An interesting thrust and parry on Hublot policies

[sssurfer]

http://watchmakingblog.com/2008/03/26/hublot-parts/

Reading about their snobbish attitude and the spokes they put in their customers' wheels, I am doubly glad there are pretty decent reps around...

[Shundi]

Assholes.

[Corgi]

I guess their mentality is "if their rich enough to throw away their money on one of our ugly over-hyped watches they can afford shipping charges and probably have another watch to wear while they wait for repairs to finish, anyway"

[drhydro]

An interesting quote from the thread mentioned at the bottom of that post-

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[*] rob Posted April 26, 2008 at 11:39 pm with all the fakes coming out who wouldn

[Shundi]

My post (waiting for approval)

"Lets get something clear: This watch was a basic ETA Quartz movement, please don

[Shundi]

@ Corgi and Drhydro: I couldn't agree more

[kioske]

real jerks i tell yah....real jerks.

they sell a watch for thousands and try to milk more......

[eunomians]

[Tony7777]

Interesting thread. But the question remains, if Hublot watches are relatively easy to rep, then why are the prices so high for a good one??? Pricing appears to be in the $700-$800 range. Is it the casing?

[siesta181]

Hublot blows.....Brand with little tradition, no in-house movement, flashy ass pants for a fanbase. They'll wither soon enough... but then again stranger things have happened.

Cheers

Siesta181

[RLudlowe]

The

[kronos twin]

I often wonder what will happen to the industry when it reaches a breaking point in respect to problems such as these. Even if you can afford to get a watch serviced like this, who wants that kind of service? Hublot, I like your Big Bang, but what are you gonna do when the Big Bust hits you and the tried and true brands whose support of watchmakers and independently owned watch repairmen take your business. You'll be an overblown Ritmo Mundo selling your wares to fools and that will be the only thing your brand will stand for.

[pollux1]

I do hope the man in China who reverse engineered the HBB was qualified to do so

[Watchmeister]

It is actually quite brilliant and mean spirited on their part - it ensures revenue to either their AD's (whose sales have fallen precipitously in the current economic environment) or their own service center. The one which makes me scratch my head is the requirement of the Panerai shop to show up with proper papers in order to service it. I suppose it implies they don't trust their own staff to identify fakes.

[donpedro]

Has Hublot sales declined, does anyone know?

At least for me, the hype initially surrounding the brand has pretty much died off, although I still think the Big Bangs look cool.

Cheers!