How I know: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pGei0NVtgLy_dto.htmlsi=JAMMaxUieiQPSRS-&t=139

I’m a firm believer that a lot of Rolex ADs are selling the watches on the grey market so they can get more profit. Why else would their be hundreds of Daytonas or Rolexes in the grey market? There is no Rolex shortage, they are all in the grey market lol.

@TheRunningManZ

8 ай бұрын

How do you explain the 132 Omega Silver Snoopy’s currently on Chrono24? Those watches are Omega Boutique exclusive watches only, they have only been out a couple of years (correction 3 years) and there are loads being flipped. Omega can directly control who gets to buy them via their boutiques. There’s no conspiracy, people that can make a quick profit sometimes do. It is possible that a couple of bad apple Rolex AD’s have sold a few watches out the back door? Yes it is. But the reality is that they get flipped by all brands where possible by people that can do it. It’s the general public flipping most of these.

@TheRunningManZ

8 ай бұрын

Just to put some meat on the bones. There are 1800 or so Rolex ADs in the world. The outdoing Daytona has been out since 2016, there are 969 Daytona’s listed on chrono24. The Daytona was out for 7 years in two colours and is possibly the most sort after and flipable steel watch on the planet and there are 969 for sale. Where as the Omega Silver Snoopy sells from only 60 Omega Boutiques world wide and it is known to be limited supply but not a limited edition, it’s only been out 3 years and is highly likely to be made in much smaller numbers than the Daytona is. Rolex make way more watches per year than Omega do and the Snoopy is a low supply boutique only watch for Omega and yet they themselves can’t stop the watch being flipped from only 60 boutiques that they have way more control over.

@NPrez-cv4jn

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely right. I learned this a year and a half ago when I walked into a watch shop (non Rolex AD) and they were fully stocked in all Rolex models, from Daytonas to GMTs… they had everything New/unworn at secondary market price of course. They were clearly being supplied, and still are, by several ADs.

@thecianinator

8 ай бұрын

Well it seems like they profit, and there's no punishment or even enforcement, so if you're a Rolex AD and you're not flipping new stock on the gray market you're basically saying no to free money right?

@simonthewatchguy6073

8 ай бұрын

There's absolutely no doubt about it. The AD's are crooked, they're selling Rolex's out the back door and / or to celebrities. Your normal customer, or first time customer isn't getting one. I went into an AD and asked if I could buy a sub. I was laughed at and told: how I needed to "begin the Rolex journey with an OP" - imagine walking into a car dealership and being told "you can't buy a ford focus as your first car, you must buy a ford KA" - I walked out and went grey market. Looking back, I wish I bought Omega, because I now realised that I helped fund the grey market machine.

I can think of 67,000 plus reasons not to buy an AP too! 😂😂😂 Nice of that guy to try and spend MY money! I really appreciate it! The waiting list thing is the reason why I walked away from the Rolex AD and went into an Omega / Longines AD and purchased that day! If I want to play games, I’ll go back to nursery school. It’s telling time! You already charge retail prices thats too high for what you get…your competitors make watches as good or superior to yours. Oh well, no worries. I got what I needed, and still put 4K back in my pocket. 🎉

What’s this got to do with Rolex vs Omega??

@psidvicious

10 күн бұрын

Exactly my question. This was more of a Rolex commercial than any kind serious comparison video. I’ve noticed this deceptive titling on a few videos from this channel so I think it’s time to black-list the channel for being a time-waister.

I went into Goldsmiths yesterday to add a Datejust 41 to my list as I thought I may stand a slightly better chance of getting one. Than the models I previously expressed an interest in. This watch purchase should get me a chance at getting a steel professional model I thought. I didn’t quite get a slap in the face, but the watch was added to my list and I was hurried out the shop as the assistant had someone coming in on an appointment. Apparently they don’t like you popping unannounced these days. Whatever next? Maybe a waitlist to be able to go into the AD to put your name down on the waitlist!

