Patek Updates

[Moloch]

Originally Posted by lapince

Whatever the brand you will always have pieces on the grey market, only difference with Patek is that some pieces sell for more on grey market than through AD, but same for the ceramic Daytona, the day when it won't be the case will be when your Patek will cost much less on grey market than at retail, sorry but I'm happy to have very hard to get pieces which cost more then what I paid for them, so yeah you need to have connections, prior purchases or luck to get some pieces, if it wasn't the case I would probably have 1-2 PP and not 3 sure and maybe a fourth if I can get a 5131, I am on a good spot for a 5711, but prior to that I bought a 5712 and 5167R, you have to pay to play, and I don't want to buy watches which loose 40-60% of retail once I go out of the AD, so I'm quite happy with the present system even if it's maybe not super fair for some...

Is not that I can't get any pieces I want. Is that there are far more for sale in new condition in the gray market than legitimate dealers. Who are the ADs dumping them straight to the gray market when customers on the waiting lists of other dealers.

What Patek could do is to create a system to connect ADs together so that they can trade references they can't move in their market but might be more in demand in others. Or launch a sting operation to expose ADs who dumps them to the gray market and remove them as a AD.