Las Vegas

[Harbuzi]

Am visiting sin city in a couple of months time. Does anybody have any experience of buying watches out there? Any good deals to be had? (I appreciate the exchange rate is not what it once was)!

I know there is a very good store in the forum shopping mall but does anybody know how it compares price wise to what can be bought here?

Cheers

[Blues]

I was there in July this year, and major name watches, Cartier, Breitling and Rolex looked pretty much the same as here

[13 DJP]

I bought my Rolex Yachtmaster there 6 years ago and hunted high and low for the best deal (people more than price as the prices are pretty much fixed).
I ended up buying from The Watch Shop in Treasure Island.
I can highly recommend them, they looked after me very professionally.
My missus cousin lives in Vegas, so can have a word and see if that`s still the best place to buy if you like?

[Harbuzi]

That would be appreciated!! :-)

[13 DJP]

The question has been asked

[13 DJP]

Hiya Harbuzi

Well she`s replied, but hasn`t actually told me where to go, just said she has lots of good Jeweller friends there who sell both new and used, so I may have to send you to find her (this could be a great hardship as she`s a bikini model)

I`ll keep you posted chum

[kelk]

13 DJP said:

Hiya Harbuzi

Well she`s replied, but hasn`t actually told me where to go, just said she has lots of good Jeweller friends there who sell both new and used, so I may have to send you to find her (this could be a great hardship as she`s a bikini model)

I`ll keep you posted chum

No photo - no evidence - I call custard test

[Monty911]

I bought my 45.5mm P.O from Horalogio in the Venetian , they gave me a good price and even offered to post all the packaging back to the UK via DHL to avoid any duty ...... of course i declined

[Harbuzi]

Thank you for the update! Appreciate it!

But regarding what the other poster said...I agree...custard called!!

Venetian is one of my favourite resorts out there so will check out that suggestion too!

[jazzybee]

The shop in Forum is Tourneau. It is huge, and a good retailer, a few of my colleagues bought watches there on our trip last week. I bought a Tag Heuer Carrera at the Outlet Store in LV, when I was there a couple of weeks ago. Will out there again next week.

http://www.tourneau.com/

[Harbuzi]

What were the prices like in the Tag Outlet?

[jazzybee]

Harbuzi said:

What were the prices like in the Tag Outlet?

I bought my run-out special edition Carrera (simple, not twin time), with a Mother of Pearl face, steel surround, and black crocskin/leather strap for about $1325 including taxes in Dec 2009. My colleague bought a similar (but twin time) last year from Tourneau for about $1850 if I remember correctly.

The outlet is cheap, you get the standard 2 year warranty, they stamp the warranty card, and you can still negotiate a little. You don't have a wide choice, its what they have at the time. They usually have aquaracer/link types, Grand Carreras and Monacos, but not so many Carreras.

[13 DJP]

Harbuzi said:

Thank you for the update! Appreciate it!

But regarding what the other poster said...I agree...custard called!!

Venetian is one of my favourite resorts out there so will check out that suggestion too!

Pleasure chum, but there`ll be no custard I`m afraid as I`m rather partial to my kneecaps and both my missus and that side of the family are all Italian/Cicilian
(google perfect tan bikini, she`s on there )

[jazzybee]

jazzybee said:

I bought my run-out special edition Carrera (simple, not twin time), with a Mother of Pearl face, steel surround, and black crocskin/leather strap for about $1325 including taxes in Dec 2009. My colleague bought a similar (but twin time) last year from Tourneau for about $1850 if I remember correctly.

The outlet is cheap, you get the standard 2 year warranty, they stamp the warranty card, and you can still negotiate a little. You don't have a wide choice, its what they have at the time. They usually have aquaracer/link types, Grand Carreras and Monacos, but not so many Carreras.

I had a look today, I thought I would give you some prices.

They had:
Carrera Twin Times for $2600, reduced from $4000.
Carrera Calibre 1 for $2750
Monaco with diamond hour markers for $2080
Big Aquaracers from $999

I took a couple of pics to show which models - will try and upload later.

[Harbuzi]

Excellent! Thank you for that. Pics would be great too!!

[CmdrBond]

Will be watching this thread with interest as heading down there in April to meet friends from the UK, and thought I might buy myself something tasty as not had a prestige watch since buying my Submariner before leaving the UK

[Stu R]

http://www.thejewelers.com/index1.html

These guys are great (though their website is garbage) - I've bought twice from them and I'll be buying another when I'm back out there. If he's still there, try and catch Bruce at the Vicci store in the Forum Shoppes at Caesar's Palace. Both times I've bought, he's got on the phone to his superiors and tried to batter them down on price, some they've got more room on than others, but he'll do everything he can, genuinely.
He's more than happy to shoot the breeze about watches too, a wealth of info, even made me try on a $90k Richard Mille, just because I'd never seen one up close. They've got a bunch of stores scattered across LV, but I always go back there.

There's another in CP who are really good too, but their name escapes me. They sell Franck Mullers and if memory serves they're at the far end of the Forum Shoppes towards the exit that's overlooked by Harrah's - not the massive store which sprawls across 2 floors, that place has some nice stuff but they're not great to deal with from my experience.

The Tag Outlet is really good on price, though I've no experience of buying from them.