SUB Dilemma

[IPK]

Good morning.

Some advice please.

just had a call from my local Rolex dealer to say that my 2008 16610 is ready for collection after it's service. The thing is I haven't missed wearing it whilst it has been away and actually prefer not wearing it!

I'm tempted to ask the dealer to bid me a price on it but am not totally sure on it's worth.

Another option is to get a watchwinder and put it away, in the safe, unworn from it's service and keep it until it becomes vintage.

My questions are, what is the price, roughly, to expect a dealer to bid for it, what could I expect to advertise it privatley for, and if I left it, say twenty years, would I expect it's value to hold or apprieciate significantly? I don't, at this time, need the money from any sale, so I am really looking at the best way of maximizing it's worth.

Thanks for any help.

Cheers

[yeti]

Absolutely pointless guessing the value in 20 years time, it's a watch made by the hundreds of thousands, zero rarity value. Also if you keep it on a watch wider, it'll need a service every 5 years! Not like the time a date are tough to set is it?

Sell it privately, with service papers plenty on here will bite your hand off for it. What over you get here or elsewhere privately will be around 1000 more than the dealer will offer.

[yeti]

Check chrono24 for prices for a vague idea, and consider that a) you're in the UK and b) it's freshly serviced. Both good things for best price!

Be sure though. I soul searched long and hard over selling my Exp II and Daytona and they were the right choices to go. If my Sea-Dweller had gone though, I'd be wailing and gnashing my teeth...

[mrdemon]

21 for sale here
http://watchfinder.co.uk/Rolex/Submariner/Watches

with a service on ebay they go for about 3.5k

[IPK]

Thanks for the info.