New watch as gift - warranty card not in your name = issue?

[AK797]

Originally Posted by Grahamcombat

How does/would Rolex know who a VIP is? There’s no database of VIP’s. Rolex doesn’t give two sh!ts about the “status” that an AD has put on someone.

In your example above we’re supposed to think/believe Rolex knows the names of buyers, and their status? It doesn’t make sense for Rolex to care. They make a million watches a year: are they maintaining a database of millions of buyers? Doubtful.

Like has been said before: the warranty follows the watch. The buyer, ultimately, is a “John” - like with a prostitute - and is only there to give the money.

I recently bought a BLNR, over email, with a wire transfer, as a gift, from out-of-state, from an AD, without once ever “talking” to them, and they shipped, to a third state, the watch, with warranty card filled out in the recipients name. The driver of this whole market is money, not people. If the numbers match Rolex doesn’t care whose name is on the card.


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Have you been living in a cave? Rolex are launching a major offensive on curbing the grey market so they want to know everything! If Rolex find a watch at a greys they can trace the sale back to the AD who will then tell them we sold to a VIP we know well, who has spent £100K etc with us so we trusted him and Rolex will be cool with that, altho there have been cases before where Rolex even ripped these unsuspecting ADs a new one. But if the sale was to Joe Bloggs then the AD is in trouble for not vetting the customer and contributing to the grey problem.

Warranty flows the watch as always, just the initial purchaser and name on warranty must match, and ought to be explainable by an AD to a suspicious Rolex.