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hugo7
Dammit
It's been a bit of a process. I looked at the current GMT and I just couldn't bring myself to like the Jubilee bracelet, and also (for me) a GMT dial should be able to fade as it lives with you.
The polished oyster centre links put me off the earlier model, so I ended up looking at 16710's, and with that age of watch most have had a polish, which ended up with looking at the NOS 16710 at the Watch Centre on Bond Street.
They came down 5% to £14,300, but I couldn't square that with the watch. Also, they said that they'd pay me £11,000 to buy it back in a year, if the market continues as it is today.
The Submariner, with it's brushed finish, is the least fussy sports/professional watch in the current range, is I think a handsome watch and has undeniable provenance, and when I tried it on I liked it a lot. It's basically allowing me to scratch the Rolex itch, and is a much lower risk method of doing that than a 13 year old GMT. It was originally bought and registered from Rolex last month, so it has four years and eleven months of Rolex warranty, and the dealer I got it from said (if the market doesn't have any huge upsets such as Rolex ramping production) he'd buy it back from me in a year for what I paid him for it today.
If the market does have a huge correction I'll look at a 16710 again then, for now I am enjoying the Submariner.