Ocean7 to bring Ploplof Homage to market in February...
Ocean7 to bring Ploplof Homageto market in February... Did you miss out on getting a PloPlof for your collection because of the Omegamania price bump? Dispair that you'll never be able to afford such a watch? Well there may be an alternative... I just had a long phone conversation with David Greenspan [who many old time TimeZone Omega Forum regulars will remember ] and he pointed out to me the Ocean7 watch company's website: In addition to a number of very interesting current offerings, it appears they will be producing a Homage to the Omega Ploplof in February: This is a good news/bad news situation... It's good news to those who'd genuinely be interested in owning a PloProf Homage watch, it's bad news to collectors as it's likely that the unscrupulous may well use this watch as the basis for a reasonably convincing fake. Details as well as an interesting line of other watches on the Ocean7 Watches website. -- Chuck |
posted by Chuck Maddox | 11/29/2007 01:10:00 PM
4 Comments:
Hello! Pleased to meet you! Your blog is very interesting. If you wish, come and visit me. Ciao.
http://ilparra.myblog.it
Hi Chuck
I have one of those on order. Feb 08 is a bit ambitious - it is likely to be introduced later.
The fundamental differences between the LM-7 and the original PLOPROF (short for PLOngeur PROFessional) will make it very hard to be mistaken that the LM-7 is anything but an LM-7.
Most of the buyers (referred to the watchmaker by another website and with an active forum for contributors to have input into its design) want something similar, but not identical - as a mark of respect for the original Omega and for those who bought them (myself included).
Just an update - good luck with the site!
IanM
Does Omega have any issues with this?
Anonymous said...
Does Omega have any issues with this?
[Shrugs shoulders]
I am not sure how I'd know if they did. I'm not sure what they could do if they did either. One can't really copyright a style. Otherwise there wouldn't be any Submariner or Navitimer look-alikes. ?Nor would the Camaro have been a successful product because it looks like a Mustang.
There is nothing stopping Omega from re-releasing a Proplof after all..
-- Chuck
Post a Comment
<< Home