@TheRunningManZ

8 ай бұрын

This is really bad now. So many places are like it. It’s a hang over from the lock downs IMO. They want you emailing the store to express an interest. They don’t want people visiting unless they have an appt. I’ve experienced the same in several ADs and several Holy Trinity boutiques in London. The tide is turning though, the prices are coming down and the buyers market is gradually coming back. Even “softer” brands in the after market have had it easy in recent years demand wise.

@dunderhay9169

8 ай бұрын

Really? Don't put up with this, please take yourself off their stupid list, the watches really aren't worth being demeaned by these horrible people.

Omega makes watches; Rolex makes jewelry. The advantage that Rolex has over Omega is that not only does their watches look like jewelry in a good way (watches are the most broadly accepted jewelry for men) but they also make an amazing product that can compite head to head to Omega. Omega om the other hand has better pricing, availability and a brand identity that has not been tainted by flexers.

@lightorchestrator

24 күн бұрын

I actually think Omega's are often prettier and nicer to wear.

Did I miss the part where you spoke about buying an Omega?

@psidvicious

10 күн бұрын

I missed that part too. This was more of a Rolex commercial than any kind serious comparison video. I’ve noticed this deceptive titling on a few videos from this channel so I think it’s time to black-list the channel for being a time-waister.

I like the Apple Watch (I recently bought the Ultra 2). I use it to track health data and to quickly navigate through playlists while listening to music on the go. I’ve pretty much disabled all message and app notifications. I also wear it on the right wrist so I can wear my normal watches on my left wrist.

I’m not a watch guy but I enjoy your content. I am getting something of an horological education watching you here and on Watchfinder.

@grammarboy1318

8 ай бұрын

And so it begins …

@tomscott4438

8 ай бұрын

Sorry, you can't use "horological" and "I'm not a watch guy" in the same sentence.

@thecianinator

8 ай бұрын

I was just like you a few years ago. Now I have 10 watches. Get out while you can.

You should make a video about selling an Omega VS selling a Rolex as well....🤣...it is quite different too. Love both brands and own both as well.

Very enjoyable. As always. 👍👍👍

Love your videos always make me smile

Love when you hit Tom…never gets old!

“took a fall from a motorbike on its owners wrist, ask me how I know” - ha ha ha ha, yeah, I had a Seiko that died in exactly the same way. Been there, done that.

That was hilarious. Great video old son😂😂😂😂

You’re the best, Andrew

Loved this format. Obviously, Tom is a student of the Kominsky Method of acting. Bravo!

That original Apple Watch is straight off Alain Silberstein's drawing board surely? A thing of beauty for sure.

Nice Andrew! 👍🏼

I just don't think I'd take a Rolex into combat. Now, a Garmin Instinct 2X Tactical is a very different story.

You definitely have the record time to 100k nice work

I use a smartwatch because I need to track basic things like heart rate and steps. But I have loved traditional clocks and watches since I was little. My solution to this dilemma is to wear a traditional watch on my left wrist, and the smartwatch on my right wrist. 🙂 Just discovered your channel, by the way. I like your style very much compared to other watch-oriented channels. I hate channels where the host has to show you tHeY hAvE pErSoNaLiTy, loud and clear, when you can just be yourself, share interesting facts with wit and humour, and let the audience realise how good your channel is when they get to the end of the videos. Cheers! //Rick

@bumcrackwatchco.

7 ай бұрын

Are you unwell ? If your not stop making excuses

I got force choked for asking to go on a waitlist! So accurate!!

Never would I thought I would see a phone repair guru clip on Andrew’s channel, and yet here we are (The clip is the spy watch one)

Cereal, milk? Farley's Rusks, babies? Why would I want a Rolex? My brain hurts.

We didn’t get the best part, where Tom buys the Omega! Luckily I’ve seen that short before.

Going to a Rolex dealer is figuratively just like the end of the video. By contrast, my wife and I recently went into an Omega dealer, were, at our request, shown the entire line of Speedmasters, and offered water, chocolates and espresso. They answered questions and most of all had inventory so we could actually purchase what we wanted at retail. The Rolex dealer wouldn’t even put me on their “list”.

I agree, ADs have screwed ROLEX big time. The grey market are a side business for ADs. I hope ROLEX controls their watches moving forward.

