Brown, Orlebar Brown (Page 4 of 21)

Anyone got a link?  I cant see them on the site

$395?

I can't believe the price. Whimsy is fine for $40-60, but not for ten times that amount.

I like whimsy. I had a Die Hard "Now I have a machine gun. Ho, Ho, Ho." Christmas sweater. These swim shorts are just a complete miss for me.

Thanks for the original heads up on these David.  I look forward to the future offerings as these don’t speak to me.  I also like a little longer swim trunk, that’s why I have the OB Dane in Sky Blue.

I do like the 007 branded drawstring bags they come in!

For real. If they sold those for $25 I'd probably buy a few for my Setters.

Also, Peppermill, unrelated, but do we know whether or not Omega regrets limiting the Spectre watch to 7007 copies? I was thinking about this last night and, without seeing their books, I have to imagine they do. They're going for 9k-12k on the secondary market. These aren't old watches and those prices are much higher than retail. Which means they didn't produce enough for everyone at the initial run. That's a lot of dollars Swatch didn't secure and ceded to third parties. Like, I'm sure they have talented accountants and it makes some sort of sense to them. But. It's weird to me outside looking in. The Bond watches must be a major percentage of their income. I'd be shocked if they accounted for less than 5%.

No, I mean the Spectre LE. Those retailed for, what, $7,500? Now they're between 9-12 depending on the condition. I thought those were limited to 7007 pieces too. It just doesn't make sense to me. I'd give Omega the $7,500 today if they still had some. Unless they've looked at previous sales and decided they could meet a certain goal faster by limiting the production.

I imagine they care about profits too. And the Brosnan Bond watch certainly was a quarterly workhorse for them. As were all the non-limited edition film watches up to Spectre. The idea of making the screen-used watch limited is what doesn't make obvious financial sense to me.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm not doubting that it makes financial sense to them. It has to; it's a large company that employs top financial talent. I'm just wondering how. I've only taken a handful of econ courses so my toolset isn't huge here. So I'm just wondering if/how/under what circumstances the scarcity helps Omega over the three year period between Bond films vs the quick quarter windfall of a limited run. If we look at the Supreme model, where everything is very limited, it makes every item sell quickly. That's not exactly the case with Omega watches. The more I think about the benefit of a limited run the best rationale is it's that there's none taking up shelf space after X period of time as people are motivated to buy quickly. So they can bank on those dollars and have something to show shareholders. But. Big shrug.

Last edited by frommeyer (19th Jun 2018 20:51)

The Dr No shorts are subtle enough if there were no text.

Thunderball is at least water related if too busy. The text is again an issue for me. YOLT is just tacky while the blocky layout of LALD is amateurish.

These shorts feature the original poster designs with little alteration. It's about adapting the posters to fit on shorts rather than using design elements from the posters to put on shorts. Some elements were moved from the original posters so they thy would not be split across two legs, but they either wanted to or had to maintain the entire poster designs. I think the shorts would look better if they used the illustrated/photographic parts of the poster and not the entire posters. But then the LALD shorts wouldn't be so good with just the film still rather than any design elements.

These shorts to me are like posters: something to hang on my wall. I wouldn't go swimming in a poster, so I wouldn't swim in these.

I travel a lot and checked the AT LE in several countries...
Too bad I just bought a second hand CR PO....

I have a somewhat related question.  Has anybody purchased the OB trunks in powder blue, and if so how does the color compare to the OB sky version?

Not to derail the thread but I thought I would post my Orlebar Brown polo in action today.