^I've seen one of the Aviator models being sold on MAS inflight shopping. Search on the net shows that it's a Russian brand, owned by Volmax.
http://aviatorwatch.ru/

Apparently they outsourced the manufacturing to a UK company.
http://forums.watchuseek.com/f67/review-av...ost3579837.html

^Don't think you can get an MM homage from local dealers, unless it's the real thing. Closest is maybe Singapore where you can find Aristo/Dievas from Gnomon.

^That's hardly a dilemma. My dilemma is I lack funds to purchase my grail watch

Go for the IWC. Graham is not worth the money IMO.

^Thats what mobile phones are for

Interesting to see the bulk of Swiss watches going to the HK market. The Chinese must be spending millions on watches there.

I get the luxury tax part, having being based in China for a couple years now. But double that of the US? Also Japan, one of the top markets for luxury goods, is not even in there. I guess Seiko/Citizen/Casio must be doing a great job in their home market.

This post has been edited by deriku: Oct 26 2012, 09:16 PM

Technically HK is part of China...

Just making a guess here: CK gets better ad space probably because of the brand popularity. Ask people on the street and most would have heard of CK but not Mido, Hamilton etc. To the non-WIS fashion watches still represent a certain degree of prestige.

A brother of a friend is working for Swatch Group, I wonder how much staff discount they get

Haven't got anything new in some time and budget is tight with new commitments coming up, so I got this:



My second Nighthawk, this time in black with SS bracelet.

^I suppose the argument is similar to people who have never dived in their life wearing dive watches.

An iphone would be more pragmatic than a slide rule, so I've never bothered learning all the functions. Unless of course I get straneded on an island and need to do something Macgyver-esque.

There may be investment value in that piece. But 13k? Better be made of solid gold with diamond encrusted caseback.