Yellow Gold Le Mans Discontinued

[ryanleewood]

Just picked up my YG Le Mans being held since November and my Rolex host informed me they have been DC’d prior to W&W25. Anyone else hear the same?

[codecow]

Originally Posted by ryanleewood

Just picked up my YG Le Mans being held since November and my Rolex host informed me they have been DC’d prior to W&W25. Anyone else hear the same?

I have heard it rumored but not confirmed.

I hope it is discontinued so that it can remain a highly aspirational piece for people.

[jb335]

We're months away from W&W so no one knows, including ADs (most likely).

People have been speculating the YG Le Mans will be a one year run because the WG Le Mans was a one year run. They could be right, who knows...

I also heard the Pepsi is being discontinued...for about 3 years running now....

[Bazil]

lets see it ?

[omar-rye]

Is the WG even discontinued?

[Eric-London]

Originally Posted by omar-rye

Is the WG even discontinued?

Yes.

[MRBolton]

Why was your watch held that long?

[dnd2984]

Originally Posted by MRBolton

Why was your watch held that long?

Most good ADs do this. My Daytona was held for over a month.

[MRBolton]

Originally Posted by dnd2984

Most good ADs do this. My Daytona was held for over a month.

Held on exhibition or just held generally?

[Maleg]

Originally Posted by dnd2984

Most good ADs do this. My Daytona was held for over a month.

Why would holding a watch make the AD good? I think a good AD promptly delivers on orders. What does holding a watch do for the customer?

[dnd2984]

Originally Posted by MRBolton

Held on exhibition or just held generally?

No mine was new not on display held in safe. I was traveling for work and holiday.

Originally Posted by Maleg

Why would holding a watch make the AD good? I think a good AD promptly delivers on orders. What does holding a watch do for the customer?

They could have easily sold to next guy in line. AD told me it came in, I said I was away for over a month and she held it. They don't get many of these and they could have easily said no we can't wait.

[codecow]

Originally Posted by Maleg

Why would holding a watch make the AD good? I think a good AD promptly delivers on orders. What does holding a watch do for the customer?

They can literally sell a hot piece to anyone with the money to buy it. It’s like giving the buyer free money.

So if instead you’re out of town for a while and they hold it for you during that time it’s something they don’t have to do.

[MRBolton]

Originally Posted by codecow

They can literally sell a hot piece to anyone with the money to buy it. It’s like giving the buyer free money.

So if instead you’re out of town for a while and they hold it for you during that time it’s something they don’t have to do.

Oh, I thought you meant a strategy to deter flippers, which I've read about on here, where the AD will hold the card for a month or I've even seen a year.

[MRBolton]

Originally Posted by codecow

I have heard it rumored but not confirmed.

I hope it is discontinued so that it can remain a highly aspirational piece for people.

Why do you want to gatekeep it?

[codecow]

Originally Posted by MRBolton

Why do you want to gatekeep it?

Because I own one and prefer that the secondary value remains high.

[Harry-57]

Originally Posted by Maleg

Why would holding a watch make the AD good? I think a good AD promptly delivers on orders. What does holding a watch do for the customer?

It allows customers to pick it up when convenient. My AD has customers who do not live locally all year round, my wife and I included. When I got my TT Sky Dweller they were holding a blue one for a customer who would not be back in the UK for 3 months. This is the mark of a good AD, a business who looks after its customers, as opposed to telling someone to get there in 24 hours or lose it.

[SLWoodster]

Rolex itself gatekeeps.

So just continuing on the company policy.

Originally Posted by MRBolton

Why do you want to gatekeep it?

[Oyster Al]

WG discontinued. YG not yet but soon. Inside corporate source.

[drrd]

Originally Posted by codecow

I have heard it rumored but not confirmed.

I hope it is discontinued so that it can remain a highly aspirational piece for people.

I thought you were encouraging everyone to get one in your incoming thread?

[ryanleewood]

Originally Posted by Bazil

lets see it ?

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0b4D...qo6RpA3er_KMJA

[ryanleewood]

And to answer the couple questions as to why it was held so long I was busy traveling over the holidays so just now had the time to go pick it up.

[Bazil]

Stunning … ^^ … such a lovely watch …

[GB-man]

Bring on the RG then Pt

[jb335]

Originally Posted by omar-rye

Is the WG even discontinued?

I think it's fair to ask that but I believe it's been establshed to be discontinued (WG) at this point. Ben Clymer himself said a Rolex executive told him it was disco'd at last year's W&W. That's a credible enough source for me and couple that with the fact we haven't seen any new incoming claims of a WG version while we do see YG incomings.

[brandrea]

Nice watch

[codecow]

Originally Posted by drrd

I thought you were encouraging everyone to get one in your incoming thread?

I did but it was a joke, as are most of my posts, I’m having a laugh.

[codecow]

Originally Posted by GB-man

Bring on the RG then Pt

This.

[drrd]

Originally Posted by codecow

I did but it was a joke, as are most of my posts, I’m having a laugh.

Me too

[ryanleewood]

Originally Posted by GB-man

Bring on the RG then Pt

It would be curious to see this. The yellow gold makes sense considering the legacy of the Paul Newman/JPS 626x’s.

I’ve always been a bigger fan of RG (love my RG GMT) but YG on this piece is quite stunning.

Would be wild to see RG Daytona with a proper panda dial regardless though.

[Calatrava r]

Originally Posted by Maleg

Why would holding a watch make the AD good? I think a good AD promptly delivers on orders. What does holding a watch do for the customer?

Many times, a new watch comes in and the AD needs to put it in the Exhibition case until another similar watch can replace it. They are required to have a representative sampling of the line on the display at any given time, so this full gold model may have been needed until another all-gold model came in. I have asked ADs if I could buy an exhibition watch at some point and have been told the watch is already committed to a customer when it can be rotated out.