WTFF!!! Congrats, on vacation in europe, checked almost 10 ad's in 3 countries and 0 gmts, they said the wait is approx 6 years.
Yes, I had a similar mission in Bangkok at Christmas and was generally met by laughter. I have read a few similar stories to mine though with people getting lucky but assumed they were very rare.
The thing seemed to be that they wanted me to be a previous customer, which I was becoming by buying the Reverso and Omega, and not likely to flip it..and I think they felt comfortable I wasn’t planning on doing that. The sales assistant emailed her manager (at a different site) to request approval while I was in the buying protest for the other 2 watches. I really didn’t think I had much chance of getting one soon, certainly not today. She kept saying ‘ I think today is your lucky day’ and stuff like that, to which I thought she was referring to getting the other 2 watches being in stock. 20 minutes later her manager rang and gave the green light. Not sure what this says about wait lists in this shop. Incidentally my initial request was for a Daytona for which she basically ‘no chance, but are there any other SS professional models you’re interested in?’