If its US only, i suspect its going to affect the UK negatively. UK pricing in USD is already attractive vs US pricing + sales tax (not including VAT refunds). This would further make the UK a more attractive place to source these references and make the scarcity here worse. This was corrected partially by the UK price rise last year, but this will create the imbalance again.
The UK price imbalance with Rolex would be the case study here.
5172 is $35,600 in the UK (including VAT), in the US with tax its going to be $43k (approx.)
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