I Bought a $100,000 Rolex Platinum Daytona (At 21 Years Old)

[Music] i need to know everything who in the world and where i need everything trust me i hear what you're saying but i like it's new what you're telling me i'm curious george i hop in the porsche five and a horse i'm ready for war i'm coming for throws to turn to a ghost i need to know everything now you be surprised that the info you get is by letting them talk so i'm letting them talk gotta keep quiet maneuvering signs to let them in chalk up their body [Music] um and there was a defect

with the watch and apparently from the thousands literally thousands of watches that you know my my guy had a rolex a point of reference of the thousands of watches that he sold over the past decade that he's worked there this is the only defect they've ever had so that's promising so basically yeah they just have to get a replacement for it um yeah a bit odd but like then again you know i'd rather that it happens now than like uh you know me leaving with the watch and then it has an error within and it

looks like it's my fault or whatever plus i mean like it's you know you're dealing with rolex like their customer support is yeah top notch um but yeah i guess i'm gonna have to wait a little longer for the platinum daytona so ladies and gentlemen here we are three days later after i paid for the platinum daytona obviously there was basically there was some weird mix-up uh as i said my point of reference rolex said that in the eight years that he's worked there you know sold thousands of watches uh nothing like this has ever

ever happened before basically it's the just a final link that kind of folds over so you have like the micro adjustment there was something just a little off with it so they had to get a replacement piece but thankfully it took less than 24 hours so the next day i picked up the watch i'm not gonna have won this a couple times and just haven't had time to get around to recording so yeah let's go ahead and unbox it obviously the platinum daytona coming in at 60 000 pounds there are different boxes that you get

with rolexes like just the regular ones you get with like your steel pieces you get a slightly bigger one with gold pieces and then this is sort of the largest box that they do i'm gonna be honest just in general rolex is um i would say by far the worst when it comes to packaging you know this is a 60 000 pound wash if you compare this to uh patek philippe if you compare this to obviously richard mill is like on a totally different level yeah richard mill definitely has the best packaging in my opinion

so they're number one when it comes to the box and also just everything you get with it they give you branded richard miller headphones and just like they throw in so much stuff in there it's super cool but um after that i'd say it's 100 patek philippe then uh audemars piguet um jaeger le cout um vacheron some of these other brands i'm actually not entirely sure what their box are but like rolex really lags behind and honestly with more expensive pieces like this i would have loved if they'd just done something special like even with

that um even with ap sometimes they'll have their watches on little watch winders like within the box it's i don't know i just maybe it's also just because i've opened so many rolex boxes by this point i know for some people this looks like super premium but like honestly guys this is pretty cheap so this is what the inside looks like there's this little flap right here and this just has my warranty card some paperwork etc etc um thing with this box is basically you can make into like a little jewelry box as you can

see you open that flap open right here here i've just got one of the swing tags and the pricing so this watch costs 6 650 pounds you can see right here one extra link and apart from that the main star of the show is this right here this right here is the platinum daytona so i already love this watch more than i thought i would and i think and as it currently stands i'd say this is probably my favorite piece in my collection now platinum is i think about twice as heavy as a gold pieces

so if you think about like steel and you compare that to like a rose gold piece and then you compare that to like a platinum piece guys this is honestly genuinely very heavy and i remember the first time i ever wore a platinum or tridon platinum uh i was like yeah there's there's no chance in hell i will ever own a platinum piece like this is uncomfortable weirdly enough now i find it actually pretty comfortable um i have quite large wrists and you know it doesn't really feel like an issue but this watch right here

really is one of those if you know you know watches and it's just one of those uh you know understated watches there's a lot of stuff in my collection that i know i just won't be wearing when i'm 40 or 50 to be honest when i'm i'd say probably even in my early 30s i probably just get to a point where like i don't want any rose gold pieces like i just want to be super tame and i will just say in general i do actually like rose gold and i guess it also depends on

your skin tone uh rose gold works well my skin tone but i guess my point is i don't know at the age of 45 whether i'll be wearing my rose gold royal oak tourbillon or my richard miller rm30 with a baby blue strap you know what i mean whereas this is just such a classic timeless watch i said for most people and even me 18 months ago i would not know that this is platinum like i would have just thought okay cool it's a steel watch the and you know the retail price difference between this

and a steel is you know the steel is around i think 10 and a half grand this is 60 and a half grand grant granted the steel literally goes for like double its retail uh in the market and this right now is sitting about same in the market as it is retail you know this is not really one of those flipper watches yeah as i said just this ice blue dial is is beautiful it's the entire thing is mesmerizing even in terms of the bezel um initially if you look on the website it can look

