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Clarification on "Sold Out"

In Response To: $2195 Retail in the US. Good Luck Finding One ()

: Omega has sold out of them. "Only"
: 10,007 pieces. At this point the demand for

Keep in mind that this only means the official Omega distributors (like Omega USA) have sold all their pieces into the dealer channels. This does NOT mean that they are in customer's hands.

I bet many dealers bought large numbers of these speculatively hoping they would sell fast. We'll see. I highly doubt that these $2000+ novelty watches will sell that well or that fast.

Likely a large portion of these were nabbed by dealers in Japan, where such a novelty watch would sell better than most any other country.