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#121 |
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: US
Watch: 116500; 116610LV
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Thanks for the update and congrats on your lates acquisition! Wear it in good health!
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#122 |
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Real Name: J.R.
Location: Texas
Posts: 793
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Congrats, brother! Hope you’ll cherish it forever.
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#123 |
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: USA
Posts: 9,049
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Now three dealers will call you for the 116500
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#124 |
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Join Date: Jan 2020
Real Name: Andrew
Location: USA
Watch: Too many
Posts: 2,396
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Congrats! This is a real life example of the definition of YOLO “you only live once.” You can’t take the money that you make now with you so why not add the watch to your collection now rather than later. Buy the watch that you want when you want it and enjoy & wear it in good health
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#125 |
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Join Date: Feb 2023
Location: Us
Posts: 246
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Congrats! While I’m new to the site, a great read!
I know it was worth the effort! |
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#126 |
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: NWA, USA
Watch: BLRO/Daytona/OP41s
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Congrats, I’m happy for you. It’s worth noting too that the MSRP climbed from $12400 when you started your quest to $15100 for the new release. Rolex prices have always outpaced inflation, even this past year’s numbers.
I am content with my black dial 116500 acquired in November 2019 after a 9 month wait. Not enough difference for me to seek another. Enjoy. |
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#127 | |
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: USA
Watch: Daytona
Posts: 6,069
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#128 |
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Dubai
Posts: 1,439
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Congrats
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#129 |
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Join Date: Mar 2023
Location: Buffalo NY
Posts: 20
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Sounds like a smart conclusion. Well done.
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#130 |
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: T for Texas
Watch: 116500LN
Posts: 314
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Congrats!
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#131 |
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Uranus
Watch: 116500LN
Posts: 4,768
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Enjoy
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#132 |
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Join Date: Jul 2022
Location: Texas
Posts: 52
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Congratulations
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#133 |
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Join Date: Feb 2022
Real Name: Steve
Location: Nevada
Watch: JC 126660
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Congrats OP! Sorry you had to party market pricing but it sounds like you’ll truly love it so who cares about paying a premium? Can’t take it with you. Cheers and wear it in the best of health!
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#134 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Bay Area, CA
Watch: 116234
Posts: 113
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#135 |
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: United States
Posts: 92
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Interesting read.. Good luck.
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#136 |
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Real Name: Cau
Location: Georgia
Watch: 116500
Posts: 759
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congrats, OP!
my story was similar to yours: in 2018, i got a sub and got on "the list" for a white daytona. years later, my AD lost their AD status in Auburn, AL. I should have just paid the 19K for a white one in 2018. I bought in March 2022 in peak mania from David. I've worn my daytona nearly every day since. my only regret is not buying it sooner!
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#137 |
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: North Carolina
Watch: Rolex/Others
Posts: 46,630
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Congratulations.
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#138 |
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: USA
Posts: 9,049
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I waited 13 years for a Daytona 116500 (originally asking for 116520), but it did finally come true.
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#139 |
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Real Name: AJ
Location: USA
Watch: Swiss
Posts: 5,224
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Sincere Congratulations!. You made the right choice.
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#140 |
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Join Date: May 2022
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 58
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Congratulations!
I do have one question for you.... Was it worth the wait? Now that you have one in your hands, is it living up to the idea you had in your head for the last five years? I hope it is. |
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#141 |
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Midlands, UK
Posts: 4,884
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Congrats! Now just watch one of those AD's contact you with a surprise incoming!
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#142 |
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: USA
Watch: 5 digit models
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#143 |
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Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: FL
Watch: ♛ & ✠
Posts: 943
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my SA told me last year they delivered a Black Daytona to a customer after a nearly 7 year wait. i believe her, but that's a long wait!
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#144 |
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Real Name: Niki
Location: UK
Watch: Too many
Posts: 771
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Great to scan through this thread earlier today and to follow your journey OP. So please that you’ve finally got the watch you’ve been after.
Here’s my journey which started with a request for a Daytona made in 2016/17. First purchase from the AD followed in May 2017 (a birth month/year BLNR celebrating my youngest son’s birth). Bought 2 more watches in 2021 (DJ 36 and Explorer 36). Asked seriously about a Daytona for my 40th in 2022 and told spend history wasn’t enough. Bought a Yacht Master 37 rose gold on oysterflex in Nov ‘22 for a family member and then got a call out of the blue offering me a Daytona earlier this year. I think I sent an email asking if it would be an impossibility to score a Daytona before I turned 41 towards the end of 2022. For what it’s worth my interest was registered for a white dial all along, but I got offered a black which I’m still super enjoying. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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#145 | |
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1. While I never tried on the 116500, I'm familiar w/ the 116520 (essentially the same watch w/ a diff bezel and dial) and the 16520. Additionally, I know the clasp from other models. Thus, I had a solid idea about fit and size on the wrist. The 116500 that's now in my collection is exactly what was in my head since 2018. ![]() ![]() 2. The time and money wasted while waiting 5 years is what's still bothering me; I'll get over it (a lesson learnt). Like most people, I dislike wasting money, time, and opportunity costs. So essentially, the opportunity cost (risk / reward) of waiting to pay MSRP is the key disappointment. If I bought the watch in 2018, the leftover money saved would have been allocated to something else / another hobby item (maybe a mid-grade 1951 Bowman Willie Mays; it was far less expensive in 2018 than current prices which happen to be currently declining). Plus, I could have been wearing the 116500 for the last 4-5 years wearing admiring the Mays :) |
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#146 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: USA
Watch: 5 digit models
Posts: 1,515
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A monthly journal of trying to get a Daytona 116500
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Very similar story. Nearly identical w/o AD losing their status. My ADs had other issues mainly Rolex applying pressure to conduct biz “the Rolex Way”. They made demands to at least these ADs. Then again, Rolex probably would have pulled their AD status of they didn’t comply w/ the demands. I’m happy you ended up buying the watch. Did you buy it outright or partial trade? I could have made a trade for a 2020 dated 116500 (ironically w/ the same business I ended up buying it from) in Jan. 2022). They wanted $45K in trade but were offering me really good trade-in values for my watches. I just didn’t want to part w/ those particular models from my collection. |
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#147 |
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Real Name: The Mystro ;)
Location: Central Pa.
Posts: 15,244
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You have earned it.
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#148 | |
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Real Name: Cau
Location: Georgia
Watch: 116500
Posts: 759
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i can't express enough how much i love the daytona. it's a blessing and a curse; blessing because when i think i want a watch, i can now honestly ask myself "will i ever actually wear that over my daytona?" the answer, so far, has always been no. and, a curse becauseare you really a watch collector if you just wear one watch, all the time? ha!
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#149 | |
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Join Date: Jan 2022
Location: Asia
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#150 |
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Join Date: Mar 2020
Location: New York
Posts: 149
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Congrats!
For the folks who are on the “list” why not go grey while you’re waiting and if it ever comes in, then you can sell the other. Understand some folks dont have 30k to spend for one, but for the ones who do and REALLY want it. |
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