Leica Hermes special edition $14K WOW

this reminds me of how many times a certain Miles Davis album has been reproduced, repacked and resold in a zillion different versions. Either way I don't have to own every version, I just know I love that classic album. Some people will pay $200 for thew version in a boxset with colour photographs etc. Marketing will always siphon more money into the corporates bottom line. Begs the question, do you buy that album because of the feelings it brings when you listen to it or because you want to impress people. I'll say no more.
 
Always amusing how some people can justify just about anything. I personally equate it with Leica prostituting the brand for a fast buck, but maybe they really need the money.

Roger Hicks said:
It's certainly... vivid (I got the press release overnight). I can't imagine actually using it, but de gustibus non disputandum est and if you look at Martin Parr's The Rich, it's not hard to imagine this thing at some of the garden parties and horse races he portrays.

The thing is, if Leica can sell 200 of them, what's the problem? High profits keep Leica in business making cameras for the rest of us. I genuinely don't understand responses like Vicky's. What's obscene about it? I mean, I loathe football, but I don't propose demolishing all football stadia. Let them get on with it.

As for the recession, the reply of anyone who can afford something like this is likely to be, 'Recession? What recession?' The very rich (and even the quite rich) tend to suffer surprisingly little during a recession. Their nominal wealth drops from (let us say) $20 million to (let us say) $10 million (and that's only 'quite rich', nowadays), but they still don't feel much of a pinch in the amount of income they can actually spend. After all, the interest alone on $10,000,000 at just 1% is still $100,000 a year -- assuming you don't have any non-executive directorships, let alone a proper job.

Cheers,

R.
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Roger Hicks said:
. Reverse snobbery ('Me grandfather wor a miner') always puzzles me. Its only advantage over ordinary snobbery is that it's cheaper.
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Quite.

The Orange one is the same colour as the day-glo orange plastic fencing they often use to de-mark road works.... the brown one looks like Chicken Dopeaza. Because of their price point they have absolutely no bearing on me, my life or the (platonic but loving) relationship I have with my Black M6 and my Silver M3. Even if I won the lottery, I still think the colours are yuk!

But, yer know, I'm kind of happy that they exist all the same, in the same way that I'm happy Aston Martin DB9s and Lamborghini Murcilagos exist - and I have even less chance of owning one of them!
 
Gong said:
And just and something to think about. It is the beginning of dusk to some of us the golden hour, you are out taking some photographs on a beautiful remote beach. Out of the corner of your eye you spot beautiful woman and she begins approaching you from down the beach her summer dress blowing in the wind. With every step she takes closer to you your heart begins to pound, as now you have noticed that the most beautiful woman you have seen if your life is looking directly at you. As she nears you keep your cool and keep shooting as she continues to close in on your exact location until the spot where you are stand and the the path she is taking intersect. she stops looks into your eyes then your lens. "Is that a leica." she says in her beautiful foreign accent, pointing at yours then to her orange Hermes she flashes you a little smile "Can you teach me." she blushes. Fast forward a year and you are cruising the Mediterranean on a luxurious yacht with your gorgeous fiancee taking photos for the wedding invitations with the same Hermes special edition lecia.
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HA! then I wake up and realise that the sound of waves crashing on the shore is actually my wife snoring....😀
 
The world would certainly be a much richer planet to live on if I knew there was an Orange DB9 out there at 10 times the normal price with the Hermes name on it even if I couldn't afford it.🙄
 
If you don't like the orange... there's also the "Etoupe".

(I think that's just a posh way of saying "Pale sh!t by Moonlight"

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Gong said:
And just and something to think about. It is the beginning of dusk to some of us the golden hour, you are out taking some photographs on a beautiful remote beach. Out of the corner of your eye you spot beautiful woman and she begins approaching you from down the beach her summer dress blowing in the wind. With every step she takes closer to you your heart begins to pound, as now you have noticed that the most beautiful woman you have seen if your life is looking directly at you. As she nears you keep your cool and keep shooting as she continues to close in on your exact location until the spot where you are stand and the the path she is taking intersect. she stops looks into your eyes then your lens. "Is that a leica." she says in her beautiful foreign accent, pointing at yours then to her orange Hermes she flashes you a little smile "Can you teach me." she blushes. Fast forward a year and you are cruising the Mediterranean on a luxurious yacht with your gorgeous fiancee taking photos for the wedding invitations with the same Hermes special edition lecia.
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I would like two of whatever you are on.

