Rolex BLNR "Batman" - buy at premium?

[Rapido1]

Was in Dubai over the Xmas period and the waiting times were 2 months max at both AD's I visited for the BLNR.
They had one in Dubai duty free which I would have picked up but price worked out to around £6700 with no discount available.
If the exchange rate was as it was last year I would have picked it up at close to £5500 - a no brainer!

[jonamv8]

Bought mine from Barbados at the right price as 'investment' or flip but thats gone out the window as im wearing it, A LOT:

[Buster73]

[quotee=Rapido1]Was in Dubai over the Xmas period and the waiting times were 2 months max at both AD's I visited for the BLNR.
They had one in Dubai duty free which I would have picked up but price worked out to around £6700 with no discount available.
If the exchange rate was as it was last year I would have picked it up at close to £5500 - a no brainer!
[/quote]


The various Rolex I've looked at there have never been a real bargain in terms of Duty free , bearing in mind they don't always have everything in stock, make sure you visit a Rolex dealer in one of the malls before you leave , one salesman offered me discount on a Yachtmaster without prompting.

[trowelhead]

jonamv8 said:

Bought mine from Barbados at the right price as 'investment' or flip but thats gone out the window as im wearing it, A LOT:

Looks great!

[jonamv8]

trowelhead said:

jonamv8 said:

Bought mine from Barbados at the right price as 'investment' or flip but thats gone out the window as im wearing it, A LOT:

Looks great!

Cheers you would be surprised at how the blue section changes colour from a bright blue to almost black in various lights. It looks quite dark in that photo

[forest172]

Goldsmiths meadowhall quoting 12 months on a BLNR and a SubLVc. Which surprised me

[HD Adam]

All this Batman talk got to me in the end.

Like Oscar Wilde, I can resist everything except temptation.

Popped into see our very own Mr Dom H and picked this one up.

[kmpowell]

HD Adam said:

Popped into see our very own Mr Dom H and picked this one up.

Congrats, I think there's a fair few of here who he's recently sorted out with a 'Batman'. It'll explain how he's managed to be off skiing for the past month!

[Mr Bubble n Squeak]

Rolex beards, a question. Do they do a non date version of this watch?

[Master Bean]

Mr Bubble n Squeak said:

Rolex beards, a question. Do they do a non date version of this watch?

Nope.

[f1_dragon]

Bit of a bump, are these still so hard to come by? Chrono24 prices seem to still be well over retail.

[Kiernan]

f1_dragon said:

Bit of a bump, are these still so hard to come by? Chrono24 prices seem to still be well over retail.

I think so - I've got my name down at my local AD and they're quoting a wait of around 12 months. There's a jeweler just up the road (not a Rolex dealer) and they have a brand new BLNR in the window for £7,880 so they're still pretty hard to come by.

They also have a white faced Daytona for £16,500 and whilst it looks great, I just couldn't bring myself to pay that sort of premium for something that has a list price of just over £9,000.

[f1_dragon]

Yeh, I helped a friend get a 2017 1-owner Zurich watch at £7.1k as I am after a 2013 model and was hoping they would be around 6.5k but they are trading at similar if not more than that 2017!

[Kickstart]

I am a Rolex novice but after Mrs Kickstart indicated she wanted a BLNR for birthday present I contacted 2 dealers and put in orders - both were in the NW - neither quoted a time but 1st call was about 6- 8 weeks later strangely other dealer rang me same day and offered Sub - both date and no date
sadly budget did not stretch to Sub ND as really like them

[Briza]

Dubai yesterday, sorry about image quality.
29,835 Dirhams, £6485

[trowelhead]

Briza said:

Dubai yesterday, sorry about image quality.
29,835 Dirhams, £6485

Get it bought :-)

[sidicks]

kmpowell said:

Congrats, I think there's a fair few of here who he's recently sorted out with a 'Batman'. It'll explain how he's managed to be off skiing for the past month!

[rigster2]

I've a 2013 that will be in classifieds soon.

[bazza.]

My dealer gave me a call a week ago to tell me my Batman is there I gave them a deposit
but won't be able to pick the watch up for another 11 weeks as I'm working a way

[andymc]

Are there many 2017 available or still with strong premiums