like this quite garish sort of brown but in person or almost looks like black in a lot of lighting and then sometimes you know you'll realize okay this is brown and you know what can i say it's a daytona as you guys know like daytona is one of the most timeless classic uh classy watches and then to have a watch of that caliber and and to do it in platinum is as i said it's one of those if you know you know watches and it's one of those like you know you see some of the

platinum daytona and you're like yeah you're moving different i think i've told you guys this funny story before last year i was on a date with this girl and um you know i was wearing a respectable watch back then i was wearing my rose gold royal oak obviously now i have the tourbillon back then it was just you know the regular no complication or anything like that you know solid piece market value around 40 45 000 pounds you know respectable anyways this girl comes in wearing a platinum daytona and i was just blown away i

mean when a girl wears a daytona full swap it's super attractive just because it's like this girl knows a thing or two about watches and i don't know there's just something about a woman with a daytona it's just like you know i just don't think you can beat it but then for her to be wearing platinum like [Music] i'm not gonna lie i felt a little demasculated for a second and uh the other crazy thing is i said for me like i wear this and i'm like okay yeah this is i know this is a

heavy watch but like i don't mind for a girl to wear this watch like i don't know how her left shoulder wasn't just like blown up to like bodybuilder size and then her right side was just normal so yeah ever since then that was kind of like the first time i properly looked at the platinum daytona because i'm not gonna lie like i spent more time looking at that watch on the date than i did the girl i mean hey they were both works of art but i was definitely quite drawn in by that uh

by that ice blue dial okay so yeah ladies and gentlemen this is the new addition to the watch collection this is one of those pieces that i mean i've told you guys this before anything i get at retail for me and i'll touch on this briefly because we're about to hop into a watch specific q a but like any watch i get a retail i'm never gonna sell because i am a genuine collector i've got watch books on all four floors of my house i want the expensive pieces i want the cheap pieces i want

if i'm looking at older watches or vintage watches i care if it's a a serial or a b cereal royal oak you know i've really started to build up my collection and i see myself having a 100 200 watch collection now obviously you know for me what i love about watches is you can just stick them in the safety deposit box which which 90 of my collection is always in and there's no running cost to them they can just sit there and they're a great asset and a great investment so as i said there's a

watch where like i never see myself getting rid of it unlike some of the other pieces that i've gotten at market value so i'm not afraid to you know then shift them if the price is right or you know i just don't have a connection with that watch anymore so yeah i'm definitely very very very happy with this watch i'd say right now this is probably my favorite watch that i own actually so ladies and gents to end things off i'm gonna go ahead and do a watch specific q a i asked on my instagram

which if you're not following me i'll get tristan to leave that on the screen now and i just picked out a couple questions so we'll start off with thoughts on footballers and rappers icing out uh rare and prestigious watches i am 100 against icing out watches now i say against i would advise against it you do whatever you want you know if you want to waste your money you know fine by me but genuinely i think if you're gonna get some ice on your watches get a factory ice oh and honestly i'm not opposed to

that at some point in my life i want a rainbow daytona and that's factory ice even some of the there's a rolex gmt with like blue sapphires and a bit of ice i believe like that one's really cool as well you know far far down the line i definitely get uh a nautilus factory ice there's even some knowledges with like really cool like blue baguette bezels and stuff like that anything that's factory i'm not against because you're still retaining some of the value of that watch here's the issue it's when you take a watch that's

iced you know let's say for example you see this a lot with nautiluses people will spend you know to get a steel knowledge you're gonna have to spend 50 000 pounds and then you're gonna have to spend another 15 000 pounds to then ice it out so you're in for 65 and once you ice it it's actually the value actually goes down not up so you know then the watch might be worth you know between 42 and 45 000. so it's just such a dumb financial investment honestly guys i'm not against ice or diamonds or

whatever i just think if you're gonna do it do a factory it's gonna be done better and you're gonna retain the value of the watch next question is is it really worth buying so many watches genuinely curious well well there's two things that i want to address with this question first things first is guys there are collectors for everything there's people that collect uh guns there's people that collect uh baseball cards there's p there's people that collect handbags there's you know there's literally people that collect coins like there's collectors of everything you know i mean

and i think when you're a collector you're just passionate about something you're infatuated and like it's your heart's calling for me ever since i got my first timex expedition when i was eight years old i had an interest in watches so you know at the end of the day i think someone that for example or you you see sneaker heads as an another example like if you're a sneaker head like you just love it so it doesn't make sense to have 40 pairs of uh jordans probably not but you love it and at the end

of the day especially if you work hard you need some sort of outlet so that's number one now if i was collecting in something that didn't really retain value especially after i use it like for example sneakers obviously sneakers retain value but obviously once you give it a lot of wear and tear they're really hard to restore like if i was a sneaker head and i had you know a really big sneaker collection i would be tentative to obviously wear the sneakers because i don't want to devalue my collection that is not the case with

