Comments on: SIHH 2009 News: Ralph Lauren

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:18:37 +0000

In Russia, maybe China there will be a market. They are fond of branded bling-bling. I think the watches are not ugly, however would never buy.

By: Zeger

Zeger — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:37:33 +0000

I am wondering does anybody know the price tags of these RL? And don’t you think that they can be bought in Turkey or the east very soon?

To me its just that the RL “phase”is already way over. People at work would make jokes if one turns up in a RL horsey shirt on Friday.

Therefore its not a ‘serious’ high end brand any more for professionals, or was it ever. And if so would people pay thousands of euro’s for them?
I rather buy them without the RL name on the dial. They do look nice and it seems they have very nice movements in them.

Also the fact that RL did get access to these movements is something that stuns me. Well done for RL, but i am not so sure the marketing departments of companies that use these movements are to happy about the deal.

By: Kyle S.

Kyle S. — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:00:52 +0000

Hermes also came to mind for me, but the Ralph Lauren did not quite reach that level of stature (though this was probably not RL’s goal, either). From a visual perspective, I do not like the Roman numerals on the dial – too “clock-like” for my preference. Also, the dimensions do seem a bit odd at 42mm diameter x 5.33mm thick.

I guess at the end of the day I am just not a “fashion brand” kind of guy for my watches.