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Old 29 March 2024, 04:47 AM   #10
bp1000
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What do you mean?
Someone likely bought these and sold them for profit.

The meteorite Daytonas are discontinued so not listed
The GMT is an off book gemset model which I couldn't tell you if it's still a current production unless you see the off book price list.

Here in the UK, both models are not sent to AD's by surprise, even when negotiated in Jan for the yearly stock allocations.

Both models you listed are allocated by the regional Rolex representative to an AD to sell to a pre-approved customer. In other words these models dont just get sent to an AD and the AD then decides to sell to whomever, the person is usually pre-approved by someone at Rolex.

If that is not how it works where you live, I can only assume the AD held the stock back and is selling because they lost their AD status. An AD account is worth far more to a small to medium store than any quick profit on some rare models. You would have to be mental to try and sell new rolex stock as a grey when you are the AD.
There have of course been several examples of this in recent years, sometimes there is a pool of very corrupt sales staff doing it via private emails and tactics.
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