ROLEX releases new model "The Holiday" due to stock shortages!

Foo2rama · Feb 12, 2020

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Ok Dan/Evitzee, ill take my medicine ... as you said just my own view and thats how i started the thread ... given i have colored it in a bit, but the point im trying to make is that for the price of a discounted flight ticket, its worth going on holiday where there is stock and have the piece of mind of buying an authentic piece given how the market is panning out...
And i will stick to my definition of a flipper ... a store that employes staff, pays taxes and offers a fair price is still a good guy ...

yes, but your 100% wrong. You have a narrow view that is not supported by the wide proven view.

Lonestar · Feb 12, 2020

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You are posting pics of grey/flipppers prices as places that have watches "in stock", supposedly answering our question "where do we travel to to find them"... The underlying element to our question is "at MSRP". Otherwise, of course if one is willing to pay 2x retail, there are TONS of them available outside of the regular retail network. For instance, there are 345 NEW BLRO's available on C24... (https://www.chrono24.com/search/ind...tToSearchIndex=true&sortorder=0&usedOrNew=new)

Lonestar · Feb 12, 2020

Evitzee
I was told by someone in the industry that the Bucherer outlet in Luzern is the largest seller of Rolex in the world. They get several shipments from Rolex per day, yet no steel professional models in stock. Somehow they disappear between the receiving dock and the showcases.

yes indeed - my friend who works at Bucherer GVA says that the leaders in the Luzern HQ have the most popular models shipped directly to the customers who are entitled to one. Given the waitlists, they just never make it to the shop windows.

And Bucherer is working pretty hard against flippers (got a friend who flipped his BLRO bought from Bucherer, and he got a phone call from them a couple of weeks after: the guy he flipped it to quietly, didn't do so quietly later on and the serial appeared on a pic on the intrawebz... true story) so I wouldn't expect Bucherer to feed the grey market directly.

Net - the best time to get on a waitlist was yesterday, the second best is today 😀

(or don't believe the hype and buy something else!)

killer67 · Feb 12, 2020

This is a hopeless thread guys. I’m done

CoDiffe · Feb 12, 2020

Since this thread is completely 🤨 here is a pic of my most recent acquisition I’m super stoked about:

janice&fred · Feb 12, 2020

here's a rougher one we recently picked up. luckily the stains and damage is on the acrylic not the dial 😀

Archer · Feb 12, 2020

Foo2rama
that’s flatly wrong. I’ve talked to long time Rolex sales people. They are not receiving any SS sports models to sell. It’s not them being skimmed off for flippers. That makes zero sense for an AD to do. That just ruins relationships with other buyers for someone that would be buying anyways.

your logic is clearly flawed.

This is the thing people don't seem to want to pay attention to. The watches are just not being delivered to AD's in the volume they once were. People have often said they are being directed to other markets, but if that's true where and more importantly, why?

Evitzee · Feb 12, 2020

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Ok Dan/Evitzee, ill take my medicine ... as you said just my own view and thats how i started the thread ... given i have colored it in a bit, but the point im trying to make is that for the price of a discounted flight ticket, its worth going on holiday where there is stock and have the piece of mind of buying an authentic piece given how the market is panning out...
And i will stick to my definition of a flipper ... a store that employes staff, pays taxes and offers a fair price is still a good guy ...

I've got my credit card out, tell us where the AD's are who have steel professional models in stock. Have passport, will travel.

Larry S · Feb 12, 2020

STANDY
Hear Wuhan is cheap at the moment.......

1) Their year end doesn’t need to be healthy as they are not a public company

I’d be cautious here. Year end at private companies is just as intense as with public. ( sometimes worse) Your burning down DJ inventory though is plausible.

Porker · Feb 12, 2020

Most of us probably enjoy the thrill of the chase as much as owning them, so nothing wrong with adding a holiday Rolex to the bucket list.

Some will oppose this type of scrutiny of the Rolex market as it affects their own pockets. If this thread helped one person it was surely worth it...

vicsdca · Feb 12, 2020

It's not just because of flippers. People (collectors) like to have more watches in the safe than ever before. Personally, I would not mind owning two examples of my favorite pieces. One to use as a beater and the other to keep new. It's a new mindset I think.

watch3s · Feb 12, 2020

vicsdca
It's not just because of flippers. People (collectors) like to have more watches in the safe than ever before. Personally, I would not mind owning two examples of my favorite pieces. One to use as a beater and the other to keep new. It's a new mindset I think.

one to rock and one to stock has always been my motto

Porker · Feb 14, 2020

forget about the flippers... it seems the corona virus might have the last say... if the Chinese market goes, all that stock might be channeled to your local dealer... dont book that plane ticket yet.

Foo2rama · Feb 14, 2020

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forget about the flippers... it seems the corona virus might have the last say... if the Chinese market goes, all that stock might be channeled to your local dealer... dont book that plane ticket yet.

Donfiore · Feb 14, 2020

Honestly in Brazil it's pretty easy to get SS models except the GMTs and the Daytonas. Subs, DJ and everything else are always in stock.

Foo2rama · Feb 14, 2020

Donfiore
Honestly in Brazil it's pretty easy to get SS models except the GMTs and the Daytonas. Subs, DJ and everything else are always in stock.

At MSRP?

if so look up the term arbitrage and make some money.

Donfiore · Feb 14, 2020

Foo2rama
At MSRP?

Some items even below MSRP a few times of the year, my DJ41 blue dial for example was bought at 40k BRL in 30th December, which would be the equivalent today of 9,3k USD and it's the 126334, blue dial, white gold bezel and jubilee bracelet.
Subs are usually at MSRP at the AD or slightly above MSRP, around 2-4% above.

shaun hk · Feb 14, 2020

I am in Hong Kong and always look in the window of any Rolex boutique or AD I wander past and there are no SS sports watches displayed. Two tone, yep you can buy but GMT, Subs nothing and as others have said there never has been any steel Daytona’s.

Foo2rama · Feb 14, 2020

Donfiore
Some items even below MSRP a few times of the year, my DJ41 blue dial for example was bought at 40k BRL in 30th December, which would be the equivalent today of 9,3k USD and it's the 126334, blue dial, white gold bezel and jubilee bracelet.
Subs are usually at MSRP at the AD or slightly above MSRP, around 2-4% above.

they are not an AD if they go above MSRP.

watch3s · Feb 14, 2020

shaun hk
I am in Hong Kong and always look in the window of any Rolex boutique or AD I wander past and there are no SS sports watches displayed. Two tone, yep you can buy but GMT, Subs nothing and as others have said there never has been any steel Daytona’s.

however are all the hot models available at other places? the non ads or the shops on the watch streets?

ROLEX releases new model "The Holiday" due to stock shortages!

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