A more likely scenario -

As she nears you keep your cool and keep shooting as she continues to close in on your exact location until the spot where you are stand and the the path she is taking intersect. she stops looks into your eyes then your lens. And then she walks around you. "Hey!" you exclaim, indignant that your beautiful dreams have been shattered on the sands, washed away by uncaring waves, without so much as a by your leave. "Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't see you there" she says in her beautiful foreign accent, pointing at your orange Hermes she flashes you a little smile "I thought you were a traffic cone" she blushes.

Cheers,
-Gautham
 
gnarayan said:
I would like two of whatever you are on.

A more likely scenario -

As she nears you keep your cool and keep shooting as she continues to close in on your exact location until the spot where you are stand and the the path she is taking intersect. she stops looks into your eyes then your lens. And then she walks around you. "Hey!" you exclaim, indignant that your beautiful dreams have been shattered on the sands, washed away by uncaring waves, without so much as a by your leave. "Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't see you there" she says in her beautiful foreign accent, pointing at your orange Hermes she flashes you a little smile "I thought you were a traffic cone" she blushes.

Cheers,
-Gautham
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Very good😀 alternate ending, " I thought that was an Orange safety bandage plastered to your face"
 
HAHA I enjoyed the edit, I wrote that after a 3 hour discussion class where we covered advertising strategies for a good portion. The sad but funny thing while vacationing on Martha's Vineyard (island off cape cod MA) I've met girls like the fictional one who look at my camera and tell me how beautiful it is and how it looks just like their grandfathers old one. BTW the fictional girl is the one with the Hermes, I have the old M4 with the peeling vulkinite caressed in my may hands that have been weathered from years of sailing and developing chemistry.

Cheers,
Eric AKA Gong
 
well as much as i find the orange distasteful, it is after all one that can be identified as hermes.

i guess both the orange and etoupe are signature hermes' colours and can be immediately apparent to hermes slaves and the like.

i read that the etoupe strap retails for 70 pounds... anyone know where you can order that? i can do with one 😛
 
If it comes in a Hermès bag, 14k isn't such a bad deal 🙂

But seriously, I once saw a used brown Leica MP Hermès edition at a Calumet store in London and must say that it looked prety nice. what I really wonder is why they don't put out more of these special edition Leicas with the M9. How about a Louis Vuitton edition?
 
jack palmer said:
Always amusing how some people can justify just about anything. I personally equate it with Leica prostituting the brand for a fast buck, but maybe they really need the money.
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Think you're looking at it upside down. Leica is a manufacturer of prestige cameras, that support their bespoke production with a few base models sold to the mass market. That is prostituting the brand.

For gawd's sake, they were recently owned by Hermes. That sends a clear message, no ?

Do you doubt for a minute that given a financially positive model, Leica would produce anything else but Specials ? They do it better than anyone else. Their forte, so to speak.

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Lilserenity said:
If I had the money I would buy them all.

And smash them all with a 2lb lump so that no one has such an obsenity foisted on their eyes again.
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Funnily enough I feel exactly the same about 'E-type' Jags. Probably the same pretentious tw*t that'd drive one of those would buy one of these to go with with their lemon 'V' neck down in the south of France.

Steve.😉
 
Steve_F said:
Funnily enough I feel exactly the same about 'E-type' Jags. Probably the same pretentious tw*t that'd drive one of those would buy one of these to go with with their lemon 'V' neck down in the south of France.

Steve.😉
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WHAT ? E Types are gorgeous Steve ! Go check in ASAP in a clinic, m-a-y-b-e theres still time for you. doubt it thought.

But I'm seriously worried with ME. I like the Orange one.

I would splash 9.000£ on it though. I would buy one of the wide angles summilux and a big trip to some remote country to use it.

But I like it.
 
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