Is the Laureato the newest hot/unobtainable piece?

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I picked up a Laureato blue dial in December with a nice discount via a Grey. I can see threads on here from as recently as Feb saying people are picking these up with 10%-15% discount.

As of today;

- the grey I bought from are saying they can’t get any Laureato at all full stop!
- one AD I’ve been to in store has empty cases and says all allocation for the year gone
- another AD saying they have none (asked about chrono version) and can’t say when they will
- Watches of Switzerland have the Laureato range as enquire now, when it used to be add to bag and deliver next day
- none on watchfinder
- chrono 24 seems to be showing blue dial 42mms that were 10-15% discount 6 weeks ago as now being 3-4 x list price. Literally ones on there at £20k - £30k

So my question, what the hell has happened over 6 weeks!?

I had an inkling these would be the next hot watch as those who can’t get a Patek/AP/VC would naturally turn to the GP Laureato. But i didn’t think it would go from discount to unobtainable in a few weeks