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4 May 2024, 09:48 AM | #1 |
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Craziest piece offered....
Interested to find out the off catalog type unique watches members here have been offered...here is my entry....politely declined
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4 May 2024, 10:00 AM | #2 |
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you can't get a VTNR but you're being offered rainbow daytonas?
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4 May 2024, 10:00 AM | #3 |
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I would be very surprised if this watch is offered to a casual customer. So I can only assume OP is a legit VVVIP of that particular AD.
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4 May 2024, 10:14 AM | #4 |
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OP couldn’t get a skydweller but is offered a rainbow that sells for double MSRP? Sounds like a troll post
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An unusual offer?
Are you Royalty?
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4 May 2024, 11:20 AM | #8 |
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My understanding is "off catalog" pieces are only offered to VIPs.
That's a 150-200+k msrp piece that gets 2-3x msrp in the open mkt. Why not pick up, hold for a year, and then trade for all the hard to get pieces (panda, Pepsi, sprite, ...)? Per my AD if you hold for a year it's not "flipping." |
4 May 2024, 11:22 AM | #9 |
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Anyone being offered that must have a high 6 fig spend history
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4 May 2024, 11:28 AM | #10 |
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I just threw up a little.
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4 May 2024, 11:33 AM | #11 |
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Troubling questions.
Maybe it's my misunderstanding. My AD explained to me why a friend couldn't get a Rainbow. He is a high net worth individual - the watch can't be offered, but an offer to order one can be extended by an AD. Maybe that's what the OP meant. Or, maybe that was a preowned model that his AD had. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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4 May 2024, 11:48 AM | #12 |
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4 May 2024, 12:12 PM | #13 |
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They are discontinued? How can you have 9ne offered? NOS?
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4 May 2024, 12:18 PM | #14 |
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I call bs. That’s an instant buy for double the money. But no one gets offered a rainbow Daytona. Pretty sure Rolex HQ has to approve it.
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so confused by these posts - one of the times (maybe the only time) I called BS on something like this, I was wrong
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4 May 2024, 02:54 PM | #16 |
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Some answers
Wow interesting set of replies....lol
Where to begin....if you look at my previous posts you will see that I have relationships with multiple ADs over 3 countries....let say in one of these countries where Business practices can be questionable at times (which is in fact my country of origin,) the AD gets these one off pieces on very very rare occasions and will 'set his price' and offer it a number of his VIP clients....I would say my personal relationship with the AD whom i am very close with is more of a reason I am added in such a client offering list more than my spend....truth is this is well above my budget for a watch as the price I was quoted was more of a house range as far as I'm concerned...also I am not a flipper so I wouldn't buy it to simply make a profit as I wear my watches.... As for not obtaining a Sprite or celebration from this dealer and hopefully soon a blue or green steel Skydweller....thats just a matter of patience which sadly at times I'm lacking, he does not get the kind of voluminous stock other countries may get...and at the end of the day I'm not his only close/VIP client but to be fair in '24 he has already blessed me with a Pepsi, Batgirl, Batman (Dad) and a mk2 LV so can't really complain.... And to set the record straight I was offered a VTNR but on oyster not jubilee |
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So you’re offered a Rainbow at market price like the rest of us?
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Shiiiitttt....
Here I was thinking I was lucky to get a few chocolates when I bought my 124060. (wink wink) |
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To be honest not sure what I was offered was 'market' price...have no interest in the piece (even if I had the funds would not purchase as this is so far off my taste range) and as such quickly declined and thanked for being offered...I have learned that asking any type of sensitive questions on such pieces (is this retail/are you charging a premium/who else is interested etc) just ends up souring a relationship better to say Thank you but no thanks and move swiftly on..... |
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Well I was offered a red text 1680 this week. The edges on the case were too far gone so I passed.
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4 May 2024, 04:32 PM | #21 |
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oh yeah??! well...well last time I was at my AD, I had to pee.....and they let me use their restroom!
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Glad you still have your humour after the hard time you’ve been given here
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Pepsi with Rolex
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It's all good...
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Look, I understand that many people on this forum are constrained logistically/geographically to the mercy of a few ADs in their area so trying to understand how someone can be offered a Rainbow Daytona (perhaps retail perhaps not) before a Sprite or Celebration can be hard to fathom...I get it... Truth is I can get on a plane, fly 2 and half hours and visit 3 ADs in different countries where I speak the local languages and thus have access to their specific markets....each country has its own unique selling practices and while many are similar there are of course differences to the point where one off pieces like this are made available to semi regular folks like myself before even a Blue skydweller or celebration thats just the nature of their specific market....bottom line is even with all these perceived advantages I still need to go gray from time to time....so good luck to all of us |
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In June 2020 had these offered to me a few months apart. I was waiting for a BLRO. I was not in the market to drop this much coin on a DD. Not sure I could get these types of pieces offered to me again, I did eventually get my BLRO without buying a PM piece.
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