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#3,796
SamanthalovesMK said:
Ladies-went to watch station on lunch bc the manager called me bc they had new styles and to look at straps....I got there they had one of the new bracelets Michele is introducing that fits all styles with the same shape and size. They will have a gap and it didn't look good at all (looked cheap), in addition the young lady was saying the plan is to stop making specific bracelets for styles, some may think this is good but I didn't like the gap I saw, it made it look cheap.
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Well, my guess is the current watch styles probably look *the worst* with those new bracelets because it is an afterthought.
I like the idea of *thinking* about continuity for some michele watches but this may have gone overboard. I don't think we need one bracelet for every michele watch- the deco, csx, serein etc- because some watches are round and some square, it just makes sense you would need a different bracelet for those (sounds like they tried to design around that by inserting a space between the watch head and the bracelet).
My complaint in the past was that each square 18mm watch - deco, deco moderne, milou etc - needed a different bracelet which seemed unnecessary. Just combining bracelets for the similar watches would have been a better idea jmho.

Well maybe I will hit watchstation this weekend and take a look.
 
#3,798
Michelle1x said:
speaking of expensive bracelets, the rose gold solid bracelets are the most expensive- the serein and caber rose gold bracelet are $600, and the CSX rose gold (solid) bracelet was even more if I recall- but there aren't any more around that I can see.
The 2 tone CSX bracelets were $400 originally but marked down to $240 on the michele site now.

For the life of me, I don't know why a gold plated bracelet needs to be so expensive for a michele watch. Its not like these things are solid gold.
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I looked at a watch at Watch Station and it had the solid rose color bracelet. It was way too much. The color of the watch and the bracelet was too-too. I like the idea of a two-tone.
The reason for the price of the yellow and the rose gold plating is they actually use gold to plate the watch. Gold ain't cheap and the plating is electric/chemical (if I recall one of my junior high school science fair projects.) The white/silver bracelets are stainless steel. They are not plated in white gold or palladium.

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#3,799
Balto Bag Lady said:
I looked at a watch at Watch Station and it had the solid rose color bracelet. It was way too much. The color of the watch and the bracelet was too-too. I like the idea of a two-tone.
The reason for the price of the yellow and the rose gold plating is they actually use gold to plate the watch. Gold ain't cheap and the plating is electric/chemical (if I recall one of my junior high school science fair projects.) The white/silver bracelets are stainless steel. They are not plated in white gold or palladium.

sigh, beeble.
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thanks for the explanation, ok glad there is some redeeming qualities to michele gold plated bracelets....
Gold plating seems to have a wide range of quality anyway- I swear I had "gold plated" rings etc in college that turned colors and did not feel or look like gold at all, whereas Michele bracelets do seem substantial and certainly don't turn colors on me.....

Was the rose gold watch you saw, a CSX rose gold? That one, in all rose gold with the salmon color face was a lot of rose gold.MWW03T000049_main.jpg
 
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Michelle1x said:
Well, my guess is the current watch styles probably look *the worst* with those new bracelets because it is an afterthought.
I like the idea of *thinking* about continuity for some michele watches but this may have gone overboard. I don't think we need one bracelet for every michele watch- the deco, csx, serein etc- because some watches are round and some square, it just makes sense you would need a different bracelet for those (sounds like they tried to design around that by inserting a space between the watch head and the bracelet).
My complaint in the past was that each square 18mm watch - deco, deco moderne, milou etc - needed a different bracelet which seemed unnecessary. Just combining bracelets for the similar watches would have been a better idea jmho.

Well maybe I will hit watchstation this weekend and take a look.
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Yeah maybe I am too hard on the new bracelets, but this is alot of money so I like it to look a certain way. When I googled the model # it says fits the deco, and csx I'm like WHAT, thats no good. like you said ok if its the round vs square
 
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Michelle1x said:
thanks for the explanation, ok glad there is some redeeming qualities to michele gold plated bracelets....
Gold plating seems to have a wide range of quality anyway- I swear I had "gold plated" rings etc in college that turned colors and did not feel or look like gold at all, whereas Michele bracelets do seem substantial and certainly don't turn colors on me.....

Was the rose gold watch you saw, a CSX rose gold? That one, in all rose gold with the salmon color face was a lot of rose gold.View attachment 3454887
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Yeah I absolutely love this face, however, I like it better with the two tone bracelet, but I never saw the full gold in person.
 
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SamanthalovesMK said:
Yeah maybe I am too hard on the new bracelets, but this is alot of money so I like it to look a certain way. When I googled the model # it says fits the deco, and csx I'm like WHAT, thats no good. like you said ok if its the round vs square
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I haven't seen these generic bracelets yet but I can already imagine what they are.
Michele typically has a bracelet that connects directly to the watch head - which looks more like a one piece design. And they are introducing bracelets that look more like this design, below. The first pic is the current bracelet design and the second is more like the new one, right?MWW03T000049_main.jpg 0d9dc0f93100acd3bd2b75650803ef3b.jpg
 
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Michelle1x said:
speaking of expensive bracelets, the rose gold solid bracelets are the most expensive- the serein and caber rose gold bracelet are $600, and the CSX rose gold (solid) bracelet was even more if I recall- but there aren't any more around that I can see.
The 2 tone CSX bracelets were $400 originally but marked down to $240 on the michele site now.

For the life of me, I don't know why a gold plated bracelet needs to be so expensive for a michele watch. Its not like these things are solid gold.
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But they are plated with 18kt gold and you're paying for the Michele name brand too
 
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Balto Bag Lady said:
I looked at a watch at Watch Station and it had the solid rose color bracelet. It was way too much. The color of the watch and the bracelet was too-too. I like the idea of a two-tone.
The reason for the price of the yellow and the rose gold plating is they actually use gold to plate the watch. Gold ain't cheap and the plating is electric/chemical (if I recall one of my junior high school science fair projects.) The white/silver bracelets are stainless steel. They are not plated in white gold or palladium.

sigh, beeble.
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I love a two tone watch

That's right. About the gold plating. I was told that it should never chip. Or fade. They are plated with 18kt yellow gold or Rose gold.
 
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