your steel and black dial and this champagne and black dial with red accents have me really interested in a modern Daytona
I asked my AD and he would sell me a YG or WG bracelet and they said yes but it changes the price dramatically
I didn't know that was an option. I thought the regular end links would not work with the case. Good to know then.
I did my own research and you are right and the AD is wrong, the case is different so the end links won’t match up
We may not understand it or agree on its causes, but eBay’s 2019 luxury watch report definitely reflects the overall Rolex craze (SS or otherwise): https://www.ablogtowatch.com/ebay-d...-market-trends-with-2020-luxury-watch-report/
I am surprised Rolex hasn’t gone after eBay for profiting off of the sales of their watches on the second hand market. Or restrict the use of the name in any listing...wouldn’t put it past them.
This comment seems to maybe blur the distinction between “popularity/hype” and “most purchased”? Or, maybe you think that the average datejust would continue to sell more units even if the average sub/GMT/Daytona were all at the same price point and availability?
I typically find ADs to have poor watch knowledge — luckily an added bonus of being a vintage watch guy is never needing to deal with ADs
I think that’s a poor comparison, your assertion is that people buy DJ’s becuase they can’t afford a sub/GMT/Daytona, I think they appeal to a much broader audience for very different reasons.
Note the punctuation in both of my two sentences. Your response to my question does seem to contain a reasoned position, though your response is meanwhile dressed in weird clothing.
Punctuation noted on second view, I saw is as a statement and not a question. Not dressed in any particular way other than to highlight the appeal of the DJ on its own and not in comparison to any other model Rolex carries.
It was a question pregnant with a degree of dubiousness, but willing to hear it out! The key point was noting my confusion between the 'hype' vs 'popular.' If all @janice&fred intended to say was "regardless of the [GMT] hype, datejusts still sell more units" then that seems uncontroversial and obvious. But @janice&fred wrote "despite the [GMT] hype, datejusts are more popular" and I'm not sure what that means (if it doesn't simply mean they sell more units)? Is a Honda Civic more 'popular' than an NSX, insofar as there are more Civic units sold? Surely. Does that mean that if Civics and NSX's were the same price (all in), that the Civic would continue to be more 'popular' than the NSX? I don't know, but I'm not so certain.