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Sunday, August 13, 2017

I Cannot Resist - Off Topic

I don't know anything about high end watches, and I assume that they're all priced in absurd ways. Still, I cannot resist a remark.

Ming is selling a watch.

As noted, I have no idea if the $900 price tag is reasonable or absurd, but I do know that the movement in it is a clone of a swatch movement.

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15 comments:

  1. Gustaf EriksonAugust 13, 2017 at 9:17 AM

    I really need to remove Ming's blog from my feed... he was never that interesting and now it just takes up mental space.

    Nitpick, as I know way too much about watches than I'd care to admit - the Selitta is a clone of an ETA movement, a company owned by the Swatch Group. This group owns the Swatch brand, but they also own a bunch of high-end brands, Omega among them. It's you basic Swiss zaibatsu.

    A couple of years ago ETA said they were going to restrict sales to entities outside the Swatch group, so companies like Selitta started making clones (the designs are long ago out of patent).

    $900 is a reasonable price for a micro-brand watch. I doubt Ming will get rich off the venture.

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  2. stone sealAugust 13, 2017 at 10:03 AM

    I like the sunflower-swirl look of the faces....but the sale of watches (I mean, whuuuh?) mars the starving artist/purity aesthetic that I have been attempting to apply to Ming. Not literally starving, but... not a shopkeeper? oh well. It feels a teensy bit like Paris Hilton's line of perfume... lingerie... shoes! whooooa, flatware! YOICKS, Irish whisky! gaaah! carpets! furniture! no, Ming, no. You breaking my heart.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 13, 2017 at 11:01 AM

    First, it was Steve Huff and his "Wonder Box" for communicating with spirits.

    Now, it's Ming and his watch....

    I can't speak for anybody else, of course, but I'm on pins and needles waiting to see what product(s) Molitor creates for the audience of his blog!

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    1. stone sealAugust 13, 2017 at 5:28 PM

      well.
      yes.
      now I, also, am waiting for The Product.

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    2. Mike C.August 14, 2017 at 12:26 AM

      I offer you the "Air Quote Headband" or Ironizer (TM), which, when worn, places quotation marks either side of the wearer's head, thus indicating a life lived in a permanent state of ironic bemusement.

      Also available as a discreet piercing.

      Mike

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    3. erickeAugust 14, 2017 at 2:00 AM

      Probably itching powder packaged in a faux handmade book.

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    4. stone sealAugust 17, 2017 at 3:30 PM

      artisanal dog-beds.

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  4. amolitorAugust 14, 2017 at 6:18 AM

    Well, obviously, I am designing, to be introduced shortly, an extremely itchy watch, to be worn on the head, with scare quotes on the band which allow the wearer to communicate with the dead.

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  5. Stephen S. MackAugust 14, 2017 at 2:35 PM

    Do away with the itchy part of said watch, and I'll take two. Maybe three.

    With best regards.

    Stephen

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  6. David MantrippAugust 15, 2017 at 10:17 AM

    I'm in awe. Full time pro photographer, runs a 24/7 blog, runs product strategy for Hasselblad full time, and in his spare time, chief designer, production manager and supremo of a high end watch manufacturer bearing his name. I can barely get out of bed in the morning...

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  7. AndreaAugust 16, 2017 at 2:29 AM

    @David and don't forget 1500 USD-a-pop 2-days workshops to learn to "shoot like Ming"...

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  8. AnonymousAugust 16, 2017 at 1:29 PM

    Also don’t forget the bags...

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  9. AnonymousAugust 18, 2017 at 5:42 AM

    I'd say good on him. Ming's super-particular about things and is really into watches. I know nothing about the watch market, but he's obviously filling a niche that was left open by the big players.

    I'm sure Andrew feels the same way about his blog ;-)

    Sven W

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  10. stone sealAugust 28, 2017 at 5:18 PM

    MB & F.
    omg.
    I can't even find prices....

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  11. Joe VAugust 29, 2017 at 3:51 PM

    I can see the appeal of higher-end watches, but I've found my sweet spot in $35-$40 solar-powered analog plastic Casio watches. They're analog, quartz-accurate and you never need worry about a battery. When they die, you recycle them and buy another. I know - sacrilege to many; but I'd rather spend my money elsewhere. But I don't begrudge Ming. If people invest in his marketing approach, good for him.

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