You're too late. You should have given it to him when he became a man at 13. What is wrong with you?

My cousins got them at 18 and they were mugged in college for them.

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Anonymous wrote:About a month ago I stopped into the jeweler our family does business with to put my name on a list for a Rolex. The plan was to give it to my son on his 16th birthday in March of 2027. Friends told me it can take a while to get one. Out of the blue I got a call this weekend. The watch arrived Friday afternoon. Am I crazy to give it to him for his 15th birthday?

This must be a joke. I hope it is.

Well ... you don't have to put your "name on a list for a Rolex." You can walk into Lenkersdorfer at the mall and come out with one. No one is going to tell you "it can take quite a while to get one." It isn't a teal crocodile Birkin or something. So yeah, either a joke or invented for some purpose other than laughs.

Those Rolex watches in the case aren’t for sale. Give it a shot. Let us know how it works out. Maybe they’ll sell you an Explorer, or an Air King, but a Submariner gains about $2,000 in value as soon as you walk out of the store with it.

I don't know how this works but my DH who has an IWC, Blancpain, Panerai and a few others (don't ask me, I am not into watches...) always kind of scorned entry level Rolex but they have to be making something these "watch guys" are now into because I have had to suffer outside multiple stores in NYC where it is basically a watch man convention hoping to get one and seems like you can't unless you have a significant buy history with them previously. So, idk seems stupid as hell to me like the Birkin thing, but there is something beyond the entry level luxury watch thing these "connoisseurs " are looking for. I could ask but I care so little I don't care to hear a watch saga.

Oh, I'd never in a million years buy one for a teen. I regularly remind my kids they are poor. They live at the mercy of our benevolence and have everything one could possibly need and most of what they want. They can fund their Rolex fund but it will be a cold day in hell before we gift something like that for existing.

A Garmin that is ^

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Anonymous wrote:Only on DCUM would anyone ask this. Normal people can't afford a Rolex for their kids. DCUM on average has much more income than typical US families.

DCUM ***Claims*** they have more income - it's an anon forum and people are making up crap constantly.

Get him a Garmin and go run with him.

Our child literally asked for one for Xmas 😩

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Anonymous wrote:About a month ago I stopped into the jeweler our family does business with to put my name on a list for a Rolex. The plan was to give it to my son on his 16th birthday in March of 2027. Friends told me it can take a while to get one. Out of the blue I got a call this weekend. The watch arrived Friday afternoon. Am I crazy to give it to him for his 15th birthday?

Ask your country club friends. If it’s a submariner that pairs well with his Ferrari.

If it’s just an oyster or explorer no one will care - pairs well with a wannabe used bmw or Mercedes.

Pretty much this. Everyone wears Apple Watch if anything. My husband prefers Cartier or Panerai when he wants to show off. Rolex of kind of meh.

Is your husband a giant douche

Cartier is for females. Sorry

My male cousin has a Cartier watch that he is obsessed with. It was his "engagement watch" from his husband, though.

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Anonymous wrote:About a month ago I stopped into the jeweler our family does business with to put my name on a list for a Rolex. The plan was to give it to my son on his 16th birthday in March of 2027. Friends told me it can take a while to get one. Out of the blue I got a call this weekend. The watch arrived Friday afternoon. Am I crazy to give it to him for his 15th birthday?

This must be a joke. I hope it is.

Well ... you don't have to put your "name on a list for a Rolex." You can walk into Lenkersdorfer at the mall and come out with one. No one is going to tell you "it can take quite a while to get one." It isn't a teal crocodile Birkin or something. So yeah, either a joke or invented for some purpose other than laughs.

Those Rolex watches in the case aren’t for sale. Give it a shot. Let us know how it works out. Maybe they’ll sell you an Explorer, or an Air King, but a Submariner gains about $2,000 in value as soon as you walk out of the store with it.

