Correct me if I'm wrong, they seemed to be inferring 'These other manufacturers have long waiting lists for these colours, but you can buy the Mathey-Tissot now.'
If I'm right ... so what? Let's say it's true, let's say there is a 2-3 year waiting list for Rolex's and other high end brands with these colours. I know if I had my heart set on a certain brand e.g. Rolex, I'd be more likely to wait than buy the Mathey-Tissot just because it has the colour I want.
Yeah, the first time i heard it i thought he meant the brands were waiting 3 years for the dials but when he said it again it was new customers ordering from the brands. That's what you get when listening to tv when you're on the PC.

If you were after a Rolex or the two brands they mentioned, as you say you would either wait or be looking at equivalent quality watches, no way would you be saying, oh have to wait a year, can't be bothered waiting want my watch now, ok will buy a Mathey-Tissot £140 quartz watch as an alternative. Be a bit like having your heart set on red Ferrari 458, oh have to wait year, sod that will get a red Ford Fiesta instead.

I don't have a Rolex and never really been interested in buying one, too many folk buy them as a status symbol which kinda puts me off the brand, like the look of a few of them though, but not prepared to pay the asking prices for them, but if I did and couldn't get because of a waiting list, then i would probably be looking at something similar or close quality, Omega, Tudor, Breitling, Glashutte etc not Mathey-Tissot, no disrespect to them, but they are not in the same league as the others, in days gone buy when they were making their own movements, but these days they make good watches but are just a decent Swiss affordable to entry level luxury brand and despite Reynolds going on about how much one raised at an auction, which really was only because the present owner of Mathey-Tissot wanted the watch and was paying over the odds to make sure he got it, they don't keep their value anywhere near as well as the brands i've mentioned.
Of course there is a lot of folks who can't afford a Rolex, but there are plenty of homages to Rolex watches out there at really affordable prices and without the crap sales patter from IW.