Zero sales tax in Oregon. Zero tax on zero available watches means zero savings.
It's the regular Moonwatches and Seamasters that are sad. They are priced out of reach for many new watch owners. If memory is right, in 2018, a hesalite on bracelet was about $5200, and offered a discount of 20% by different shops around the holidays (i got mine new even less). I never thought they'd go up so much so soon. But I didn't expect a lot of things.
Longines and Hamilton and Tissot also. Longines up about 8%. They are supposed to be great value for a nice build. The build is the same but they're pushing into competitors territory.
As someone previously discussed, because the companies don't want arbitrage, the prices rise across the world to offset the US price increase due to tariffs. If the tariffs drop as they are expected (due to being ruled illegal or due to a settlement), the price increases will remain. The brands could decide to lower the wholesale cost for countries outside the US, which would keep the same retail price worldwide, but that might incentivise discounts in those markets. Who knows? But these are likely here to stay and must be due to tariffs. Hopefully the brands raised the prices enough to cover the US tariffs and we won't see another rise for awhile.
