Freedom – How I rid myself of all my modern Rolex watches

[Trog]

I thought I would be depressed, or perhaps suffering from sellers remorse…..but in fact I feel liberated!

Let’s go back a few years…… I started collecting Rolex about 10-years ago. Perhaps it was my stockbroker buddy that introduced me to the brand, or perhaps it was just a mid-life crisis? In any case, my first purchase was a gently used Submariner date.

That was shortly traded for a grey market SubC no-date. Over the next few years, I added a Daytona, Batman, Milgauss, Day-Date, ….and two very nice vintage timepieces (5513 & 1675).

Yesterday, I sold my last modern steel Rolex. Why? Well for one thing, they were seeing very little wrist time. I had other more comfortable watches to choose from, so every Monday morning when I visited the safe, it was unlikely a Rolex was selected for that week.

Now don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed my Rolex watches, and was always on the lookout for the next one. However, as I never developed a relationship with a Rolex AD, I was pretty low on their Pepsi & Daytona waiting list. And there was no way I was going to pay current grey-market prices.

I plan on keeping my vintage Rolex (at least for the time being), but now my attention has moved to other brands. Having visited all my local high-end horology AD’s, I see there are so many impressive time pieces out there that I haven’t considered in the past. Plus, many of these brands suffer horrific depreciation making used examples very attractive.

Will I even purchase another modern Rolex….not for a while. I wouldn’t mind adding another nice Vintage Rolex to the collection, but there’s nothing in their current line-up that gets me excited.