Marcus Hanke
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Well, I cannot help ...
... but agree with you. However, this is business, this is advertising. We accept this kind of celebrities advertising with cars, with lipsticks, hair styling foam, food, and so on. Why are we so critical when it comes to watches? We have to accept that it is a private, profit-oriented business' basic right to increase its sales. If that kind of celebrity-focussed stuff works to achieve that, then be it so. If we think that, because of it, the prices are soaring, it is our basic right as consumers not to buy. At the end of the day, the company will compare its sales figures and especially the net profit before and after the advertising, and decide whether it paid off or not.
Marcus
Celebrities Show Off Their Bulgari Octos!
Even celebrities can't resist the unbridled sophistication of the Bulgari Octo Watch. Two leading cinematic stars, Jeremy Renner and Aaron Eckhart were spotted with theirs in public, proving that whether you are rough and edgy or clean-cut and polished th...
Sadly this makes me want one less...
I know this works in the industry, but... so cheesy.
I'm with Mostel
I'm sorry to chime in negatively, but this stuff really gets my goat. I get exposed to a lot of 'ooh look at some actor' (or other random sleb) wearing Product X, and in 99% of the cases it is just more cynical PR idiocy. I've seen it from the inside - an...
Well, I cannot help ...
... but agree with you. However, this is business, this is advertising. We accept this kind of celebrities advertising with cars, with lipsticks, hair styling foam, food, and so on. Why are we so critical when it comes to watches? We have to accept that i...
Of course...
...you're right. I was just having a little moan about it...I wish this business were more 'pure', less, well, a business; but the rules governing luxury goods today are about volume and marketing, and the myth of the dedicated artisan who is in it for th...
We have to take into account that r&d is some kind of marketing, too ...
Be it in the watch industry, or the car industry, the scheme is always the same: the highly complicated or advanced conversation pieces are used to advertise a manufacturer's capability and prestige. People then buy the more inexpensive entrance pieces, w...
