In my experience buying watches over the years, Jomashops built-in wishlist system is pretty useless for actual price alerts. It mostly just sends generic marketing spam rather than pinging you the second a watch drops. Honestly, they don't have a dedicated, reliable price drop button on the site. I've tried many ways to track their stuff because their pricing fluctuates daily. Your best bet is to check the site manually every few days, especially around weekends when they run flash sales. Also, always look for active coupon codes, they almost always have a code for twenty or fifty bucks off sitting around. I'd suggest checking out PriceDropCatch if you want to see if that sale price is actually a good deal or just marketing.

^ This. Also, having bought dozens of watches over the years, I can confirm Jomashops internal system is a dead end. Everyone here is spot on about the wishlist being a waste of time. A while back, I was trying to snag a specific tool watch for my collection. The price fluctuated by almost a hundred bucks week to week, and I almost bought it too early out of frustration. Manually checking was just draining. I eventually stopped relying on their site and started using third-party trackers. Now I just let PriceDropCatch monitor the page and ping me when the price hits my target. It saved me about seventy bucks on the one I got. Since you have a hard deadline, my advice is to set your alert slightly above rock-bottom so you actually get the ping in time to ship it.

Just saw this thread and wanted to chime in because I went through this exact same headache last year when I was hunting for a Seiko Sumo on a tight budget. I tried waiting for Jomashop to alert me, but like the first reply said, their system is basically useless. So I had to get a bit creative to save those extra bucks. Here is how I ended up doing it:

• I used a free visual monitor tool called Visualping. You just paste the Jomashop product page URL, select the area of the page where the price is displayed, and it emails you when those pixels change. It worked perfectly for me and caught a $45 drop on the Seiko.
• Another trick is to constantly check their homepage banners. Jomashop does these flash sales that they dont advertise on the product pages, but they will have a code like GOOGLE20 or FLASH50 that works at checkout. Always try typing random codes at checkout anyway, sometimes they just work.
• Don't buy on a Monday. In my experience watching their cycles, their price drops usually kick in late Thursday or Friday for the weekend promos, then they creep back up by Tuesday. It takes a little manual checking even with the trackers, but you can definitely snag that Hamilton under your $500 budget if you watch it for a week or two.