I think you got “musical chairs” mixed up with “pass the parcel” both great kids games

Great Rolex ending!

Hey Andrew, thank you for so many highly entertaining videos! 🩵 Would love to see your verdict on a (gravely serious) Casio Gravitymaster GW-A1100-1A3. Cheers from Bremen/Germany!

Love the ending. That exactly how i feel when i walk into a rolex.

I’ll die on the hill that my stainless steel apple watch with a croc leather black strap with a butterfly clasp using the world time face can be very formal

@boomer0117zr

8 ай бұрын

Useful

This made my day

Ball DM1022-a black and yellow version, titanium case and bracelet

I stepped into an AD in Shanghai, China, this morning (02/10) and tried on a steel and gold, blue dial Submariner. I asked to be put on the waitlist and was told I might get the watch in a year. The saleman was very pleasant, allowed me and my missus to try on a variety of different models, including the GMT Master 2, Yachtmaster 2 in steel and for her, a ladies 28mm datejust, steel and gold, fluted bezel with chocolate dial and diamond markers. The take away, there is a wait list and I am on it. Quite a nice experience all round!

@simonthewatchguy6073

8 ай бұрын

There isn't a wait list. There's a "preferred client list". I'll tell you what'll happen: If you keep visiting the store, within 6-12 months they'll magically get a ladies datejust. If you buy it, and then buy some other expensive crap in the store, they might....might give you a call for your GMT master within another 12-24 months (if you're lucky). I gave up on supporting the brand and will do business with companies who appreciate my custom.

For the love of all that’s holy, you Brits need to get it right. Cereal first, then milk. Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.

@HerewardTheW

8 ай бұрын

Milk is bourgeois decadence. Cereal should be had plain, or with 1-2 tablespoons of tap water.

What's your opinion about Artisans de Genève?

Love when this guy makes fun of Rolex, effing' hilarious. Funny as Brit humor is usually dry. I have a Sub 41mm and absolutely know I paid a premium for it but wanted it in 2 weeks vs 2 years at the AD. Keep making those great watch videos Sir!

When did Tom start eating flies? lol 😂

Tom is brilliant

Good one at the end, I bet that will generate a lot of traffic in the comments section 😂

Oh FFS. Cereal is meant to be consumed with beer.

Good one.

"This is the SAS Explorer II".... shows standard Explorer II with engraving done by a local sports store, and an aftermarket caseback made in China.

Wtf, milk BEFORE the cereal?????

4 months on a waiting list. Haha, I have been waiting 2 years here in UAE for a datejust 36mm

If I recall correctly he bought the Daytona at an overseas base PX. At least through the 80s you used to be able to get a Rolex through the military PX/BX system overseas for about 30% less than you could get one at a US AD. He then got another 10% off because most military wanted a Sub, GMT, or OP/Datejust/Presient. If they didn’t have one in stock at your local base you just ordered it through the mail and got it in a week or so…

@tomscott4438

8 ай бұрын

Yup. There's another Antiques Roadshow episode where a guy stationed in Germany picked up a first-edition GMT Master for $134.00. Worth a bit more now.

@supermarioxs1

6 ай бұрын

Ahhh , those were the days . Now it’s a mafia

The short of buying Rolex vs Omega is funny and sadly true

@psidvicious

10 күн бұрын

Annoyingly the video didn’t do any sort of comparison between the two, as the title would lead you to believe. Rolex commercial.

Need that motorbike story now, Andrew…

@leftpastsaturn67

8 ай бұрын

There's a link in the pinned comment.

Ah yes Andrew, motorcycle abd watches , they crash well together 😮

Imagine getting a Daytona at will, and for one month's salary!

Andrew you forgot to mention that nobody ever wanted the Daytona up until a few years ago when the newman sold at auction. Now people go crazy for them like thy are all the actual watch of newmans that sold.

Has anyone told you that you and Tom remind them of Blackadder and Baldrick? 😂

All you need for fitness is a G Shock

@lightorchestrator

24 күн бұрын

That's what I wear for workouts

Excellent. Let's make this kind of videos a series!

