I don’t think so, at least 4 people on this little sub forum have bought from ADs.
Go on watch forums and people are picking them up every day, admittedly they have to wait for them. Rolex sell every professional model they make so they are out there, but you won’t see them in shop windows, I think that ship sailed about 5 years ago.
There is a thread elsewhere running right now called ‘How long do you have to wait’
People are waiting different times but most are getting a watch eventually.
I learned to drive in an early land rover, when I was 12.
We had to open the under screen vents so I could see a bit.
It had the fuel filler under the drivers seat “cushion”.
It was brilliant off road but the farm Ford Anglia was much, much, much better on the road.
Same here but it was the Army, the Royal Signals was the younger brother of the army so used to get all the hand me downs from the regiments that had money. Ours was a horrible 30 year old mk1 that was solely for teaching, you could turn the wheel 45 degrees either way without changing direction. It used to have a crappy little petrol engine that filled the cab with petrol and exhaust fumes.
When I went to do my driving test the civi examiner laughed and straight away said “ahh you’re one the army lads”
I really don’t get seiko, mostly because I see the cheap mechanical ones that people bought for £100 wear them out by not servicing them in 30 years. Then I get them and they are fucked, any quote I give is more than buying a new equivalent and people usually bin them. If they go to seiko they never get serviced either, even the new ones. Movements in bin new movement in.
However…
Grand seiko is very very different. This quartz one came in for a battery. The finish on the dial and hands is better than Rolex. The quartz movement can be adjusted and I got this one to less than 0.5 seconds a month. It’s probably better than that, but no quartz analysers are accurate enough to tell.
