Rolex warranty card no good?

[JacksonStone]

Originally Posted by jonnyz1245

The middle part is not accurate. A grey market seller can write a name in on a card as long as the card has been swiped at the AD at time of sale. Does Rolex frown on it? yes. Is the Ad supposed to let it leave the store blank? no. Does it happen? yes. Quite often. As another poster said, you can write Donald Duck or XXXXX on the card. The warranty follows the watch and rolex does not track names in the US.

So it's a myth that the customer's name is recorded at the time of activation? Someone posted in a thread a few months ago that Rolex started implementing the procedure recently in an attempt to curb the gray market. Supposedly the card swipe encodes the name of the buyer in some database, and the name on the card has to match the name on file in the database in order for the warranty to be valid. It was a "my AD said" type of claim, so I didn't know how much weight to give it.