Stainless sports Rolex dealer stock........

nurseford25

Either my brother was extremely lucky or there is no shortage and rather a controlled release of SS sport models into the market by Rolex. He went int an AD in Carmel, CA put his name down for a BLNR and in less than a week they called him. He had no previous history buying any Rolex from any AD and has only previously purchased a GMT master 16750 on the second hand market. Neither him or I are overly wealthy but we can afford a retail piece if one pops up. He was even given a few days to think over the purchase. He was given his warranty card, box and other papers and the stickers were left on the watch. In essence he could’ve flipped it the next day but of course he didn’t. I just can’t believe it’s as bad as the forum chatter would lead on. The only thing that was questionable was the AD said that they preferred to sell to locals over out of town era hunting for watches. Who knows but this story at least proves that it can be done and done without all of the shenanigans about warranty holding and signing no sell contracts. And because we need some pics. I got to check it out two weeks ago. Such a cool watch.

Foo2rama

Good for him!

Have you gone to the Boutique at South Coast or into Traditional’s Rolex boutique at Fashion Island though? Wastelands unless you want a weird dial variations or small DJ.

ac106

So in the last 36 months the worldwide AD market had a meeting (in the Caymen Islands or maybe Singapore) and decided they are going to dump all their stock of stainless sport watches on the gray market simultaneously. 750000 of them!
And this actually raised the prices on the grey market!
And Rolex hasn’t done anything different
And all this time Rolex has been pumping out the same numbers from 5 years ago?
And no one from Rolex HQ has noticed that THIER ENTIRE AD NETWORK is completely out of stainless sport models?
No one in Geneva thinks this is odd?

Or maybe there is a shortage

Davidt

First of all, having thought and read some more, I think you are possibly right that ss stockmay be getting slightly restricted at the source from Rolex, for whatever reason.

However, I definitely think there's is a significant element of what I describe.

You mentioned a couple of times things like "dumping all their stock on the grey market" and "having a meeting/simultaneously deciding to do this". I didn't say that. What I said, and what I think is happening is ADs over the course if a year or two started doing this. They didn't need to have a meeting - they have eyes and can see what's going on around them in other areas and the practice could easily have started in one or several areas and spread.

Secondly, I don't think they're dumping stock on the grey market. Given how popular Rolex ss models are there isn't usually a whole load of stock to dump. As new ss stock comes I think ADs trickle a large portion out to the grey market and another letiok out to well established customers/those who recently bought a couple watches/lucky ones who are in the right place at the right time.

I don't think Rolex cares about this. It's increasing the desirability of their brand, resale value is through the roof - which makes a rise on rrp easier to implement and all ss stock is sold before it hits the shelves.

The main point for me though, is people you and I are arguing about it on the internet. As someone else mentioned, we have all these online watch 'journalists' and no one has thought to investigate this?!

nurseford25

Either my brother was extremely lucky or there is no shortage and rather a controlled release of SS sport models into the market by Rolex. He went int an AD in Carmel, CA put his name down for a BLNR and in less than a week they called him. He had no previous history buying any Rolex from any AD and has only previously purchased a GMT master 16750 on the second hand market. Neither him or I are overly wealthy but we can afford a retail piece if one pops up. He was even given a few days to think over the purchase. He was given his warranty card, box and other papers and the stickers were left on the watch. In essence he could’ve flipped it the next day but of course he didn’t. I just can’t believe it’s as bad as the forum chatter would lead on. The only thing that was questionable was the AD said that they preferred to sell to locals over out of town era hunting for watches. Who knows but this story at least proves that it can be done and done without all of the shenanigans about warranty holding and signing no sell contracts. And because we need some pics. I got to check it out two weeks ago. Such a cool watch.

chunkythebulldog

Just witnessed Rolex AD shithousery first hand. Me, have you any St St sports models? AD, yes if you buy this €33k white gold GMT you can walk away with either a Daytona, GMT or Skydweller of your choice. He then fetches them all out but no pictures allowed. That was Ideal jewellers in Costa Adeje, Tenerife.

chunkythebulldog

Ideal jewellers