Shortest wait time for SS Sports models (post craze)

[Images and Words]

Just got 126610. 3 months wait, zero prior relationship, visited the SA every 2 weeks. . Same AD has offered me any DJ41 after 6 weeks with a deposit and delivery in 3-6 months.

[calatravato]

I know you asked about steel models, but it took 3 business days to get a Bluesy, with my only previous purchase from that AD being a Grand Seiko.

[gmt1]

114060 same day in 2019, complete luck of the draw (no prior history at said AD). Someone to who it was allocated didn't show up, so it was mine. All other allocations have taken me at least 4 weeks

[Daytonaman799]

I got an SD 43 same day and my wife got a Pepsi in 3 days for me for my icy day.this was in 2020 and 2021. In 2018 I got a white ceramic Daytona after about 2-3 months.

[al1786]

116520 - no wait 2015
1166710LN no wait 2018
116610LN - no wait 2018


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[Jay2101]

Originally Posted by al1786

116520 - no wait 2015
1166710LN no wait 2018
116610LN - no wait 2018


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Wow nice! Did you have purchase history with your AD?

[al1786]

Originally Posted by Jay2101

Wow nice! Did you have purchase history with your AD?

116520 purchased from overseas AD
116710LN pay to play purchase.
116610LN from the same AD as above but different branch.


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[EndlessEight]

Originally Posted by al1786

116520 - no wait 2015
1166710LN no wait 2018
116610LN - no wait 2018


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pre-craze.

Outside the scope of the thread.

[Silvio_86]

Same day for hulk in 2020… but had a deal with my AD since last purchase… great AD even if I am not a big spender… we both love watches in the same way I guess


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[Atmwireless]

12 hours for a Pepsi on jubliee…..

Was waiting for a daydate rg olive with no luck. My sa asked me what other watches I wanted….. I said… blue sky…. Pepsi or Batman. Next morning I got a Pepsi.

June 2022

[Frog7151]

Still waiting on a Sub.

[Yobber76]

August of 2018 I convinced my AD to order a BLNR for me. They wanted a deposit. When I showed up they took one out of the safe for me. They said it had just come in. It was my second Rolex from that AD at the time.

[Dasd329]

Come to Los Angeles home of the 2/3 year wait time, doesn’t matter how loyal you are too many big names with money

[shaunylw]

BLRO-3 months. Asked for it late April, picked it up today.


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[Vigilante24]

-Olive Green Everose Daydate: 3 month wait. Asked for in March 2022, received June 2022. Purchased 3 Rolexes and 1 Tudor since 2021.

-BLRO: 2 month wait. Asked for in November 2020, received January 2021. Purchased 1 Datejust 28mm

Different ADs. I was ready to wait years for both of these models. Really is about your relationship with your SA with a mix of purchase history from my experience. Cheers!

[Shauz]

116610ln Submariner, no wait 2012 plenty of stock in the safe AD even let me 'picked' my own serial number they had 4 or 5 I believe.

[Jay2101]

Originally Posted by Shauz

116610ln Submariner, no wait 2012 plenty of stock in the safe AD even let me 'picked' my own serial number they had 4 or 5 I believe.

2012 doesn't count lol. Post craze. So mid 2017 or later.

Glad to hear you were able to pick your own serial number though. Imagine being able to do today...

[HiBoost]

Dec 2020, 126613LB, 1 day wait, no purchase history.

Needless to say, it's gotten a bit harder since then

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[Fred_Tan]

Could be young millennial & zoomers not intuned to large sports professional tool watch.
Hint: check out the latest London, Milan, Rome, Tokyo, NYC, LA mags and fashion scene for men.
No one is wearing skinny pants or skinny jean or khakis no more.

And no one is wearing no Sub, DSSD, SD, Ex2, GMT2, YM2 or any watch larger than 41mm.
Hardly anyone is wearing any watch with black or dark colored dials or any thick watches.

Complications more complicated than date/chrono is out.
And PM is making its way back, along with thin small dress-watch, studded with diamonds, mother-of-pearl, on brightly colored stella/enamel/laqoured dials no-less.

You will be walking around looking like a granpa if you strut in the streets of Tokyo wearing a James Cameron, End-of-Days or any Panerai

[bluestreak]

Originally Posted by Fred_Tan

Could be young millennial & zoomers not intuned to large sports professional tool watch.
Hint: check out the latest London, Milan, Rome, Tokyo, NYC, LA mags and fashion scene for men.
No one is wearing skinny pants or skinny jean or khakis no more.

