Today we're gonna be doing a watch collection update.
Now this particular watch has a story behind it and I believe it's one of the most overlooked
Rolexes in the collection.
And that watch is the GMT Pepsi in white gold.
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Alright, so the GMT 116719 is one of those models that I feel is just kind of been overlooked.
I just feel like not a lot people buy them.
I guess cuz they want, you know, I guess they want a yellow gold watch already for that
price, but the thing about it is is that I find it so rare and unique.
I definitely like it better than the white gold Sub and now with this whole Pepsi with
the jubilee.
I don't know.
I don't really care much about the jubilee guys.
I rather have it on a vintage model.
But now with the whole up prices of the jubilee where they're already almost like 20 grand,
I feel like it's gotten a lot of importance to that white gold GMT.
Now, if you didn't know, it's discontinued in the black dial.
They're not gonna make it anymore.
Then they came out with the blue dial, which was a run of pretty much one year.
Whatever!
That one the flames, the whole force is burning on that one because they're quote on quote
going for forty thousand.
I don't really see it, but whatever.
So which leads me to the story of this GMT.
This particular GMT that I have here is gonna be the third time that I buy this exact watch.
And it's a pretty cool story and I'm gonna share it with you.
So right off the back, I've always kind of liked this watch.
It's always been one of those watches that I said that I want to keep for the permanent
collection and what happened was that I had a client and a really good friend of mine.
This guy's really sick into watches, OK?
He comes in one day and he does a trade-in with me and he wants to trade it because he
was sacrificing several pieces for one of those 40th anniversary Nautiluses.
So I took it in on trade.
He had bought it brand new.
His name is on the card and he kind of needed a premium for it just because we were trying
to bridge a gap of such a large number.
I couldn't really get too many people to stock it at that moment because the whole craze
hadn't really happened yet and I took a risk and I said, you know what, I'll buy it.
I'll stock it.
At that moment I wasn't really sure if I was gonna keep it for the collection or perhaps
maybe just flip the watch, so I took a chance on it and I bought it.
What happens was that I ended up wearing the watch a bit at the store, never putting it
for sale, never polishing or nothing, right?
And then I have another really good friend of mine which is probably one of my also biggest
clients comes in and says, �What's up with that white gold Pepsi?
I want it!� I said, �Man, look, I don't yet if I really want to sell it,� but he's
a good guy to sell it to, so I said, �You know what?
Just take the watch.� We hammered out a price and we closed the deal.
So the watch was done.
It went from one good client and friend to another good client and friend.
He enjoyed the heck out of that watch, OK, because he's one of those guys that really
can appreciate the model.
So we fast-forward to not too long ago.
The watch comes back again.
Again!
The piece has to be sacrificed and it's on the chopping block because this time, this
other guy wants to make a move and go for a blue face 5980 in steel.
Again he needs a premium for it and says, �I think the watches went up a little bit,�
and I said, �You know what?
I'll more than happily take the watch back again.�
Second time I buy the watch.
I get it back again.
This time, I'm wearing the watch for only three days and I go have lunch with a friend
of mine, another friend, but this is actually a very long term friend.
He was a friend before even a client, OK?
And then he says the watch and he goes, �I want it.� I said, �Listen, it's not for
sale.
I think I'm gonna keep it this time, you know.� �Oh common!
I want it!
I want it!� I said, �Man, it's not for sale.� So he says, �Eric, sell me the
watch.
I want it today,� and I said, �Look, I'm gonna give it to you at this price, but the
only way that I'm gonna sell you this watch is with the contingency that you have to sell
it back to me, alright?�
So we shook on it.
We had a deal and before I knew it, my best friend swindles me out of the watch again!
The third time!
So I'm like, alright!
Fast-forward, the guy enjoys the watch.
This guy trades watches all the time.
Then he gets it in his head he wants to buy a Richard Mille and once again the watch is
for sale.
This moment was actually a little bit of a bad moment for me just because, I don't know,
it was just random, I was kind of like you know, we were on a mission to come up with
the money and I had to think about it for a long week and finally I decided that I was
gonna have to sacrifice some pieces, which I don't even want to discuss to tell you the
truth, because I still might be able to get it back.
And I ended up buying the watch, OK?
And this is gonna be now the third time that I buy this watch and I think that it's certain
that this time for real I'm gonna keep it for the permanent collection.
This time I'm not letting it go.
I almost lost the watch by the way, OK, because this guy was like dead-ass, he was determined
to just liquidate all his watches for this RM55 Bubba Watson and I almost had to liquidate
it to a dealer, but I don't know man, sometimes when you got that gut feeling and it tells
you not to sell something.
I just really felt like I was gonna regret it and it's actually been really hard to even
see them.
I haven't even seen those watches lately, so.
I like it.
I think it's one of the most understated and overlooked sports model, so I'm pretty excited.
I'm not gonna lie.
I think for long term it was a good choice.
But unpolished, complete set.
Has everything, box, papers, hand tags, the whole thing.
The guy bought it brand new.
My original client, the guy that first bought it, bought it brand new at the boutique in
Chicago.
Bought it in Chicago, full retail, probably one of the last ones too.
Bought it full retail man, unbelievable.
So like pretty much now I have, now I have a Pepsi from 2001, a think that's what my
year is right now, I can't really remember, the one I did not too long ago a video on
and then now I have the white gold one, which is probably really the way to go right now.
So now I got those two and then I'm cooking up another one, another Pepsi that maybe we'll
be talking about soon.
That one's gonna be cool to talk about.
So I get the opportunity to wear a lot of different watches, but this particular watch,
believe it or not, gets almost the most attention by the watch guys.
You know, they're always gonna comment something about it.
They'll always gonna say, �Hey, that's the white gold Pepsi.� I mean, it's hard to
find.
So that's kind of an aspect that I kind of like.
To the people that don't know, obviously is just gonna look like no big deal, maybe just
a stainless steel watch, but there's a special touch about this watch and now that it's pretty
much Pepsi season and everyone's going crazy about the Pepsis, but yeah I'm really excited
about it and I think that this is one that I'm gonna keep for a long time because I just
feel that any of the other watches that can be sacrificed, can be replaced easier in today's
market.
Another Pepsi that I'm looking for is I'm trying to find a 1967 GMT Pepsi to match the
year of my Chevelle.
You get old.
You start coming up with stupid ideas, but I think that would be pretty cool if I can
actually get a 1967 because, I don't know, I already have the 1982 birth Sub.
I already have the Pepsi and the Coke on a 90's version, nineties/two-thousands version
and it would be a nice touch just to get a really old one, like a 1967 it would be ideal.
So don't be surprised if I get one soon.
So this watch collecting thing is always like I said, a �journey� and the last thing
that I expected was that was gonna have this whole journey with this particular watch and
that's what kind of makes it special and why I said it's time to sacrifice and keep it.
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My name is Eric, this is Watch Your Style!