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Originally Posted by daOnlyBG
If you're asking me what I wish to buy, the answer is easy: I really like the 5196P, despite (what I feel are) a couple shortcomings- and I also really like the 5212A Weekly Calendar. If I were buy the former through an authorized retailer, I would hope that the dealer would look out for me once a 5212A comes along. Current practices at the ADs local to me suggest that they might not.
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I don't think either are hard to get? Just go in and ask for them. For those watches and values I wouldn't bother sucking up to anyone, if the AD isn't playing then I'd happily buy grey if I wanted them.
I kept asking my AD for a 5196g but he didn't come through, I'd previously bought the J from him and wanted a white gold one as well, so in the end I bought one from a grey dealer with a $5k discount. The SA asked where I got it when he saw it and I told him honestly that if he won't sell me what I want then I'll go somewhere where they will. He tried a lot harder after that.
I'm old fashioned so I'm not too worried about trust or building a loving relationship with a bloke that owns a shop, I just want a mutual exchange of respect and value where he gives me a watch and I give him some money.
This business of nuzzling up to the ear of an assistant in a shop and telling him how wonderful he is and how in love with Patek you are just to buy a watch is not really my cup of tea. Someone should start an App, perhaps WatchTinder
