Rolex Purchase.

I’d advise calling in to your nearest authorised dealer to see what you’d like to buy and gauge the availability.

Excellent decision. Have you decided what model you’d like to buy? That will help to figure out your best route to purchase as some models are much trickier to get new than others.

That is a very healthy budget, not much you wont get with that money.

In my humble opinion, you cannot go wrong with a sub. Nice ceramic bezel one. BBlack is the classic, but you might push to a hulk or a new green bezel one. GMT is also an option, certainly a black one and likely a Batman or Batgirl. No date subs are the cheapest and a very classic look. You would also get a very tasty Datejust one with the fancy dial but its far more dressy than the sub.

“After market” as a word is one I associate with Franken/fake Rolex personally.

I would say a new customer looking for a submariner from weirs for a big birthday would get the watch very quickly but make sure to tell them why you want it.No harm mentioning the other half will want one next as well.

Black sub date or Datejust fluted bezel and dial to your preference would be my suggestion.

I would start by… not buying a Rolex..🤪

2nd'd there is a world of difference between buying a grey market watch from a dealer and an "after market" watch.

The latter is IMO always indicative of modification or non OEM work.

I've never been one to be interested in a Rolex, but is this whole plámásing jewellers thing before you can buy one actually real?

Are jewellers really short on friends and need to use their watch leverage to not feel lonely?

Sorry I always just found this such a bizarre type of comment, particularly as it relates to people looking to spend a large chunk of change on a luxury item. Having to prove you 'deserve' to be sold one is fairly ridiculous. Sounds like a massive con.

It’s not just watches, it’s ladies handbags, it’s exotic cars, as said it’s supply and demand.

So are they trying to make sure they're selling to people who won't flip immediately or are they trying to use the demand to make extra money by selling people things they don't want to 'let' them but a Rolex?

A bit of both.

What happens to the product after shouldn't really matter.

Agree should be nothing to do with them once they are paid and allocate on a genuine 1st person interest gets 1st watch and so on.

Erring more towards ADs just taking advantage of people due to the demand.

100% but most businesses do the same , Irish Hotels are worse.

Thankfully I haven’t first hand experience of that side, but I would imagine Hermes etc are very facilitating of allowing a customer to build up plenty of previous purchase history prior to allocating a Birken etc.

Trying to make people buy shite they can’t sell otherwise for its RRP.

And they don’t want quick public flips as it makes them look bad in the eyes of Rolex.

I dont think s/s subs are freely available anywhere, or not at retail anyway.

Heathrow Terminal 5 Rolex. 3 SS skydwellers in stock. GmT everose gold available if you give them notice of 48 hours.

Watches of Switzerland next door has limited stock across most of the brands, no white Speedmasters 😜 surprisingly enough.

I'm normally in terminal 2, the store was a little bit busier at the time so did not ask prices, will next time.

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You're more likely to have luck with your local dealer than a dealer foreign to you. Having said that, if your local dealer is something the likes of Amsterdam, forget it.

What are you saying ???

Going on lists to be allowed hand over your money.....

I like nice things as much as the next person - but on this stuff I think I'll do a Groucho Marx: I wouldn't want to be in any club that would have me as a member......

art on your wrist? Hahahaha a Rolex.

Either way poster is a bot or spam account.