Great question @OlDirtyBezel. We are not notified by the manufacturer as to which models we should put on sale ( or maybe - we didn't get the memo 🙄 ).  More likely - its market forces at play - competitive price matching by actively monitoring competitors or the manufacturers themselves.  There's software for this.

For us - we don't use tech to help dynamically monitor and display the lowest price possible amongst other ADs.  Instead - our pricing is benchmarked against the manufacturers website.  

We do however recognize the practicality of having competitive pricing.  On that - we simply do price matching.  There's a link to our price matching request on every product page.  We normally answer within the hour during business hours.  

https://www.revwatches.com/price-match/

Thanks @Omeganut.  The REV WATCHES store and e-commerce site opened a little less than 6 months ago so we're still learning about our customers.  So far, we love that a lot of people come into our store already with a watch in mind.  They've done their research, but maybe haven't seen it in person yet.  Sometimes, pictures don't do the watch justice.  There's just something special about seeing it on your own wrist, feeling the weight / materials, and walking out the door while wearing a new timepiece 😎.  We enjoy it.  

Repairs and straps replacements are other common asks.  On that, I've got a couple questions for the community here:

1) Provided your watch is outside the warranty period - where do you take the watch for repair / restoration?  What do you look for? 

2) What feature do you look for in a replacement or secondary strap?

Agree - they do have bunch in a lot of innovation into the watch... but you touched on the most important aspect - Branding.  It's useless to pretend that isn't important.  As far as I see, they partner with more pro athletes, olympic contenders, and celebrities than any other watch brand today.  It works - it's now nearly impossible to get an allocation of any new RM releases in the last 5 years.

We wrote a series of articles on this topic.  Check it out. 

Within that budget, Seiko 5's are hard to beat.  You can see the quality immediately when you have one in hand.  That's partly because you'd be buying a watch from one of the few vertically integrated watchmaker.  

The SRPE in your photo is perfect for a daily.  If you need something a bit more casual but sharp - can always go with a blacked out model like the SRPH45.  

We put out an article on the Seiko 5 Sports line not too long ago.  See if that helps. 

Lange for sure.  
FP Journe - if you're lucky enough to get an allocation for any watch. 
Grand Seiko and Seiko anytime. 

No doubt - the Odysseus is in the same league as the royal oak or nautilus. It's newer and so it will take time before you start to see them on people's wrists - plus they are sold out in most places so that's a good sign.  Love the big dates and the pushers.