last year, at a certain AD in Starhill, i was window shopping and bought an Oris for a gift. after paying for the watch and chatting with the salesman and asking about the SS Daytona, he offered me the white 116520 at RM35k. ready stock available at another branch and offered to bring it over in 45mins for me to decide. i told him i'll think about it and RM35k was a little high. he said, if i really wanted it, we could "talk" a bit more. since I wasn't really looking to buy one, i declined.
going into another AD also in Starhill and haggling over a panda TT Daytona, my wife and I watched a salesman doing his "SS Daytona pitch" with a potential buyer who must have been a regular. he was going on about how hard they were to find and he placed a white and black on the table, just "fresh out from the safe" in their plastic carriers. the white was list price, no discount and the black had a premium.
Rolex prices have gone up a little since then but i'm sure there's a deal to be had if you haggle and meet the right salesman.
just a month or so prior to that, I was offered a pre-owned M series white for RM30k. assuming you get a used one at RM30k, add in an RSC service which will likely run around RM3k and you're getting really close to the price of a new watch at retail.
for the price of a new 116520, you could get a very nice pre-owned TT. i know we see all the pre-owned SS asking prices are in the RM30k+ range but who's actually buying them at that price?
bottom line, do you really want a SS or are you buying the hype?
