So a crazy thing happened at a Rolex A.D. in Ottawa

[Chunky]

Hi all, Went to pick up my 1680 Red Sub from an A.D. finally ready from being serviced after 9 weeks; they still have their own factory trained techs on site with quite a labratory. Not sure if I am allowed to mention names, so I won't, but I have to say they did a fantastic job.

Well after picking up the watch, I decided to put a deposit on a brand new GMT BLNR! I was so nervous that my 1680 I had picked up began to feel very tight on my wrist, LOL

That being said, I guess I'll be able to start posting in The General Discussion section as well very soon! There is no promise date, but they believe the watch should be available by May 2018, which is fine with me.

Cheers everyone

[brucethemanlee]

That seems like quite a wait (6 months)... however not sure if that is typical wait times in Canada

[yxc145]

Originally Posted by brucethemanlee

That seems like quite a wait (6 months)... however not sure if that is typical wait times in Canada

Maybe there is a couple of guys ahead of him.

[Chunky]

Originally Posted by brucethemanlee

That seems like quite a wait (6 months)... however not sure if that is typical wait times in Canada

From what they are telling me this is the typical wait right now for this item

[GB-man]

Congratulations Charles! How about a shot of the 1680 to tide us over?

[Chunky]

Originally Posted by GB-man

Congratulations Charles! How about a shot of the 1680 to tide us over?

My intention was to share some photos as they took some during the servicing, which was really cool, but the size uploading process wont allow me to do so since the images exceed the size limit, max width, max height?

Bummer

[Chunky]

Originally Posted by GB-man

Congratulations Charles! How about a shot of the 1680 to tide us over?

Finally figured out how to reduce pictures lol. By the way, many were taken throughout servicing process. All parts that were changed were returned to me including tube & crown. They insisted on changing tube & crown to make watch waterproof again. My fat font insert had issues fitting and they were scared to snap it so it was not installed.

Cheers

[RW16610]

Congrats, Charles! I hope the time passes by as quickly as possible for you

[tng11]

Congrats!

BLNRs are hard, but not impossible to come by in Canada. My AD had one available over this weekend that wasn't spoken for yet, it sold pretty quickly (I picked up the D-Blue from that shipment.)

[Chunky]

Originally Posted by tng11

Congrats!

BLNRs are hard, but not impossible to come by in Canada. My AD had one available over this weekend that wasn't spoken for yet, it sold pretty quickly (I picked up the D-Blue from that shipment.)

I just hope there is no price change. They could not even guarantee that...

[zakattack62]

Depends on the dealer in Canada. I got my BLNR in two days from my AD in Windsor who I'm told is one of the largest volume sellers in Canada.

[tng11]

Originally Posted by zakattack62

Depends on the dealer in Canada. I got my BLNR in two days from my AD in Windsor who I'm told is one of the largest volume sellers in Canada.

Interesting. I would expect it to be because of buyers from the United States? I can't imagine Windsor having a big market for Rolex. I would have expected it to be one of the ADs in Toronto or Vancouver - but maybe because the demand is spread around in those cities?