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Anonymous wrote:About a month ago I stopped into the jeweler our family does business with to put my name on a list for a Rolex. The plan was to give it to my son on his 16th birthday in March of 2027. Friends told me it can take a while to get one. Out of the blue I got a call this weekend. The watch arrived Friday afternoon. Am I crazy to give it to him for his 15th birthday?

Ask your country club friends. If it’s a submariner that pairs well with his Ferrari.

If it’s just an oyster or explorer no one will care - pairs well with a wannabe used bmw or Mercedes.

Pretty much this. Everyone wears Apple Watch if anything. My husband prefers Cartier or Panerai when he wants to show off. Rolex of kind of meh.

Is your husband a giant douche

Cartier is for females. Sorry

My male cousin has a Cartier watch that he is obsessed with. It was his "engagement watch" from his husband, though.

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Anonymous wrote:About a month ago I stopped into the jeweler our family does business with to put my name on a list for a Rolex. The plan was to give it to my son on his 16th birthday in March of 2027. Friends told me it can take a while to get one. Out of the blue I got a call this weekend. The watch arrived Friday afternoon. Am I crazy to give it to him for his 15th birthday?

Ask your country club friends. If it’s a submariner that pairs well with his Ferrari.

If it’s just an oyster or explorer no one will care - pairs well with a wannabe used bmw or Mercedes.

Pretty much this. Everyone wears Apple Watch if anything. My husband prefers Cartier or Panerai when he wants to show off. Rolex of kind of meh.

Is your husband a giant douche

Cartier is for females. Sorry

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Anonymous wrote:About a month ago I stopped into the jeweler our family does business with to put my name on a list for a Rolex. The plan was to give it to my son on his 16th birthday in March of 2027. Friends told me it can take a while to get one. Out of the blue I got a call this weekend. The watch arrived Friday afternoon. Am I crazy to give it to him for his 15th birthday?

This must be a joke. I hope it is.

Well ... you don't have to put your "name on a list for a Rolex." You can walk into Lenkersdorfer at the mall and come out with one. No one is going to tell you "it can take quite a while to get one." It isn't a teal crocodile Birkin or something. So yeah, either a joke or invented for some purpose other than laughs.

Anonymous wrote:My parents gave me a fake Rolex from Tijuana at that age. Girl. This was in the early 90s. I loved it.

YESSSSSS. Same here, but late 80s. I super loved it. I actually have a real one now, but I'm 50+. I doubt anyone who interacts with me thinks the real one is real or pays any attention at all.

We have a cheap Timex watch that has lasted 35+ years, still going strong.

Anonymous wrote:About a month ago I stopped into the jeweler our family does business with to put my name on a list for a Rolex. The plan was to give it to my son on his 16th birthday in March of 2027. Friends told me it can take a while to get one. Out of the blue I got a call this weekend. The watch arrived Friday afternoon. Am I crazy to give it to him for his 15th birthday?

This must be a joke. I hope it is.

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Anonymous wrote:Only on DCUM would anyone ask this. Normal people can't afford a Rolex for their kids. DCUM on average has much more income than typical US families.

DCUM ***Claims*** they have more income - it's an anon forum and people are making up crap constantly.

Get him a Garmin and go run with him.

+1000

So much fiction here on DCUM. More fiction than truth. The bulk of it involves people pretending to be rich successful professionals with a DC at Harvard and a DC at Stanford -- as they type away at us from their crumbling Springfield colonial while screaming at their 34 year old son who flunked out of NOVA and just got fired from Uber Eats. Typing away at us with stuff like "Rolex? Only strivers wear Rolex!!!!" Lol. Ok. You bought that community college flunk-out a Vacheron for graduation? Must have been high school, given that he can't even manage NOVA. And he's wearing it around Springfield while delivering people's Burger King orders? Lol. Sure. We know you just googled "What's a fancier watch than Rolex?" when you saw this thread.

I think it’s insane, frankly. College graduation? Sure.