I could buy a vintage camera and have it serviced for considerably less.
Certainly, but I'm not sure you could get anything that would compare with the sort of image quality this one is likely* to deliver. Most vintage roll-film folders suffered from poor film flatness problems, and had at best only single coated Tessar-type lenses (uncoated, prior to about the mid-1940s) - respectable enough at 'standard' focal length, but unlikely to match what we can almost certainly expect from a modern multicoated six-element Fujinon.
The only 'vintage' camera that I can immediately think of that would probably be genuinely comparable would be the Plaubel Makina 67, which I think generally goes for a lot more than £650.
* - I'm speculating, obviously, but this type of camera is not new in the modern photographic era (cf. the Plaubel Makina I mentioned, or Fuji's own past record in both rigid and folding medium format rangefinders), and Fuji's abilities in the optical department are also a known quantity. there seems no reason not to expect excellent image quality, almost certainly surpassing what is typically achieved by vintage folders.
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