My thoughts on the letter Rolex have written to it’s dealers recently outlining a scale back in production of Rolex and Tudor watches due to the energy crisis impacted by the conflict in eastern Europe.
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Glad you’re making a good recovery, I love you’re relaxed style , seems to de stress me slightly. I’m caring for my mum she’s in her 90s gave up work after 40 years to help out. The watches you guys have are amazing, I especially like the batgirl . Although unfortunately my pocket only stretches to my Hamilton’s, I’ve got 3 of them two khaki field automatics one in 42 mm one 38mm and also a mechanical version. I do like the omega seamaster, really lovely watch. But I can only dream about Rolex. Great video mate
Then buy a Tudor
No, but a crisis in Europe is a lovely cover for their market manipulations. Cynical perhaps, but no more cynical than what Rolex has done and continues to do. I personally will never buy a Rolex; not after their behaviour to manipulate pricing and demand.
Market manipulation by grey market traders, buyers be careful.
Easy way to find out is to ask the AD .. i take all these rumours with a pinch of salt I’ve probably heard 100 in the last 5 years and virtually never come true so won’t hold my breath , Horace are a fantastic brand .,,
If you are looking for an explorer, remember Addisdive, Pagani Design and others have no such problem and are freely available.
My Addisdive is running at +2sec/day so tell me again why Bolux sory Rolex are worth the money….
Good to see you back Andy 😈.
I was getting concerned!
You can only do your best with Rolex (and now Tudor ……. and Omega!).
I thought I was not going to get another but then got a weird call, followed shortly by ‘The Call’ for a blue OP41.
You cast your line and see what it catches.
There are lots of others to enjoy in the meantime 😉
Omega are clearly starting to play ‘The Game’ with its customers, and it will be interesting to see how Omega fanboys deal with it 😮
As has been widely discussed Rolex have changed their "interest in purchase" list by limiting each customer to only 3 watch's on the list and a maximum purchase of 3 watch's a year. More recently they have closed the list entirely for their high demand watch's. This is clearly an attempt on their part to get the numbers on the lists down and also give those with little or no previous purchase history an opportunity of possibly getting a watch. So are they trying to cause a deliberate shortage, I doubt it. I recently received a two tone Root beer GMT in 6 months when I was expecting to wait 2 years+. Is this a real or fake letter, who knows, but I have no doubt it will be jumped on by many as another one of those "Rolex Conspiracy Theory's". I viewed Paul's channel for quite a while now and he does get a lot of things right but he also gets a lot of things wrong and to be fair to the guy he does openly point that out. Only time will tell.
Why anybody on youtube would even get close to thinking that a letter of this kind and language would be real is beyond me. Come on…! 😂
I finally got the call last month for a white dial Daytona and its nice to not have to worry about any potential cutbacks in production. At this point, they can do whatever they want in my book……
Hi Andy,
Only recently discovered your channel which is already becoming one of my favourites. Always well presented and interesting to watch. Well done and looking forward to the next.
People need to understand Rolex are marketing geniuses arguabley the best in the world, they will not allow prices to drop much more , it will tarnish their name , their brand and most importantly their pockets.
Rolex can increase their prices as they do each year resulting in more desire and branding depth as well as cutting supply resulting in shortages forcing people to go to the greymarket and pay those Saturated we prices to keep their brand in demand and in flow , people can always stay on the list but that will be adding many more years to the ever waiting list.
Just brought my Batman on the grey market and have been waiting 3.5 years now for my Pepsi from the AD.
Hi Andy! Great to see you, was worried for your absence. I appreciate your objectivisim and almost always agree with your point of view. Please send some material from either expo you choose to attend. Greetings from MX.
Same dilemma .. Watchpro live or Redbar 🤷🏻
Grand Seiko: The cure for the common Rolex.
I don't think it was genuine
This world is worthy of cynicism. Recession and inflation are impacting the world. Rolex is clever, but in this case, I believe this is more strategic and less charitable.
Rolex has confirmed this letter to be false and not genuine.
Sounds nonsense to me. Typical Rolex drama thought up by a man in a grey office. Welcome back Andy, my favourite watch nerd 🙂 Bill Gates once said 'Be nice to the nerds in school; they may be your boss one day'.
No more tourists fro china, thats why. If you own a money printing business you can stay at home fore a while.
Get to the point and show some watches….you're so boring.
be safe. be healthy. lots of water. ~ JDS/CT
andy, i got my blnr on oyster this past july after roughly a month (once the ad really put their effort into it) as they're really not as rare as we'd like to think (they allocated one just 3 months prior to receiving mine). cheers!
It was a hoax rolex themselves said it
Hey Andy, glad you are doing fine! On the toning down of the sub, I too chose RubberB to make my Bluesy fly under the radar, and it is indeed wonderful! Totally agree it’s not that hard to put a strap on, with the Rolex spring bars. Keep up the good work and stay strong!!