Advisory : Buying Watches (Changi Airport)

[ping3288]

i dun think so

from what i know, the few retailers at terminal 1 to 3 do not carry sinn.

can any bro confirm that?

[bing]

local AD is THG, so far no THG at the airport hor...

[Carz]

OIC, it's a pity. Want to get Sinn watches and hoping be able to get from airport.

[rueyloon]

Buying from Airport

hello

hi, I'm wondering if you guys have any experience with buying from airport duty free shops ?

I'm looking for a Zenith for the wife. Do you know if their discount will be better than from town ? I did a check at T3 and found that the JLC were are 25 + 7 % discount, abit more if you're ready to plonk down the money. Sincere is at T1 hence I didn't check.

cheers
rgs
rueyloon

[wolfeyes1974]

hi bro RL,

buying from airport is not necessarily cheaper. for example, u can get 35% buying JLC from AD using cash inclusive of GST...in airport, u get 25%+7%GST of the selling price (effectively lesser than 32%)...however, u can find some good bargains from other airports sometimes..

cheers

james

[Oceanklassik]

Changi Airport Shops

Hi,

I've done a search but could not find any concrete information on purchasing of watches from our Airport. So, I hope to find out the following:

1. Is it worth to buy watches from those shops at the Airport?
2. If yes, any particular brands to look out for?

Tx.

[rotan]

Saw from previous posts that there is one shop at T3 selling watches at a good price but cannot remember the name liao. That place I think also have quite a lot of watches you normally cannot get outside i.e in demand watches

Think the brand to look out for is IWC.

[sys12345]

I think it depends on particular brands and models. I do know of this:

1) Ball : NO!

2) Longines: YES!

This is based on prices are duty free shops in T2 and T3 departure areas. Others may like to fill in for the rest of the brands.

[Darkangel]

Based on normal walk in customer price...Airport is better...but of course if u hav some lobang lobang then cheaper to buy from your lobang

[dominique_kwok]

Cartier prices at T1 were a lot better too. Well that was based on the last time that I checked. Think the name of the shop is Gassan Watches in T3.

[Oceanklassik]

Wonderful info guys! Yes, T3 is Gassan Watches. I was wondering if I can move around the terminals if I check in earlier, so as to shop around, ie from T1 to T3?

[mhgoh]

Yes, can take the sky train btw the terminals and shop till boarding time.

[Oceanklassik]

Appreciate response. Tx.

[rotan]

Yes, can take the sky train btw the terminals and shop till boarding time.

I believe the shop is after the immigration counter so you cannot actually go between terminals once you check in.

[CFC]

based on walk in,Gassan Watch @ T3 the price is quite competitive for IWC as I've asked for prices of IWC Top Gun 44mm which they quoted me S$XXXX last night when I'm in airport working.PM me if you wanna know how much I'm quoted.