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Old Jun 4, 2007 | 11:19 pm
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Originally Posted by nmenaker
so, historically singapore has been the best place for walk in and buy a rolex. Cheapest prices anywhere, even more so than the carribean.

In the past, when the euro was more reasonable, europe was fine compared to the US, AND in places like germany where the VAT was 16%, when you got all the VAT back then it was smokin'

today, since the euro is so high, historically so, I cannot imagine anywhere including home country switzerland would offer a reasonable price. It is nice to walk into a Wempe in germany though, get a watch and great service and get the 16% VAT back.

When I lived in Miami, there were many jewely shows where only licensed or retail jewelers were invited, and they had great deals on ALL watches, about 50% of retail and all certified of course, but you gotta find a jeweler to take you in. These shows are in most major cities throughout the year.

I would stay away from ebay, too risky, I have heard of too many scams.

checkout www.timezone.com and their forums, lots of great watch buyers, sellers and users there.
The suggestion to check out timezone.com is a good one. I think given the exchange rates it is going to be very hard to top NY prices. A couple years ago, when the rates were not as low for the dollar as they are now, I was pricing a couple watch brands, although Rolex, and found that on brands like Jaegar and VC the NY prices were not much higher in dollars than the UK number in pounds, so the net difference was great. I did see some pretty competitive prices in Toronto on VC also, there were some aggressive pricing places there and the currency helped also.
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