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

Nobel Prize

I was referring more to the general commentary often repeated on other forums of Rolex staff being rude and snooty compared to Omega etc etc.

It seems the stock issue is real based on all the responses, obviously beyond the scope of a store attendant.

All I can say is my experience does not reflect that.

I actually offered buying a pair of watches to get a Daytona and the answer was “ the Daytona is distributed on a wait list basis. And I was gobig to get a Sea Dweller and a Yatchclub in addition to the Daytona.

They had the Daytona on hand, but would not break the list.

Have I just found the “honest” exception? I don’t know. It is what it is.

larryganz

Both my my local Rolex AD have a "list" for the white dial ceramic Daytona, but it mean nothing when they tell me last week that "customers who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars at their store get them first." I wanted to launch into a profanity ridden tirade and tell them where they can stick their little pretty watches, and then remembered that I want them to like me and find me one, but $100K is a lot of money. So, I have no idea where to even start with planning a bank robbery... Instead I bought some lottery tickets.

Kmart

Not all of us can afford vintage. Most vintage Rolex sports watches cost well in excess of their modern equivalents at this point. I would love to own a 5513 or 1675, but I just don't have >$10k in cash to plunk down on one.

Nobel Prize

I for one don't buy a watch because nobody has it.... Or because everybody has it, just because I like it and want to have it.

boltman

Seems a few Submariners and Explorers are starting to pop up. A couple came in at my local AD

larryganz

Both my my local Rolex AD have a "list" for the white dial ceramic Daytona, but it mean nothing when they tell me last week that "customers who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars at their store get them first." I wanted to launch into a profanity ridden tirade and tell them where they can stick their little pretty watches, and then remembered that I want them to like me and find me one, but $100K is a lot of money. So, I have no idea where to even start with planning a bank robbery... Instead I bought some lottery tickets.]

hahahahaha.. my Canada AD told me the same

larryganz

It's almost 2 years since I got on the Ben Bridge Jewelers Rolex AD in Denver list (in March 2016), and was told I was the first person to get on their list right after the white dial ceramic Daytona was announced.

I got worried and added myself to the other Denver Rolex AD's list about 8 weeks later. So, my friend who has bought several watches at the other AD, and got on their list the day that I got on the Ben Bridge list, well he got his 2-3 weeks ago. I kinda wish I'd gone to the other AD at the exact same time, and maybe I'd be next?

It sucks because the other AD can't tell me how many people are ahead of me, and I can't buy more watches from them to move up on their list or else I wont have the money to buy the Daytona when it comes in. I'm in the position where I'd have to use a credit card to snap it up, and then sell off 3-4 watches to pay it off, where normally I don't buy any watch until I have all of the money.

I just don't want to do a sell off now, because if I don't get the ceramic Daytona then I also don't have the ones I sold, and also somehow that money always gets spent on something else that comes up unexpectedly. (maybe sell black V-serial Rolex Exp II with 3186, SMPc, Tudor BBR on leather and steel, maybe an older Ti SMP chronograph unless my son begs me not to - although the Exp II is really the only one I'd be okay selling as the best bang for the buck.)

Starman71

I’m in Dubai, no stainless at the dealer in the airport. Less than helpful sales kids.

turbo_muc

Haha, I can imagine. I remember the watches being stacked together as if it was 50 dollar swatches. Not a luxury presentation

I even found the picture: