43mm is chunky, only way youll know if it's too big for you is to try it on at the AD and walk away if you feel it's too big for you.After being on the list for over a year, I got the call from my Rolex AD. I wanted a Submariner or Daytona (Daytona is basically never going to happen) two tone. The AD is holding a Sea-Dweller for me to pick up tomorrow. It is basically a Sub on steroids & I'm concerned it will be too big & heavy for my 7in. wrist. Anyone familiar with it? Thoughts on it as compared to a Sub? Concerned if I don't take this one that the AD is offering, that at 77 years old I will never get a Rolex.
I passed on the watch without looking at it. I was not in love with the Sea-Dweller & knew it was not a forever watch for me & looking at resales appears very likely that I would loose money by flipping the watch. I realize you should not buy a watch as an investment, but if you do not plan to keep it for the long run, resale value would be important to me. The secondary market has had a significant correction lately. My AD was fine with my decision.
Seems to be very much a growing problem in London (Around Mayfair etc). People having high end watches taken at knife point or followed home and mugged there. I wonder to what extent it is junkies and how much is stolen to order to some extent. The artificial shortages of rolexs etc in part to blame too i guess. Maybe the global slow down and second hand market easing up will reduce this pressure - but i guess if people have gotten 'skilled' at stealing easily transportable trinkets worth £000s then it will continue.
Would you consider the 40mm Yachtmaster instead? I'm actually putting myself on a wait list for one of those instead of a Sub
Have never considered it. May have to have my AD add it to my list.Would you consider the 40mm Yachtmaster instead? I'm actually putting myself on a wait list for one of those instead of a Sub
Wow, amazing Yatch MasterWhile not a 40 mm, I like my Yachtmaster II (1 of 100 to celebrate 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal), although it does make my Daytona look almost effeminate.
How long is the waiting list?I would sooner have the Yacht master (YM) than a Submariner personally, having owned both over the years.
The case is less bulky, more rounded and comfortable to wear. Also far less common.
It was originally designed to replace the Submariner for Rolex.
I am currently thinking of getting another, a Slate YM (pic 1) and am on the wait list.
I did have the original platinum 40mm YM decades ago, which I managed to smash (pic 2). Those platinum dials are not cheap!
The platinum dial version was also not very legible either to my eyes, so it got sold.
My wife still has the 35mm version (pic 3).
My only real issue is that the platinum bezels can scratch quite easily. But I would be less hard on a watch nowadays.
Longer than the GTS ST wait.
It was about a couple of years wait with spend history at the dealers, but the Rolex market has been rammed full of speculators / flippers since 2016.
