London Rolex

forumdedum

Does anyone know if you can buy a new Rolex Submariner in a London AD without being on a waiting list, living there etc? Thank you

C0N0R

Absolutely not. And especially not if you mean a stainless steel model.

forumdedum

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120982080#Comment_120982080

Thanks for that. Yes a Sub

Fitz II

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120982110#Comment_120982110

There is nothing to stop you getting a watch anywhere you want, and the AD will not care. However if you get on in the UK you could get stung for duty on bringing it in. The next problem is getting them to give you a submariner. Google on this and you will see that these watches are in high demand and usually only given to preferred customers. How to become a preferred customer?

• Let the pointy shoe salesman ride your wife.
• Buy a bunch of shitters off them and loose your shirt on them.
• Bring them coffee and donuts every day for a year.
• Suck them off yourself to spare the wife the trauma.
• Get amazingly lucky.

With all options you get to take what should be a nice purchase and turn it into a shameful loss of your dignity.

Or.....just buy one on the secondary market and spend a couple grand more for the privilege of saving your dignity and actually saving money. I recommend iChrono.ie

forumdedum

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120982183#Comment_120982183

Dear Fitz,

Thank you very much for your reply to my post in relation to the Rolex Submariner. I have never been stopped at an airport upon return but there is a first time for everything and perhaps some beads of sweat visible on my forehead combined with a temporary eye twitch could trigger the instinct of a customs officer. I am indeed aware that Submariners are in high demand. I guess I hoped they had some in stock in London.

Your advice on how to become a preferred customer is most enlightening. I am most impressed that you know the style of shoe the salesman will be wearing. In relation to the salesman's wish to have sexual intercourse with my wife do you think he will say this or will he communicate it in the form of a 'nudge nudge wink wink' gesture in a Monty Pythonesque manner? Just so I know.

I do not wish to spend a lot of money on jewellery and other watches as I'm not even certain I'm even in the financial state to buy the Rolex in the first instance.

I would not be able to bring coffee and donuts for a year as I will only be in London for 4 days. However, I am prepared to place an order that will be delivered to them daily while I'm back home in Ireland.

I have never performed fellatio so I would be worried about the act being good enough to satisfy the salesman. In fact the poor quality could have the opposite effect? Also, I know my heart would not be in it.

So, luck it will have to be.

Your chrono.ie suggested has not gone unnoticed.

With every good wish,

Forumdedum

Cienciano

But if you don't go to your local AD you won't "get the call"

Check out reddit for the horror stories. Last week I read a guy who was waiting 2 years after putting his name down for a black dial oyster perpetual, and in that time he had to buy 2 tudors. And he insisted he "enjoyed the process"

forumdedum

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120983629#Comment_120983629

I did go to my AD. I must look up Reddit. Tudors are lovely in fairness. In fact there are lots of fabulous looking watches out there

Fitz II

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120983225#Comment_120983225

"I do not wish to spend a lot of money on jewellery and other watches as I'm not even certain I'm even in the financial state to buy the Rolex in the first instance."

This above all else will limit your ability to have one allotted to you unless a saleperson take a big shine to you. As for the rest it good to set boundaries 😁 In general the person selling the watch on the secondary market is the one with more flexible boundaries. The submariner is a excellent watch, and a credit to any owner, so if thats the one you want try not be swayed to buy other options, man maths can quickly fill a watch box.

Birneybau

They'd be basically handing over pure profit in your favour

forumdedum

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120987400#Comment_120987400

They would if I sold it. I wouldn't sell it. Though how are they to know that

forumdedum

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120984519#Comment_120984519

Yes I need to borrow a Ferrari and park it outside the AD. Not easy. Boundaries lol. Your 1 word comment on my post is genius - I salute you.

Agree, much wise just to buy a Submariner and a Submariner only.

Fitz II

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120988212#Comment_120988212

Said every Rolex buyer ever. 🤣 I have never bought a watch I intended to sell, but here I am so many watches bought and sold. Generally ADs are not interested in what other things you have outside of money spent with them, they just want to see you have a good spend history with them on high profit items and less desirable watches and then by their divine grace they may release a watch to you are RRP. You will have lost more money on the purchases than any possible grey market mark up on the Rolex. If you need a engagement or wedding ring it often a good time as that a spend you need to make anyway.

Generally what happens is you go in. Chat to the sale person,, give them some tale of what you want and why, maybe get a glass of cheap prosecco. They say they will put you down on a list, you leave happy and hopeful and then 5 years later you're a cynical cranky bollox on the internet like me.

