Best gray market watch dealers full#

Best gray market watch dealers full#

You have a non AD acquired Rolex in need of service that can only be done at the mothership at full retail because your non AD affiliated watchmaker and/or sales source cannot get the parts for the repair. Moreover, as Rolex continues to stay 'unobtanium' they have also tightened their distribution of repair parts to non AD affiliated watchmakers setting up a perfect storm. What I would not do is buy a Rolex at 1.5 to 2x retail from a grey mkt dealer with the expectation that the mothership would honor any warranty at all. Places like Chrono24 aren't so great as far as pricing, and some of those sellers are questionable. There are a lot of trusted sellers on here who can get you whatever you need at a very good price. Omega OEM parts and their equivalents are widely available for these watches. Cartier, Audemar Piguet, Breitling, Franck Muller, Girard-perregaux, Iwc, Jaeger Lecoultre, Longines, Hublot, Maurice Lacroix, Omega, Piaget, Panerai, Patek. The Sales Corner on here is a great place to start. The older non Coaxial ones have a movement that is ETA based and fairly robust.

The best way to spot an authorized dealer is to look for the following: A. The new Co-Axial Seamasters have a service interval that equals or exceeds the newly expanded 5 yr warranty anyway. Most gray market watch dealers will try to tell you that they are authorized dealers.

I would buy new from a grey mkt dealer so long as I thought that they would stand behind their store warranty i.e.