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Why there will be lines for
the $10,000 gold Apple Watch
March 28, 2015, 9:02 AM EDT
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Remember the customers
carrying bundles of cash who queued up last September
to buy as many iPhones as Apple would sell them?
It could happen again.
“We saw this with the
iPhone,” said Asymco’s
Horace Dediu in a podcast
recorded Thursday. “We’ll see it in spades with the gold Apple Watch.”
Most analysts expect
demand will be strongest for Apple’s aluminum and steel watches, which start at
$349 and $549, respectively.
Dediu believes Wall
Street may be underestimating the intangible appeal of a $10,000 gold watch.
Especially one given as a gift. Especially in China, with its rich tradition of
over-the-top gift giving.
The gold watch has
something else going for it. Unlike the value of a Rolex, say, which can range
from a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands, the price of the Apple Watch
in each of its global markets is fixed; it’s listed on the website.
“It’s like currency,”
says Dediu. Factor in local taxes, and you can calculate with some precision
what he calls the “global arbitrage opportunities.”
For example, the entry
level gold watch — 38mm 18-Karat Rose Gold with a white sport band — retails in
the U.S. for $10.000. The same watch is listed on Apple’s Chinese website for
RMB 74,800 ($12,045). Beijing imposes a 17% value added tax. Hong Kong does
not.
“If someone smuggles one
of these into China,” says Dediu, “they’ll pay for their flight ticket and then
some.”
He reports that in
Boston there were still queues for the iPhone 6 Plus in January, almost five
months after it launched. “They’re mostly Chinese,” he says. “They’re doing it
as a business.”
It can be a rough
business, as a documentary
film shot outside Apple Stores in New York City last
September demonstrated. It might be even rougher in April, when buyers could be
carrying bundles of cash in units of $10,000.
That’s cash that will go
almost directly to Apple’s bottom line. Dediu estimates that the margin on a
$10,000 gold watch could be as high as 90%.
“I wouldn’t be surprised
if in the first few months the demand for gold is far, far higher than we
imagined,” he says. “They’ll just be out of stock, permanently.”
Follow
Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Twitter at @philiped.
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