did they discontinue the old c65 bronze?!

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did they discontinue the old c65 bronze?!

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did they discontinue the old c65 bronze?! with date and blue dial....or the green :-|

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Re: did they discontinue the old c65 bronze?!

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If you mean the C65 Dune Bronze COSC; link to the CWArchive,

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. . . then, yes, it has been discontinued / retired and replaced by the C65 Dune Aelion

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Noooooooo!!!
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nooooo....nooo. why. ahhhh. noooo. the new ones don't even come with bronze bracelets anymore. why have they done this?!
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cwfanfromvancouverbc wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:52 pm nooooo....nooo. why. ahhhh. noooo. the new ones don't even come with bronze bracelets anymore. why have they done this?!
Probably simply 'cos they're out of stock with no definite pre-order date.

Bronze bracelets will be back in good time, I'm sure.

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Bahnstormer_vRS wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 12:08 am
cwfanfromvancouverbc wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:52 pm nooooo....nooo. why. ahhhh. noooo. the new ones don't even come with bronze bracelets anymore. why have they done this?!
Probably simply 'cos they're out of stock with no definite pre-order date.

Bronze bracelets will be back in good time, I'm sure.

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I emailed CW to ask this question and...... bronze bracelets have been discontinued due to high cost, relatively low order rate and that any that are returned cant be resold as new due the pantina that develops, which I thinknis the main reason. :(
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Re: did they discontinue the old c65 bronze?!

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@tiktoktiktok - Welcome to the forum and thanks for the information.

For clarity and confirmation, I too made enquiries a week or so ago with CW and was advised, as you have been, by an authoritative source that lamentably the C65 bronze bracelets have been discontinued along with the bronze C65 Sandhurst Series II.

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tiktoktiktok wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 1:34 am I emailed CW to ask this question and...... bronze bracelets have been discontinued due to high cost, relatively low order rate and that any that are returned cant be resold as new due the pantina that develops, which I thinknis the main reason. :(
I wouldn't say that. CW runs very lean and I would wager the first two reasons are the predominant ones.
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I also enquired about the bronze bracelets recently, and whilst I also got the response that they are discontinued, they did say that there had been a high number of recent enquiries which had been noted and fed back. We can always keep our fingers crossed!
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rkovars wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:00 pm
tiktoktiktok wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 1:34 am I emailed CW to ask this question and...... bronze bracelets have been discontinued due to high cost, relatively low order rate and that any that are returned cant be resold as new due the pantina that develops, which I thinknis the main reason. :(
I wouldn't say that. CW runs very lean and I would wager the first two reasons are the predominant ones.
I probably should have been clearer. It was a stated reason in the email response I got. So of the 3 reasons they gave me I thought that was the most significant reason as they other 2 doesn't really cost them anything where as a returned bracelet they can no longer sell does. Obviously there is a demand for bronze bracelets but if the overall profit from them isnt realised due to people returning them and no longer resalable then thats a bigger issue.
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On the subject of Bronze watches, and bracelets, there's some useful discussion and photos in a topic/thread from last October;-

How do you like your Bronze case watches? Raw or Patinated?


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tiktoktiktok wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 1:13 am I probably should have been clearer. It was a stated reason in the email response I got. So of the 3 reasons they gave me I thought that was the most significant reason as they other 2 doesn't really cost them anything where as a returned bracelet they can no longer sell does. Obviously there is a demand for bronze bracelets but if the overall profit from them isnt realised due to people returning them and no longer resalable then thats a bigger issue.
Low order rate tells me that the demand wasn't there. Product sitting on the shelf does cost them money.
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