Brief_Lives

they will probably have them for sale at the airport.

mik_da_man

No Subs in Heathrow when I went through last month or earlier in the year.

galvo_clare

Would you think of trying a dealer in Switzerland? It was back in 2007 so things may have changed but I largely did the deal over email with a small dealer in Interlaken.

I arrived, he showed me several Daytonas and I picked the one I wanted. Got an extra bit of discount and I saved serious money.

No issues bringing it in on my wrist.

Fitz II

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121018915#Comment_121018915

2007 was a different time, you were a lucky man to make that decision then. 4-5 year wait on a daytona these days.

scwazrh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121019683#Comment_121019683

As we both know a 4-5 year wait is the same as youre never getting it .

I was told by the AD the pepsi is getting more and more scarce .Reckons theres problems with the red ceramic and the failure rate is too high for the watch's price point . I wasnt asking for one so assume it was a genuine comment .

Fitz II

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121019765#Comment_121019765

Having said that, you can have a Daytona tomorrow from weirs if you buy 2 or 3 100k Patek dress watches and the hope diamond for the wife. Ah those AD games, such fun.

scwazrh

TBF in my experience the ad games in weirs are not like the horror stories you hear . I put my name down and followed up with a couple of emails and then got the watch.I’ve bought 5 watches from them and two are Rolex and I certainly haven’t played any of the so called AD games .

893bet

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121023130#Comment_121023130

Now maybe I am far off the mark but you are playing it….

1) If all Rolex models you like were available would you still have bought the other 3 watches (tudors I assume?), possibily not I suspect.

2) They gave you a sub and that blue OP? Now those watches are not scarce like Daytona but equally you can’t walk in and buy. Do you really think they would have given them to you if you hadn’t being buying the few other bits and gotten to know the sales person etc ?

Fitz II

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121023130#Comment_121023130

If your buying what you want when you want it...then you not playing games. If you buying what you can get when you can get it...you are, because they are calling the shots. In this day and age of a soft market where a black sub date is 10,450 retail and on the secondary a few year old one is 10.5k there is no point at all.

banie01

I posted the below over on the chit chat thread, but it is just as germane to the conversation here.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121027478#Comment_121027478

scwazrh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121027211#Comment_121027211

1) If all Rolex models you like were available would you still have bought the other 3 watches (tudors I assume?), possibily not I suspect.

Panerai before I asked to be on a list for a sub , santos and snowflake after that .So yeah I would of bought them anyway but I was very aware that the 5% discount on the last two was still making the watches cost more than grey market.Overall though the couple of Rolex at rrp balance out any extra I paid on the other two and benefit of knowing they are 100% genuine.

2)Do you really think they would have given them to you if you hadn’t being buying the few other bits and gotten to know the sales person etc ?

All different sales people so that’s not it but without purchase history no of course they wouldn’t have sold me what I want .But thats the same in all business , even In my own business we won’t provide certain services or goods to new customers but will to existing customers provided their previous spend is high enough.It’s a fairly standard business model.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121027443#Comment_121027443

Certainly wouldnt buy stuff for the sake of building a purchase history.

Point of my post was that the tales of having to buy them gifts or call in each week or remember the sales guys birthday or other such games hasn’t been my experience with weirs.

CantGetNoSleep

There are a few posts recently in the Rolex sub on Reddit that claim to be getting a Submariner / GMT in a few days without any relationship or purchase history. Wondering are things changing?

Fitz II

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121029136#Comment_121029136

Its always happened but remember if there are a million people waiting for a sub 3 of them will post online about waiting. If 3 of them get one without a wait all 3 post online. The "I got the call" social media post is mandatory, annoying and braggadocios in equal measure..

FocusST

Can anyone recommend a Rolex dealer on Chrono 24 or similar? Been watching the 126710BLRO for about a year now and the price doesn't seem like it's going to budge anytime soon so looking at going grey market.

forumdedum

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121017248#Comment_121017248

No Rolex at London Stansted unless I missed it

unkel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121041807#Comment_121041807

C24 has a "guarantee" in the form of escrow payments. You receive the watch, you can take it to your local AD or indy watch specialist, they can check the watch over, make sure everything is ok, and only then do you need to inform C24 that all is in order, which will prompt them to release your money to the seller

So pretty safe, even if you buy from a private seller on C24

forumdedum

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121061739#Comment_121061739

Wisdom

notuslimited

I travel a lot to Frankfurt airport. Their shop there has no watches for sale since I started to enquire about 2 years ago. They are just for show.

unkel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121098065#Comment_121098065

That's the same with almost all Rolex ADs worldwide. Only exception I have personally spotted was Schiphol airport, they have actual watches that you can try on too. But you can't buy them. Probably unless you're an oil sheikh and you spend a fortune on crap first 😂