So how long do you want to wait for a Daytona?

[Sub*Man]

Originally Posted by alonsowwss

The “wait list” doesn’t exist. It’s all about how much you spend, the relationship you have with your AD.

This


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[rallyx]

Originally Posted by SS Oyster

I was the first customer at the grand opening of a new Rolex Boutique and so was first on waitlist for SS Daytona. I’ve bought three watches there so far, but still no call for the 116500. It’s been three years.

You may be the first on the list but there'll always be another Henry Hill.

[ArtNouveau]

Originally Posted by Sub*Man

Guys…. There are no lists. Sure, sales associates keep files of what we want, and when it comes in they make a case to the Manager, Owner etc for allocation. These decisions are based off spend history.. not who put their name down. Of course people get lucky and the guy before you rejected it and you came up next in line with minimal/no spend history, but there are no lists.


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Speak for yourself. My AD, a high volume Rolex only Boutique has lists. Spending helps, but the criteria isn’t that cut and dried. I got a SS Daytona after buying two other SS Professional models, hardly whale value.

[rallyx]

Originally Posted by ArtNouveau

Speak for yourself. My AD, a high volume Rolex only Boutique has lists. Spending helps, but the criteria isn’t that cut and dried. I got a SS Daytona after buying two other SS Professional models, hardly whale value.

Some days, we're in the queue. Some days, we're Henry Hill.

[Nairn1980]

Originally Posted by TswaneNguni

So,if you decided that Daytona is the love of your life and you cannot live without her ....

Go grey and be done .

10 years from now the premium will be very much in YOUR favour .

Exactly this

[nachopc]

Originally Posted by Driver8

I was in town today, so I dropped into my AD as it’d been a while. I’m not currently on a list, or waiting for anything, so it was literally just a social visit with the guy I’ve known and been dealing with for around 15 years.

I asked him how the “Rolex situation” is, and he (fairly obviously) said it was absolutely insane. Interestingly though he said they’re actually seeing a few more pieces coming in recently, BUT that’s obviously more than offset by what he said was conservatively a ten-fold increase in people enquiring about Rolex watches over the last couple of years.

The thing that made me laugh though was when I asked about current wait list lengths and he said the SS Daytona (again, fairly obviously) was the worst by some margin. He said that with the number of pieces they get per year, and the number of people on the list, he said that people at the bottom of their list would literally have a 20 year wait.

So if you’re a walk-in off the street and fancy putting your name down for a Daytona, you may as well do it, and in the meantime there’s plenty you can do to pass the time. Hell you could even have a child, raise them, put them through school, college and get them most of the way through Uni before you need to pay for your Daytona!

You will never get it as in 20 years would be a new SS model……


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[nachopc]

Originally Posted by brucethemanlee

8 months white
4 months black

0 months for white as I was N1
11 months black



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[Mystro]

Originally Posted by TswaneNguni

So,if you decided that Daytona is the love of your life and you cannot live without her ....

Go grey and be done .

10 years from now the premium will be very much in YOUR favour .

Isn’t that the truth. The way it’s been going you might only have to wait 3-4 years before you feel like you got a bargain buying a SS Daytona now. I am kicking myself not buying 4 years ago when everyone said “no way the SS Daytona will go above $20k.”.

[MAINEZX10]

For myself, my first 116520 I purchased from my grey guy. I have purchased the 116520 & 116500 , black dials, both from AD’s. I made a relationship with a salesman at each AD, I think making the relationship is key. The AD I purchased the 116520 is no longer an AD. I stopped in a new AD, wearing the 116520, after some emailing, to introduce myself. I stayed in touch and 3 months later, he called me with a black dial 116500. Relationships help out a lot.

[Calatrava r]

Interesting, there just was a thread where the consensus seemed to be that ADs get two or more SS Daytona's a month.

[templeton]

I have a family member who sells watches. (gray market). He has probably received 8 Panda's, this year, from the same AD and flips them for a healthy profit.

[Michael T]

Originally Posted by Ferrari308

So, what would the wait be like for a TT Daytona?

PDG

I waited six months, receiving a white dial in May of this year.

[gtnator]

Originally Posted by Driver8

I was in town today, so I dropped into my AD as it’d been a while. I’m not currently on a list, or waiting for anything, so it was literally just a social visit with the guy I’ve known and been dealing with for around 15 years.

I asked him how the “Rolex situation” is, and he (fairly obviously) said it was absolutely insane. Interestingly though he said they’re actually seeing a few more pieces coming in recently, BUT that’s obviously more than offset by what he said was conservatively a ten-fold increase in people enquiring about Rolex watches over the last couple of years.

The thing that made me laugh though was when I asked about current wait list lengths and he said the SS Daytona (again, fairly obviously) was the worst by some margin. He said that with the number of pieces they get per year, and the number of people on the list, he said that people at the bottom of their list would literally have a 20 year wait.

So if you’re a walk-in off the street and fancy putting your name down for a Daytona, you may as well do it, and in the meantime there’s plenty you can do to pass the time. Hell you could even have a child, raise them, put them through school, college and get them most of the way through Uni before you need to pay for your Daytona!

Or you can pay extra and have a trusted seller FedEx it to you tomorrow.


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[TswaneNguni]

Originally Posted by brucethemanlee

8 months white
4 months black

9 months Black
1 year White

Different ADs

Lucky,thats all.