Prepare for officially certified, superlative AD slaps 🤚

Poor Rolex, they’re such a lovely company that value their customers above and beyond any other company, as they show by allowing them the supreme honour of buying one of their products - though I’m sure not even the big R have reached the level of offering a slap around the face as a free gift quite yet…

@italianstallion3130

8 ай бұрын

Only Ferrari hates their customers more than Rolex

Theres basically only 2 differences between the two... Walk into a Omega shop and walk out with the watch you want. Walk into a Rolex AD and wait for upto 3 years to get what you want. And finally walk out with an Omega and lose money. Walk out with a Sub OP etc and make a couple of grand!

I don't wear Rolex all the time but have to admit 1675 is more useful and reliable than 15300 and 5711 when I rotate them

A fire alarm at a funeral ffs 😆😆😆

10:22 How did you know? 🤔

How do you know??

2:32 Well Samsung gonna introduce their Galaxy Ring earliest by next year

The secondary gray watch market is dead in a backyard swimming pool floating face down ..

Since you didn't show an Omega purchase, can we assume it's the opposite of being slapped? (FYI, I've purchased three. I was treated warmly and cordially, you know... like a customer)

What kind of a monster puts the milk in first?

Average UK salary is HOW MUCH!!!!

When my wife buy her Oyster Perpetual in Coral red at Bucherer in Zürich the give us a paper to sing that we not allowed buy another Rolex in the next 1.5 years. At this time our last purchase at Bucherer was about 15 years ago.

@benedekgabor.

8 ай бұрын

What the hell?

@stickshifter8

8 ай бұрын

In response you should have said OK put me down today on the waitlist for a steel Submariner. It will certainly take more than 1 1/2 years to get it anyway…

Love the vet story, when he realized he made 200K rate of return in his Daytona, rather than wasting it on booze & motor bike.

Andrew - you are the best......sorry Teddy...

where was the omega content in this?

What kind of psychological outlier puts the milk in the bowl first? They must have had a very traumatic childhood.

More of Tom banter please….

Where was the omega part???

Sun dial only works on a flat earth btw

Looks like designed by Elmo,....but if Alain Silberstein does the same thing....then is cool?

This whole AD thing is going out of hand, been trying to sing on to list for a year for basic OP41 or SS DJ41, no success in my country. At least in Italy I succeed to place manifestation of interest which means nothing and they told me I might wait 2-3 years for OP41…

Why I don’t buy an AP Royal Oak? Gee could the reason be I’m not rich.

Where is the part you actually talk about Omega?

Tulips.

I loved the fact of using a Rolex title to get attention and deliver a much more interesting content instead !!!

Only four months???

VSauce ❤

When Rolex shot up in price because of scarcity, Omega became the next Tudor, it's for people who can't afford Rolex grey prices and are not rich enough to impress the AD🤣 Omega fanboys save their money to buy a watch, Omega AD doesn't care, but Rolex AD does and now they're bitter to Rolex bec they got dissed for not being rich enough

*lmao*

Your channel was waaaay more engaging when we only saw your hands. More impactfull

The blatant ads destroy the 😮video.sick of the ANAN sign

Mido v Yema

Alain Silberstein

The vintage Apple watch is identical to a current Alain Silberstein. Both look as if designed by a toddler learning his/her shapes and colors!

MOST rich people stay rich by spending like the poor and investing without stopping then most poor people stay poor by spending like the rich yet not investing like the rich but impressing them

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8 ай бұрын

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8 ай бұрын

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@GlenroyRichards

8 ай бұрын

This is the kind of info we don't get from most! KZread channels. I'm definitely bouncing on this right away.... I'm really impressed

Just a reminder that the camera is showing your face too now, not just your hands! So where are you looking????

This was a quite boring episode

This guy really doesn't like Rolex, hope more people believe him so I can't mines faster;)))

Click baity, but great anyway

First

But who buys the Omega??

nekked watchmaker - he's so different and so talented @andrew

What I don't understand is if Rolex wants to make their watches more exclusive, why not just price them higher? That way only people with enough money can buy them.