Rolex AD's allocation - is this right?
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Hi, I have been 1st on the wait list with a London AD for a SS white faced Daytona for just over a year (total wait 4 years....so far). My history with the AD is I have bought 2 rolex's and have 2 more on the wait list. They say in the last year they have received 2 Black face Daytona's and no White faces. Does this sounds right, in terms of allocation for a London Rolex AD?
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For a start their is no list, you are being placated to keep you keen. Any watches that have arrived have went to buyers who were already picked before any watch landed.
Buy a Day Date, then collect your Daytona in zip time.
Rolex really are arses for treating people this way, but one look at the second hand flippers market they have created shows how well it is working.
For a start their is no list, you are being placated to keep you keen. Any watches that have arrived have went to buyers who were already picked before any watch landed.
Buy a Day Date, then collect your Daytona in zip time.
Rolex really are arses for treating people this way, but one look at the second hand flippers market they have created shows how well it is working.
offshoreeddy said:
Five years ago I was on the wait for a SS Daytona with a white dial. Went to Dubai on holiday; whilst there walked into Siddiqi's in Atlantis, told them what I wanted - either a black or white dial SS Daytona - and they had both for me to look at two days later, and at less than UK list, still in factory transit packaging.
Just a suggestion - flights to Dubai aren't that expensive.
I doubt that will happen today. Demand was bad enough with the old stianelss bezel, the demand ramped up 10notches with the release of the ceramic bezel.Just a suggestion - flights to Dubai aren't that expensive.
You’re not first on the list
There is no list
There are bigger fishes than you that will have been given the watches
You are not likely to get a white faced Daytona
They are not likely to effectively hand you £10,000. You have the sales staff wanting them and their families and friends and their best clients that they do regular business with
If you were a salesman you would have to wait your turn as each salesman would have their own clients they want to sell to buy they would go to the ones they know have real money and will be repeat customers
There is no list
There are bigger fishes than you that will have been given the watches
You are not likely to get a white faced Daytona
They are not likely to effectively hand you £10,000. You have the sales staff wanting them and their families and friends and their best clients that they do regular business with
If you were a salesman you would have to wait your turn as each salesman would have their own clients they want to sell to buy they would go to the ones they know have real money and will be repeat customers
SagMan said:
Without going into too much detail . My knowledge is that AD’a now know what professional watches they will be getting in 2020 and roughly when. Non professional watches can be ordered as usual .
I have one watch to collect this month and one due Q4 if funds permit !
Is that a very new thing? Hadn’t heard that before.I have one watch to collect this month and one due Q4 if funds permit !
The trouble with these threads is that ADs are all doing their own thing so although the OP might be getting honest and accurate advice for his situation, someone else may know a dealer that is doing something completely different with sought after watches.
The only dealer I half know is a colleague’s school friend. He said he just gave them to people he knew but it was actually mates etc not just people who’d bought other watches from him.
Proof of it was that my mate and other workmates have ended up getting hard to get watches from him with no previous buying history at all.
I suppose id imagine what would I do if I was running a dealership. You’ve got long lists of people wanting to buy Rolexes and then your friend wants one, would you sell it to someone you didn’t really know or to your friend etc.
They’ve pretty much got a captive market with buyers phoning them up and popping in all the time and can do what they want tbh.
As an aside I popped into Rolex at T5 today. I was just killing some time and got into the usual conversation with the guys. I was told how great Rolex were and if they had a case full of Daytona’s that they wouldn’t sell. The arrogance of them is quite remarkable and again, they seem to trot out the line ‘if you’re not on the list..’. I was also told that it’s because they’re such high quality that there are none about..this poor chap must have come straight from a supermarket? Anyway, hoping to find something I like in one of the places I’ll be venturing out to in the coming months. Should of purchased the Batman GMT when I had the chance a while back. You live and learn!
rosetank said:
As an aside I popped into Rolex at T5 today. I was just killing some time and got into the usual conversation with the guys. I was told how great Rolex were and if they had a case full of Daytona’s that they wouldn’t sell. The arrogance of them is quite remarkable and again, they seem to trot out the line ‘if you’re not on the list..’. I was also told that it’s because they’re such high quality that there are none about..this poor chap must have come straight from a supermarket? Anyway, hoping to find something I like in one of the places I’ll be venturing out to in the coming months. Should of purchased the Batman GMT when I had the chance a while back. You live and learn!
I went there a while ago and it was empty and nothing on display, I went into a watches of Switzerland nearby which was fantastic and had loads of great watches and fantastic and friendly sales people. I thought it was a great little shop. Obviously not much good if you want a Rolex though. rosetank said:
Absolutely, lots of really interesting things in Watches of Switzerland for sure. The Rolex place said they get 300+ requests for the usual things, I suggested a sign on the window 
Like the old no Irish signs? Maybe they’ll all get those displays models with no movements that are appearing in ADs
Rolex in T5 IS Watches of Switzerland. Yes, the Rolex franchise has it’s own, separate site, but they’re both WoS set-ups.
Last time I looked, all of the sales staff in the Rolex franchise were wearing SS tool watches. I was dropping my SS Daytona in for repairs (the THIRD time that it’s “failed to proceed”). Well used, I bought it new from the AD in Windsor about 17 years ago. Of my four half-decent watches, it’s probably the one I’m least precious about, so it takes a bit of a beating.
The late-twenties/early-thirties shop assistant, wearing his ceramic Hulk, was almost sneering as he noted the dings and scratches on the servicing sheet. I wasn’t at all impressed.
I left the jumped-up little twot to spend the rest of his day working behind a shop counter and walked off to skipper my airliner for the rest of mine.
Last time I looked, all of the sales staff in the Rolex franchise were wearing SS tool watches. I was dropping my SS Daytona in for repairs (the THIRD time that it’s “failed to proceed”). Well used, I bought it new from the AD in Windsor about 17 years ago. Of my four half-decent watches, it’s probably the one I’m least precious about, so it takes a bit of a beating.
The late-twenties/early-thirties shop assistant, wearing his ceramic Hulk, was almost sneering as he noted the dings and scratches on the servicing sheet. I wasn’t at all impressed.
I left the jumped-up little twot to spend the rest of his day working behind a shop counter and walked off to skipper my airliner for the rest of mine.
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