Waiting list for a watch!

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Grant Fondo

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As I have a landmark birthday at the end of this year I thought I’d plan ahead and look into buying the watch I have always admired.

Contacted one local vendor today who told me that their waiting list was currently closed and the second one told me they have a 3 to 4 year waiting list but are happy to add me to it! Spreading my net further afield waiting lists don’t come any shorter that 18 months. Got my name added to a couple of lists so it’ll be a late present to myself!

Probably explains why second hand values are more than new retail prices.
As you have a landmark birthday coming up you can have my Timex for £5k.
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As you have a landmark birthday coming up you can have my Timex for £5k.
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Thanks but I’ll pass on that :whistle:
 
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Mrs SG spent all last night showing me ‘alternatives’. But..... it’s not the one I want!
 
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Well I’ve now trawled the length and breadth of the UK and registered on 5 waiting lists.

Now need to teach myself patience and sit back and wait.
 
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Buy a new bike while you wait ;)
Looking at mountain bikes at the moment. Just need to work out where to shoehorn a couple in. Can’t buy one without Mrs SG getting one too.
 
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How would you know how long you've queued for?

[QUOTE 5105061, member: 45"]How will you know how long you've been waiting?[/QUOTE]

Keep up at the back lol. Was already done in post above :laugh:
 

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A friend of a friend wanted to treat himself to a nice watch but hadn't really worked out what kind. He also liked to buy British wherever remotely feasible and so was delighted to find there was indeed a British made watch that might fit the bill, but he couldn't seem to find anyone who sold it. Eventually he got a lead to a jewellers in Bond Street. He was earning good money, and not expecting it to be cheap, so wasn't put off by the location and off he went. He arrived there, pin stripe suited from the office and dinged the doorbell to get let in - it was that sort of place. He asked about the watch - "yes, we do have one. I'll get it from the safe for you to have a look at". He is shown the watch, and comments that it's very nice and the shop guy say "I complement you on your good taste sir; this is undoubtedly the finest timepiece we've ever had in our shop". He's getting a little uncomfortable by now so they spar a little as he tries to ask the price.
"a hundred and thirty four thousand pounds sir". As the phrase goes, he made his excuses and left.

I'm surmising it was made by George Daniels' successor Roger Smith, but that's just a guess
 
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Its all part of the sales technique, limit availability, market the desirability, make it collectable keep the prices high. Its beautiful seeing it in action!
Of course it is and they know they get away with it.

All part of the ‘game’.
 
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