Exhibition models. Is this a new low?

[samuel019]

Ok TRF please help me out with some of your experiences when it comes to exhibition models. So long story short this has nothing to do with A D’s having exhibition models and what they are for but has anyone ever been refused to see and try them on??

As the story goes my wife and I were traveling abroad, Paris and while there I was told no that I couldn’t see/try any on. This was at Dubail on the Champs Elysees which I’m pretty sure is a boutique. They had pretty much every model imaginable. Multiple Meteorite Daytona’s etc. Full RG and OF. The one I asked to see was a diamond dial 116505. Wasn’t even asking about the “infamous” Meteorite version.

If some of my fellow TRF members follow some of my posts you’ll know I’m desperately trying to check my last box before leaving Rolex, a 116505, so I wanted to try one on for the first time in my life. Told flat out just no. Not to mention I was wearing a Rolex. So we just left. Not much else we could do.

Sorry for the long story that was supposed to be short but I am/was just flabbergasted. Never ever experienced being told no when looking to try something on. So after that experience I didn’t even bother asking at another A D or boutique. Maybe I should’ve but at that point I was like F it. I just know that this is the whole point of “exhibition models”. Normally Gotta make for long days as an SA there.