There are no lists

[VictorGMT]

So, this is anecdotal.

A great friend is considered a "whale" at our AD. I advise him on his retail businesses.

A few weeks ago, I realized we had missed a fifteen year anniversary of a key employee.

I talked to the employee about the anniversary, and he said his dream was a Rolex GMT.

Texted my friend "You need to get a GMT for ____". He texted AD. They said "Stop by".

A day later, he sent me photos from the AD. "Would he like a Batman or Bruce Wayne?" with both watches in the photo.

He left with Batman a few minutes later.

I am 100% certain that if I had stopped by a day before, I could have "gotten on the list" and perhaps advanced on the list with some 90% markup diamond jewelry.

One person's experience and opinion.

[Zach69SS]

How does that song go, that’s just the way it is, somethings will never change.

The lists are all BS, it depends on your spend history and relationship. Some of us get lucky and score on the first visit or very soon after. Sometimes? Very clever marketing tactics, The lists. The AD chooses who they want to sell to period. I’m sure that AD has more than few customers waiting on either of those pieces, on the so called list.

Those days are over for most pieces, they are a few models that will always hard to get
The SS Daytona or the GMT BLRO and some others new releases etc….

So I believe it, for sure. We all have to play the game until we are chosen.

Cheers,

[ArtNouveau]

I believe my AD has lists. Chronological? No, but if you are told “you are on the list” you will get one. They are a high volume Rolex only store and pretty much know how many of each model they will get each year so the lists are geared towards that, they will never tell anyone five years or the like.
There are six SA’s that have to share what comes in and of course always a few VIPPs that get offered new releases first. My longest wait was 9 months for a 116500, 7 months for a BLRO. Lots of variation in the way dealers are run.

[No SUBctitute]

Originally Posted by ArtNouveau

I believe my AD has lists. Chronological? No, but if you are told “you are on the list” you will get one. They are a high volume Rolex only store and pretty much know how many of each model they will get each year so the lists are geared towards that, they will never tell anyone five years or the like.
There are six SA’s that have to share what comes in and of course always a few VIPPs that get offered new releases first. My longest wait was 9 months for a 116500, 7 months for a BLRO. Lots of variation in the way dealers are run.

You realize that 9 months for a steel Daytona and 7 months for a Pepsi is not normal, right?

[RichardBartlett]

We have only 1 dealer on the island. The other lost their AD status last year. They have the whole of the Canaries and touristy parts of southern Spain too.

So living on a year round tourist island we have rich locals, politicians, local and international celebs with houses here and a huge amount of rich tourists looking to move money.
Everything is still 'display only' and they never have anything on the ultra desirable list in the window ever, I guess they don't need to.

the only time I was actually offered a watch (a TT YMll) was around covid time when there was zero business happening . Before and since nada

[Divingdeep87]

There is a list and then again there is not a list. I'm not on a list, I say what I want and they get it to me as fast a possible and they can always tell me when. The only waiting time there is from Rolex/next shipment. They're a small AD so they don't get that many watches.

[Krash]

Yes and no. I think there are 3 tiers.

1) some folks can get any watch they want at anytime they want. Rarefied air. These folks are the elite.

2) there are lists for folks like myself. I can get any watch I want but it takes a little time. The exception might be a white Daytona, and there could be tiers within this tier.

3) there is no list for the average Joe. They’re not getting a GMT BLNR and probably not even a Submariner either.


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