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by al_borland 614 days ago
>they will get serviced BY Rolex.

Gray market sales exist and Rolex will not service anything bought through the gray market, rather than directly from an AD. This leads to a lot of non-Rolex watchmakers who can work on Rolex. If they also do some check to see if they happened to be registered or stolen, I’m not sure.

I think it would be a bigger issue for less popular watches with more complicated movements, where the local watchmaker would be in over their head.

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> Rolex will not service anything bought through the gray market, rather than directly from an AD.

Do you have a source for this? I was not under the impression that this was the case. I know they won't service any watch that's been altered or modified from factory specs.