Q: Patek ADs - how often do they receive shipments?

[Roger Lococco]

I apologize if this topic has been routinely covered in the past. I'm interested in understanding (directionally) how often a relatively major Patek AD in the United States will receive a Patek shipment ... directionally, how many Pateks per shipment ... and roughly how many of the high demand sports versions they will receive in a year.

I fully realize the answer to this is 'it depends'. Just looking for some general insights though.

[Divingdeep87]

My AD do this funny thing sometimes where you get to open the shipment. The last I opened there was 10 watches in the box and there was 2 “hot” watches. They get a shipment once a week mostly.

It’s a small AD - and they just build a stand alone store witch should get them more watches.

[EazyE]

It depends.

Jk, if you search this forum, you’ll likely conclude:
— ADs receive 1 or 2 shipments per month
— they receive 1-3 of each aquanaut and nautilus variation
— Patek seems to send watches out in batches. Meaning you’ll see several incomings for the same reference close together.

The actual data is “proprietary” which feels silly to me because patek sales associate must be a high turnover job. We should have some data from former SAs but I haven’t seen it ��