Rolex BLNR "Batman" - buy at premium?

[FWIW]

Great advice there, thanks gents!

I’ll let you know how I get on.

BishBosh - can you say who the dealer was, I’d go for 12. Mine is a December 16 so still 2yrs warranty.

Cheers

[BishBosh]

FWIW said:

Great advice there, thanks gents!

I’ll let you know how I get on.

BishBosh - can you say who the dealer was, I’d go for 12. Mine is a December 16 so still 2yrs warranty.

Cheers

Sorry, I've no idea. He had a good look at the watch seemed to know his stuff I asked if he wanted it for himself and said that he was buying for a customer. Nice guy. Left the cash took the watch couldn't ask for an easier transaction. However I did buy a fake note marker pen in anticipation of the cash sale and used it on a few of the notes whilst counting. Put it into the bank soon after.
Good luck with your sale. I suspect that warranty on yours is easily worth an extra £800-£1000. Mine was just out of warranty which was commented on and I didn't realise.

Edited by BishBosh on Saturday 31st August 08:48

[FWIW]

Thanks BB, much appreciated.

Lots of offers coming in from the bay of e between 11 and 11.5. Hackett offered “up to 10”.
Still waiting to be insulted by Watchfinder

[Fipster]

BishBosh said:

Sold mine via eBay on a £1 selling fee day. After a few idiot offers along with some genuine ones it turns out a watch dealer came over to view and bought it for cash. Lovely guy and it all turned out good for me.

This was around July this year and paid me £12k. I used it infrequently and really enjoyed owning it but the Apple Watch was always on my wrist and I started to get worried about wearing £12k worth of watch outside the house.
Very happy with my sale as I only paid £5.5k for it new back in 2014.

That sounds a really strong price - I’d definitely let my 2016 model go for that. I’d have expected a trade bid of no more than £10k.

[BrewsterBear]

Fipster said:

That sounds a really strong price - I’d definitely let my 2016 model go for that. I’d have expected a trade bid of no more than £10k.

I was thinking the same. I'd be more than happy to let mine go for £12k.

[trowelhead]

Lord.Vader said:

FWIW said:

I could do with selling my BLNR - what's the best method? Do any dealers do SOR at a reasonable rate? Is Chrono24 any good/safe?

Mark Worthington in Wilmslow, probably 10-15% above anyone else.

Just sold my Daytona to them.

+1, i've sold a daytona, blnr and a sub to them, great to deal with

[trowelhead]

BishBosh said:

FWIW said:

I could do with selling my BLNR - what's the best method? Do any dealers do SOR at a reasonable rate? Is Chrono24 any good/safe?

Sold mine via eBay on a £1 selling fee day. After a few idiot offers along with some genuine ones it turns out a watch dealer came over to view and bought it for cash. Lovely guy and it all turned out good for me.

This was around July this year and paid me £12k. I used it infrequently and really enjoyed owning it but the Apple Watch was always on my wrist and I started to get worried about wearing £12k worth of watch outside the house.
Very happy with my sale as I only paid £5.5k for it new back in 2014.

I did the same as this haha. I was always worrying about losing / breaking an expensive watch - ended up selling them and now wear apple watch for an easy life

BUT i wish i'd kept the BLNR as sold it for 7k now worth a few thousand more. Oh well. If that money was in funds in S&S isa would have risen by similar amount...

[Ballistic]

I saw a used one in the window of a non Rolex dealer in Meadowhall this week. Asking was £15k
A few years ago these used to sit in dealers window for ages at list, before all of this madness started. I knew I should have bought one.

Edited by Ballistic on Saturday 7th September 06:51

[trowelhead]

Just checked the values - these are now fetching 12-14k!

Sadly i stupidly sold my watches a while ago - at various points had BLNR, Kermit and a ceramic daytona

Looks like the above would have significantly outperformed an ISA over the period damn.

[Dezbo]

Holy thread revival Batman! These still seem to be very difficult to get hold of from ADs and not much softening in grey market values. Will be interesting to see what happens to the older reference with the Oyster bracelet once the new reference with Oyster inevitably hits the grey market

[audidoody]

FWIW said:

Thanks BB, much appreciated.

Lots of offers coming in from the bay of e between 11 and 11.5. Hackett offered “up to 10”.
Still waiting to be insulted by Watchfinder

Watchfinder gave me the highest bid out of three on a Sub 14060M. About £1,000 more than No 2. Courier picked it up. Money in the account within 48 hours.

[FWIW]

audidoody said:

FWIW said:

Thanks BB, much appreciated.

Lots of offers coming in from the bay of e between 11 and 11.5. Hackett offered “up to 10”.
Still waiting to be insulted by Watchfinder

Watchfinder gave me the highest bid out of three on a Sub 14060M. About £1,000 more than No 2. Courier picked it up. Money in the account within 48 hours.

You can’t do that! How much?