The Adidas guy has significant purchase history, you don't.

That's why he can get the Rolex, you can't.

I have a friend, using his family's account, recently got his Sub after just 1 month. Now he's waiting for a Batman, he was told the waiting time is ~6months. He can wear flip flops and beach shorts and pop in for a glass of champagne when he's thirsty.

Clothes only matter when you're a new customer, and may I add what you have on your wrist matters much more than your clothes.

Enjoy the new Longines and let us know when your AirKing has arrived!

You like you buy.

PAM is quite cheap if you buy used, but even new ones you can get decent discount from AD.

Panerai has the iconic and instantly recognisable design, and heritage too. Not many watches out there have all that.

First of all, all ADs are different, and Rolex rules for each AD can be different, there is no right answer.

In my experience, do my Rolex purchases put me to a more favourable position for the next Rolex? Certainly not. The attitude is, by selling you Rolex watches, AD is doing you a favour, selling you an item below market value, handing you cash in their mindset. In return, they expect regular purchase of items that have fat margins.

But I guess if you and your family shopped that 10+ Rolex spread across the last 20 years, it proves you to be a regular buyer and could help.

At the end of the day, it's all about money. If an AD aim short, it sells the Rolex directly to grey market dealer, pocket extra cash instantly. ADs that play the long game? They use their Rolex to build relationships with high value clients. Question is, what's your position in this Rolex game?

My sincere advice, never spend extra on other items in the hope to get your Rolex, it won't work, not until you spend an obscene amount, not worth it. Just be patient for the market to cool down, or go grey.

For me it's the other way round: never seen a dummy Rolex before, always ticking ones. I'm based in Germany.

The sales rep at my AD said, the Rolex rule for their store is, there has to be N pieces of Rolex at the store at any point in time. When new stocks arrive, they can sell the new arrivals, or they could keep the new ones and sell the existing stocks. But they have to keep a minimum amount as exhibition pieces. I guess this is a policy to avoid "ghost" Rolex stores like at some international airports.

Because the Rolex watches are essentially in rotation and can get sold eventually, they are all real, fully functional Rolex watches.

no, 10 other Rolexs won't get you that watch, more like 10 other non Rolex/PP and some jewelries

Recently had a visit to the local Breitling boutique, one thing that's clear to me is, all new models (Navitimer, Premier, Top Time, Super Ocean) are aesthetically pleasing, with lots of visual strikes that gives a degree of fineness to them and well worth the price they're asking for.

Seems like the baseline of new Breitling is: Good looking, and maximise the use of the in-house B01

Doxa! that's a rare sight!