Daytona Prices

Why disturbing? He can offer any watch at any price he thinks reflects the market price.

He's also offering an unworn Black dial Daytona at $29,575, a bargain by comparison.

The fact of grey market prices for Rolex Daytonas and other brands/models does not, in and of itself, disturb me.

The seemingly endless threads on the topic, however...

I’m not super bothered by it, partly because my brother and I have 4 of them between us and paid well under MSRP on all of them but what I will say is in Rolex’s lineup which I’ve owned many of, the Daytona is easily the best watch to own and wear and if you’re going to overpay for any Rolex IMO it should be the Daytona.

I wear the 116520 more than any other watch and at one point I had both the Hulk and the Batman GMT as well and never wore either because both had objectively much worse movements, didn’t fit under a shirt cuff as well, were more prone to expensive dings, took too long to set in the mornings (far too long for the GMT) and had a short power reserve that couldn’t survive being taken off on a Friday night and put back on Monday morning.

I sold the Hulk and Batman and both have since gone way up on what sold them for as tends to happen when I sell watches but I have no regrets and will never sell the Daytona as its just that damned good, comfortable, well made and reliable. Also the 4130 Calibres are now around 20 years old, mine is 15 years old and they have proven to be extremely long term durable and I’ve yet to even hear of someone having a significant issue with one unlike many other Rolex calibres.

It’s a great watch and frankly it deserves its money far more than many of their more mediocre 3-handers, and definitely more than some of the odd junk Rolex make like the Sky-Dweller and YM2.

It’s not grey market... flippers are not grey market.

grey market are people that get watches from dealers under MSRP and sell them. Normally these watches are extra and unsold from yearly allocation.

We need a Reddit type intervention....it’s gone beyond the point of return. Seems like the price in ceramic Daytona’s are increasing on a weekly basis.

You’re absolutely correct. 👍

But still a tiresome subject.

Buy them or don’t. 🤦

That infinite question can be asked of Tesla, Bitcoin, digital 'art', tulips and every other high flying 'greatest thing since sliced bread' investment. As the economist Herb Stein once said, 'If something cannot go on forever, it will stop'

I just can’t believe only about 4 or 5 years ago I had a white Daytona for 9g

I sold it 2 years ago for 16..... it is now 20g

I was looking to get a ceramic and ready to pay premium but 34g damn.!