Rolex to cut production Oct 22

[HiBoost]

Here's a recent news story mentioning Rolex leaving some lights off at night to save energy. They cite Rolex declining to comment on further plans, which of course makes the above letter even more unlikely.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/rolex-si...30760.amp.html

[vh2k]

Originally Posted by Dhiren

Desperate move by even more desperate flippers or grey market dealers sitting on tons of unsold paid for inventory.

Obvious fake letter designed to scare people into thinking prices *may* go up -- when, in fact, secondary prices have been consistently dropping for seven consecutive months. Prices still falling. Smart collectors won't be fooled.

[spellmanski]

Feels like a grey dealer made this up...

[Chester01]

Likely fabricated by the gray market to keep inflation high. Sorry to be so cynical, but im sure we will see more as the economy continues to sink and the attempt to bolster the markets become more desprate

[garyk]

Par for the course world wide. Lying about anything has become a regular occurrence. Probably written by a politician, biggest liars ever…imo…

[The Stifmeister]

For those who haven’t seen it’s obviously fake, both my AD and the RSC near us confirmed this morning that it is a fugazi.

[DBCooper07]

Rolex drama is pointless. Blah blah blah

[neurotichamster8]

Greys are getting desperate to unload their stock lolol

[enjoythemusic]

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[norcalctr]

This would be a celebration moment for grey dealers.

[Doric]

Originally Posted by padi56

Well today common sense is sadly lacking by many today and many of the newer younger Rolex owners there physical world is what ever so called social media or the likes of YouTube dictates,as many have lost the use of there brains to think for themselves. And rely on the like of YouTube and the likes and believe every thing they read or see there,then repeat it like parrots around the net.

Padi - if you are going to question the intellect of younger Rolex owners, then it might wise to improve your English…..

There - as in ‘over there’
Their - as in ‘belonging to them’
They’re - abbreviation of ‘they are’

[RichardBartlett]

Originally Posted by Doric

Padi - if you are going to question the intellect of younger Rolex owners, then it might wise to improve your English…..

There - as in ‘over there’
Their - as in ‘belonging to them’
They’re - abbreviation of ‘they are’

Witch one should he have used?

[mic6]

My AD confirmed that they received this letter yesterday, so no it's not fake.

[Alpino]

Originally Posted by Breizh

We can also add the misspleling of "Meileures salutations"

Which should be "Meilleures salutations" preferably

[melhk]

Greys will do desperate things to keep the market afloat for a little longer...

[HiBoost]

Originally Posted by Bom

Found this on another site..... think it's a little iffy.....

Do you have a link for where this came from? Would be fun to try to trace it back to the origin.

Originally Posted by mic6

My AD confirmed that they received this letter yesterday, so no it's not fake.

My AD responded with "Lol... so funny (and fake)".

You can even see the halo around where they cut and pasted a signature image on top of this (enhanced here to show it)

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[Trailboss516]

Let's lock this thread, I don't see a need for it.

[GONZO2LR]

i have questions????

Everybody on here talks!
they know someone that knows someone
they talk about Rolex as if they know Uncle Rollo and they said this or that....
I heard from an AD that know this....bla bla bla....

But I/we/you/me/etc/etc. never hear anything from Rolex saying anything other that from their magazine or whatever

It's all hearsay.....

Most companies have a spokesperson/lawyer(s) or someone speak for their business.

I never hear Rolex say anything about anything...shortage, closing...bla bla bla....

Are family member's of Rolex banded for life if they ever say anything or are we going to go through our life not knowing anything of this great product ROLEX.

[waterking]

Don't know about the letter. Could not care less. But the situation is real.

[101031-28]

Originally Posted by TimeAZ

Fake, and laughably bad. Glad the "Federal council" (???) Is so conscientious. Next time I'm in Switzerland I'll be sure to set my calendar to the American format of October 17, 2022 rather than 17 October. Oh and I'm sure they would take a political angle talking about Russia invading Ukraine.

My thoughts, precisely.

[macrowatch]

Elbow grease, manual hand finish > electircity! Gotta return back to the old ways when the farmers/herders would work on watch parts through the winter and cart it over to Geneva when the mountain roads defrosted in the spring!

[MasonDixon]

The letter looks dodgy as hell, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Rolex cut production again now that the hysteria is slowing down.

[HMHM]

Will the grey dealer who wrote this piece of crap please put up their hand?
At least we can identify who the moron is and let him know his con job is as bad as some boob job that claims they are “all natural”

[Dhiren]

Originally Posted by HMHM

Will the grey dealer who wrote this piece of crap please put up their hand?
At least we can identify who the moron is and let him know his con job is as bad as some boob job that claims they are “all natural”

ROFL


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[Calatrava r]

Originally Posted by MasonDixon

The letter looks dodgy as hell, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Rolex cut production again now that the hysteria is slowing down.

I believe you are right. Rolex loves the current market dynamic. If the secondary market prices fall to par and new watches are sitting in cases unsold, I would expect supply cuts.

[Calatrava r]

Originally Posted by Doric

Padi - if you are going to question the intellect of younger Rolex owners, then it might wise to improve your English…..

There - as in ‘over there’
Their - as in ‘belonging to them’
They’re - abbreviation of ‘they are’

That should be "might be wise".

[WilsdorfNDavis]

What's sad is that people actually believe this...

How gullible can you people be?

[CedCraig]

I’ll bet this would be an immediate story on Hodinkee and similar legit websites if it were true.

[Vince M.]

Which over stocked grey dealer sent you this ?? LOL

[Sean90]

The letter is clearly a fake. But the situation mentioned is plausible. Swiss compagnies have been asked to prepare emergency plans to reduce energy consumption if required. (10% less, 20% less, ect...)
So production slow down may occur.
Fortunately, Rolex factories are not in the mountains where winter is very harsh. Not the same for AP, JLC, Zenith, Cartier ...
Hope winter is not coming to fast this year.