watches with watches you can wear it you can throw them around you can get scratches because then they when you go to sell them they're always going to be polished or at least the watch dealers that i work with so you know if it's steel you can basically polish steel about as many times as you want if it's gold after the second time it you know it is going to lose some of its sharpness i actually don't really know about platinum but long story short i don't baby my watchers in the slightest like like i

genuinely don't care about getting scratches on them this or that i don't baby them for me a watch has a heart and a watch is there to be worn so i wear my watches and as i said i don't worry about the value of it because i know that no matter what scratch or unless you really mess the watch up but i'm just talking cosmetic stuff when it goes time to sell it it's gonna get polished anyways so all those imperfections are are gonna be gone by the time that your time that the new buyer

has it and also you need to understand that like guys polishing genuinely when you get a watch back from polishing or a polisher has done its thing it genuinely looks brand new like you could not tell ever you could never tell that it was warm before so so basically what i'm trying to say here is obviously i have a lot of budget assigned to my watches you know for me like really there is no budget depending on the watch for me you know the way that i look at things is it's all dependent on how

much will i lose when i go to sell it if i was to if i was to take all the watches i've gotten in the last 18 months and i was just to sell all of them right now i would pocket probably around 100 grand now granted a lot of those pieces i got at retail so it's like you know i don't want to you know i don't really want to include that there but if if i was to take all the watches that i bought at market value aka i had to pay the you

know the actual market price i didn't buy it direct from the brand now they were brand new watches but i went to you know watch club or bloombar watches or any other quote-unquote gray market which i really don't like that term but um any of those dealers as i said i paid market price for it if i was just to take that skew of it i'd still make around 30 grand so i can understand people thinking like you know why do you need that many watches for me it's like why not for me it's a

great store of value it's something i get to actually use and enjoy unlike for example vintage cars obviously if you have a vintage car you don't want to run up the miles on it you know whereas a vintage watch or a modern watch you know watches in general it's fine you can give them the wear and tear as i said especially these modern watches and then when it comes time to sell it's not an issue because all of it will be handled when you go to sell the watch so i guess so as i said

for me if this was a hobby where you know i'm bleeding money my budget for watches would not be what it is but it's but it's simply the fact that i not only retain value in my watchers i actually make a decent side income now it's not like anything that i plan but it just so happens to be that way from my watches i can give you an example the two watches that i've sold this year my rose gold royal look that i bought last year for 31.5k i sold that this year for 42k and

then i actually bought a 5711r rose gold nautilus i bought that i bought that for 76 and a half thousand pounds brand new box papers you know literally from the day before i bought that september first and then sold it mid october for 82 and a half thousand pounds so i looked at that watch and i was like this watch is gonna climb up to the mid 80s which is basically what it did so i basically got to wear a hundred thousand dollar watch for four weeks and then make money on it as i said

that's why i look at watches the way i do for me the ones i buy at retail it's definitely a calculated decision my philosophy with watches is i will not buy a watch if i take a hit on it when i sell it like that that is just my rule whether i'm buying retail or market value that's just my rule and knowing that i give myself free rein to buy whatever i want within reason also last year or so i've been sitting cash heavy now going into 2021 there's quite a lot of investments that i'm

making actually as we speak so now obviously i need i need to siphon off funds for that prior to that i was seeing cash heavy so i said rather than just like having the cash sit there do nothing i would rather put it to good use and you know just indulge in a hobby next question is if you could keep only one watch for the rest of your life i would either go for a steel daytona definitely wouldn't go platinum just because it's it's just too heavy to be your daily beater so either a steel

daytona or i say it now but i don't know if you know i'd have the same answer in 15 years but a rose gold nautilus i know that the obvious decision would be a steal naulis but like i just i've owned that watch actually technically i still own that watch i'm in the process of selling it at the moment and yeah i just never formed a connection with it barely wore that watch i just think it's a bit janky whereas the 5711 r the rose gold version is just literally perfection so yeah i'd say those

two watches next question is ever considered pivoting to watch your niche for sma if so best outreach method yeah 100 last year i was literally on the cusp of pivoting my entire agency to work with gray market dealers as i said now last minute i decided not to do it just because i've you know spent so many years building up our our reputation and name primarily within the info product space as well as some really heavy hitting case studies with econ businesses so basically my heart kind of got the best of me last year when

i was thinking about this and i decided look there's no point in throwing away everything you've worked for because it's basically like starting fresh so decide not to do it but i think it is an amazing niche and one that people really aren't tapping into enough next question is please explain how value of these watches appreciate so there's two ways really um well first things first like as i said there's retail and then there's market value i have a very good relationship with rolex where i've gotten you know a lot of the pieces that i've

