New member, first post & an interesting AD experience

[iamthewalrus]

Hello everyone,

I've read many a post on this forum and a recent interesting experience at an authorised dealer prompted me to register!

so here I am, my name is James, a photographer from Cheshire, England,

here's my pride and joy, a lovely G-serial 14060m, my first and only rolex so far.



so anyway,

I've just got back from a holiday in Tenerife, and was looking in the windows of the AD in Playa De Las Americas, upon seeing the 114060 I decided to pop in and have a little comparison between that and my submariner, Whilst I was looking at the 114060 on my wrist, the saleswoman picked up mine and had a look at it, when she put it down I picked both up and was comparing them in profile, at this point she started tugging the 114060 off me said "You cannot compare these watches, this (the 114060) is a genuine real rolex, yours is maybe a good 500 euro replica!" Needless to say I was dumbfounded, and as i was putting mine back on my wrist without saying a word she continued "you see, yours has holes in the case, on a real rolex they don't go all the way through, plus it is very light compared to the real one"

At this point i was most confused, and with my spanish not being really up to par I decided to leave it at that! I'm sure this particular saleswoman couldn't have been an actual rolex salesperson, as this AD was part of a larger jewellers yet that lack of knowledge is still worrying, has anybody else had this happen to them?!

Looking forward to being part of the forum,

James