And no one is wearing no Sub, DSSD, SD, Ex2, GMT2, YM2 or any watch larger than 41mm.
Hardly anyone is wearing any watch with black or dark colored dials or any thick watches.

Complications more complicated than date/chrono is out.
And PM is making its way back, along with thin small dress-watch, studded with diamonds, mother-of-pearl, on brightly colored stella/enamel/laqoured dials no-less.

You will be walking around looking like a granpa if you strut in the streets of Tokyo wearing a James Cameron, End-of-Days or any Panerai

Lot of matter of fact pronouncements here.


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[rolexpatek363]

Originally Posted by Fred_Tan

Could be young millennial & zoomers not intuned to large sports professional tool watch.
Hint: check out the latest London, Milan, Rome, Tokyo, NYC, LA mags and fashion scene for men.
No one is wearing skinny pants or skinny jean or khakis no more.

And no one is wearing no Sub, DSSD, SD, Ex2, GMT2, YM2 or any watch larger than 41mm.
Hardly anyone is wearing any watch with black or dark colored dials or any thick watches.

Complications more complicated than date/chrono is out.
And PM is making its way back, along with thin small dress-watch, studded with diamonds, mother-of-pearl, on brightly colored stella/enamel/laqoured dials no-less.

You will be walking around looking like a granpa if you strut in the streets of Tokyo wearing a James Cameron, End-of-Days or any Panerai

Tokyo sounds fun, but none of that is true in the rest of the world.

[Jay2101]

Originally Posted by Fred_Tan

Could be young millennial & zoomers not intuned to large sports professional tool watch.
Hint: check out the latest London, Milan, Rome, Tokyo, NYC, LA mags and fashion scene for men.
No one is wearing skinny pants or skinny jean or khakis no more.

And no one is wearing no Sub, DSSD, SD, Ex2, GMT2, YM2 or any watch larger than 41mm.
Hardly anyone is wearing any watch with black or dark colored dials or any thick watches.

Complications more complicated than date/chrono is out.
And PM is making its way back, along with thin small dress-watch, studded with diamonds, mother-of-pearl, on brightly colored stella/enamel/laqoured dials no-less.

You will be walking around looking like a granpa if you strut in the streets of Tokyo wearing a James Cameron, End-of-Days or any Panerai

Actually do see Panerai sometimes here in Tokyo

[waterking]

In Texas, where Rolex is king, 41mm is considered a small ranchette among watches. We rarely think of Tokyo or its watch dynamic and their are LOTS of YMII's, GMTII's, Subs, etc. being worn daily. Of course, we ain't much for using magazines as guidance either.

[KeithP]

36mm OP, steel dial, straight out of case in Oct ‘19. Watches of Switzerland, SOHO NYC

126900 Air-King, 3 week wait after purchasing Omega 300M in April ‘22. Watches of Switzerland, Hudson Yards, NYC.

[PhilH930]

1) ~4 mths for 126610LN following the purchase of a Seamaster 300 (2021)
2) ~13 months for BLNR Oyster following purchase of Sub above (2022)
3) Patiently waiting again, and was told they are limited to 1 per year per customer

[Chester01]

So walked into the AD and case was filled with Subs, GMT's DJ's, Explorer I and II.........back in 1998 that is. By the time I got my Daytona (2014), I called and it was in the safe and they never put on display. I walked in and they took it out of the back, out of the coffin and sized it and I walked out. Meanwhile they were giving the usual business to those that walked in, well there is so much demand and a big wait list, and on and on. What I realized is that AD's tend to have stock, they just reserve some models for repeat customers which in todays day and age is whelp gray market dealers

[Texex]

White Daytona in January 2018 in 6-7 weeks. My wifes datejust the same year took longer than that.

[rolexjackson]

I got a 226 exp II just by asking for it a few months ago

So I asked for a GMT MasterII Pepsi still waiting for that one.


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[bryant_is_bored]

Been trying for a year for my 1st piece, just want a no date sub 124060 as a daily. Been visiting 2 ADs on the regular & have had good convo's with them each time but I guess no go with being offered anything in person or getting a phone call. I'm in OC, California so no luck for me here.

[SBWOLLMAN]

I purchased my 116520 with white face from Tourneau Bal Harbour in November 2013 while visiting my Dad in Miami with no purchase history from that AD. Per the store managers, the timepiece had been stored in the back vault for a client who, if I remember correctly, had missed his return flight from CDG-MIA earlier that day.