wanted and also i've brought them a lot of clients funnily enough a lot of my clients to the agency i've had four agency clients that have bought watches from rolex and my point of reference there and i you know i i send them a lot of referrals actually of of not people who are coming in to ask for a pepsi or this that like people were actually buying real watches you know people who are buying the rose gold pieces the platinum pieces etc etc we make our clients pretty good money at the agency and you

know and you know i'm always banging on about watches so that ends up bleeding through the clients and as i said we've had quite a few clients actually then go on to buy so yeah that's retail that's you know you're buying at the retail price now you could buy at the retail price you know let's say 10 grand for example daytona you could buy a daytona for 10 grand and the market value is 20 grand literally double list um or you could buy a watch for 10 grand and the market value is like six and

a half so that's technically one way that people can make money from watches if they get harder to get pieces and they end up flipping them obviously you make some money that way as i said that doesn't really interest me because i know that anytime that i'm buying a piece at retail for example a pepsi or a rose gold day-date or you know one of these pieces from rolex directly i'm buying it at the cheapest price i could ever get it at and i know that if i was to ever sell it i would just

want it back at a later date and then i have to pay market value for it again so selling watches that i get at retail that i'm you know i'm not really involved in that but obviously it is good to know that like if worst case scenario which i don't ever intend on anything coming close to that but like it's good to know that i still have that store of wealth there and that and then all the pieces i got at retail which i said i have no intention of selling ever but literally i'm talking

everything goes to [ __ ] there's some big catastrophe like just you know unforeseen events there is a big store of wealth there that i would have made a lot of money on as well so that's one side of things but as i said that just sits idle because that's just part of my long-term collection there's the other side of it where i'm looking at pieces in the market and i'm going ah i think this is undervalued and i think that i could get this piece wear it and then actually make money when i go

to sell it for example like that rose gold nautilus that was literally my full intention going into it so yeah those are two ways and the last final way is just getting a watch and just holding on to it for a very extensive amount of time you know the watch game has changed a lot over the last few years and i think that it's only going to get bigger because rather than people investing in art or fine wines or vintage cars i think a lot of people who aren't even into watches are looking at watches

as like a great store of wealth and i said they're so easy like you know there's watchers selling at auction now you look at something like the paul newman daytona ended up selling for 17 million i think there was a patek fleet that sold for 30 million earlier this year so you've got this store of wealth and think about how tiny the watch and how easy it is to store away rather than instead like a vintage car and like all the nightmares that come with that it's such low maintenance and the thing with fine art

is it fine art it's really hard to get any sort of comparables it's more based off of like what will what will the person pay not market comps whereas for example if you get a tourbillon richard mill and you know they've only ever made 30 pieces of that i guarantee if you go on chrono 24 right now you're gonna see a couple of them there and you're gonna start to get some market comps so yeah that's kind of like an overview of uh how that works and the final question is what's the best entry watch

for a teenager to start the collection around five thousand pounds in your opinion i would definitely say the rolex explorer it's fif i think it's rare right around like fifty five hundred or five thousand pounds something like that definitely no more than that so rolex explorer because look steel piece uh 39 mil i believe um and you have a rolex like and then you have a steel rolex i mean like you cannot go wrong that is a watch that will serve you for the rest of your life and you've got a rolex right so i'd

say uh that and i don't think they're super hard to pick up like you shouldn't have a tough time like you know maybe you might have to wait a couple weeks or a couple months just because it is a steel rolex um but i don't think it should be it should be super hard uh to pick one of those up i've never tried or even asked about it it's not a watch i know much about uh the demand etc so i'd say either that or uh omega speedmaster that watch is just honestly like it's it

genuinely is in so many ways uh so beautiful and in some ways like i appreciate it just as much if not even more some in some aspects as the daytona obviously i'd still take a daytona any day but yeah i'd say 100 omega speedmaster like that is just that's also a watch where someone like i would i would be sat at a restaurant next to someone with a speedmaster and i'd be like i'd be like yo that's a beautiful speedmaster also there's so many different variations you can get it's such a conversation starter etc etc

and it's one of those ultras that i said where you don't have to spend a lot of money to be kind of quote unquote respected as a watch enthusiast just because that watch is such class so yeah ladies and gentlemen hope you guys enjoyed this video of me picking up the rolex daytona platinum ice blue dial and also going ahead and answering some of your questions you know just sharing what i've learned over the past i mean it's crazy it's only been like 18 months of serious collecting you know i got my rose gold royal

oak last may and then that and that sent things off into a spiral of all the pateks rolex's richard mille etc etc so yeah it's been 18 months but it's been a fun journey so i hope all that has helped i can't stop looking at my wrist right now i love this watch so much i'll see you guys in the next video