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Originally Posted by Lordofrolex
The boutique will no longer sell watches to grey dealers they are company owned stores and would not want to be undercut by great dealers. Only AD sell to grey dealers to get rid of inventory.
The way grey dealers got inventory is because to be a watch AD from a particular brand. You have to order a minimum amount of watches from the company a year. Theres no way the companies can offload that many watches so they sell to grey dealers at almost cost to get those watches off the books.
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there are a few examples ive seen where grey market watches have APSC clearwater AD stamps on them. There was an elephant a few weeks ago that went from APSC to reseller to end user. It was BNIB, not a used watch from what i remember.
Secondary market will remain but it will help. I support the brand control of inventory as grey watches and discounts hurt value retention.