... I think I can safely state that online dealers with that sum of watches in stock are not too common. Additionally, a well-assorted brick-and-mortar dealer of several brands normally has a substantially higher number of watches in stock, twice to three times the number quoted is not unusual. Finally, too many online dealers unfortunately do not make clear which watches they have in stock and which ones they have to order themselves, pretending a larger stock they actually have.
By no means I want to ignore the merits of certain (grey market) online dealers. We are talking about large sums of money here, and it is only logical that we try to make the best use of it. But not all fish in the pond taste good, as my dear Kung Fu master in the monastery, which I called my home for thirtyfive years, used to say. And after fifty years of mussle-farming in the Outer Hebrides I made the experience that a shiny shell may also contain a rotten flesh ...
Marcus