Watches. Well, I have to say allow me to do it one more time in the new year 2015, OK?

Japanese Fishing Industry

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish.

But the water close to Japan has not held many fish for decades.

So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever.

The further the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring the fish. If the return trip took more time, the fish were not fresh.

To solve this problem, fish companies installed freezers on their boats.

They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea.

Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer.

However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen fish and they did not like the taste of frozen fish.

The frozen fish brought a lower price.

So, fishing companies installed fish tanks.

They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin.

After a little thrashing around, they were tired, dull, and lost their fresh-fish taste.

The fishing industry faced an impending crisis!

But today, they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan.

How did they manage...?

To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks but with a small shark.

The fish are challenged and hence are constantly on the move.

The challenge they face keeps them alive and fresh!

Have you realized that some of us are also living in a pond but most of the time tired and dull....? Basically in our lives, sharks are new challenges to keep us active.

If you are steadily conquering challenges, you are happy.

Your challenges keep you energized. Don’t create Success and revel in it in a state of inertia.

You have the resources, skills and abilities to make a difference.

That is also called Stout Effect of management for a tank of Sardines who used to live in Comfort zone.

And out in a stout could make a difference.

It is not a bad approach as I see many US companies that they seem feel bore with the GOOD performance of their staff who has been working hard smartly for them, making new sales records, but that is not enough for now-a-days-greedy-CEOs… yes, their income could be HKD$10,000 a hour, which is hundred times than ours?  

They invite external experienced people from other company, consultants, senior manager to sit on top of your head as your superiors, that is quite discouraging as it is hard or even hopeless for those who-has-a-dream-to-be-promoted- in-2015… now it would not be happened before that chap’s retirement!

But Always I said there is no smart people, there is hard working people, smartness may varies 2X or 3X in magnitude person to person, but hard working make be 10X , or 5X, which I believe working hard can make a difference! Smartness could be coming from your parent’s Genes, but hardworking is on your hands.

Well. Who has learnt from this Japanese Fisher Consultants.

Anyway, I truly believe one manager sent me his message: I quote here…

“Always been thankful for everything in my life whether positive or negative, joy or sorrow, comfort or pain, failure or success, loss or win as I believe these were all given for us to experience the deeper reasons behind and appreciate the learning and always hope for the BEST and COME out to be a better person… just like a GOLD which needs to undergo different processes… to be mined, filtered, melted and fired for it to become a shiny and valuable matter….

Cheers! and here’s someone hoping for a GREAT, BLESSED and HEALTHY NEW YEAR 2015 ahead for all of us!  A better year for company office and hope we can throw all the negatives and learn from mistakes and stand to correct these and prove that we can run this company FAIRLY and SUCCESSFULLY. “

That he mentioned making mistake… well, I learnt from this Great people Neil we have to make mistakes in 2015 and every year forever.

Well , talking about Gold, at least I responded to those who complains me not talking about Watches.

I like gold since the very early days with Watch as gold is … just like a GOLD which needs to undergo different processes to get the natural luster. As always Chinese use gold to describe something good, valuable, important, best, Golden rules, Gold Medal, Golden Samples, Silence is Gold!

Whenever I buy watch, I stick to a rule, Always go for GOLD first, only if the budget is not enough, I even don't want to buy, as Gold is a standard precious for making watches, and it will give you a better return in long run.

Last, I believe Edison made a lot of mistake in his life of experiment, and Who knows the outcomes if you don't do it? Let’s try to make something new in 2015 as it may even be a mistake!

Wish you all good health, good faith in Gold, having guts to make Mistakes!

Try Put a shark in your tank this year and see how far you can really go....

Have a blessed new year,

May 2015 be a better year for all of us...

HK Watch Fever
HK Snob