Rolex Baselworld teaser - guesses?
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13m said:
More blingy jewellery from Rolex. I will stick to the pre-ceramic era stuff thank you.
Likewise.I do like the white gold ceramic 'Pepsi' GMT....a lot, however, price wise, its beyond even thinking about it, and even if I could, I think its considerable heft might make me think twice anyway.
The closest I've got to thinking, "I'd buy that" of a new Rolex, is the rose gold Yatchmaster with the Oysterflex bracelet...but again, even ignoring the massive cost, I'm not 100% sold on the too blingy, polished rose gold case etc. If it was good old fashioned Rolex brushed finish, I think I'd be in the "I want that camp". Perhaps then its just as well its polished as I can say, "Nah, not for me"
jshell said:
8 1/2, seemingly. Cyclops totally breaks the heritage, but I guess people don't care for that so much these days...
Wowzer...! You take a year or two off the watches and they go even more nuts!I'd like to see one in the flesh. Love the lack of cyclops on my SD but have grown to love my Sub Date and GMTII.
Would like to thin the collection down to 1 and this could be it but I'm not 100% sold.
dom9 said:
Wowzer...! You take a year or two off the watches and they go even more nuts!
I'd like to see one in the flesh. Love the lack of cyclops on my SD but have grown to love my Sub Date and GMTII.
Would like to thin the collection down to 1 and this could be it but I'm not 100% sold.
You need to try a 43mm on dom, I nearly bought a couple of Tudor BBBs unseen but had a sneaky suspicion it'd be too big, low and behold when I got my hands on one it looked ridiculous. The Sea Dweller has the extra thickness on top of that as well I guess.I'd like to see one in the flesh. Love the lack of cyclops on my SD but have grown to love my Sub Date and GMTII.
Would like to thin the collection down to 1 and this could be it but I'm not 100% sold.
If you have a Sea Dweller, especially a 16600 I'd sit on that for a while as the heat on these could drag them up, not that I'd turn down one of these but it would simply be as an investment (which is rather sad in itself).
Yeah, that's some good logic there and my SD is a 16600, which I love.
I did own a DSSD a few years back and that was 'too big', which is why it was sold.
I assume the new SD is thinner though and the bracelet/ lugs better proportioned?
I certainly wouldn't want to pay 'overs' for one and I am guessing any list is now enormous!
Perhaps it'll take some of the heat out of the ceramic, 'normal' SD market or have they already dropped?
Hmmm... Just looked at Iconic and almost £8k!
http://www.iconicwatches.co.uk/rolex-sea-dweller-4...
Makes the red seem 'good value' at only a few hundred quid more!
I did own a DSSD a few years back and that was 'too big', which is why it was sold.
I assume the new SD is thinner though and the bracelet/ lugs better proportioned?
I certainly wouldn't want to pay 'overs' for one and I am guessing any list is now enormous!
Perhaps it'll take some of the heat out of the ceramic, 'normal' SD market or have they already dropped?
Hmmm... Just looked at Iconic and almost £8k!
http://www.iconicwatches.co.uk/rolex-sea-dweller-4...
Makes the red seem 'good value' at only a few hundred quid more!
I can't imagine any serious diver ever wearing this for a dive. The original SD was designed for saturation mixed gas by commercial divers who have to spend hours in a decompression chamber (Helium release is irrelevant in recreational diving) who all now use dive computers to calculate their DC periods.
Too big to wear with long sleeves. And unless you have forearms the size of tree trunks will be too heavy and make you walk lop-sided!
I can see prices of pre-Ceramic SD's soaring after this clunking tank.
Too big to wear with long sleeves. And unless you have forearms the size of tree trunks will be too heavy and make you walk lop-sided!
I can see prices of pre-Ceramic SD's soaring after this clunking tank.
SirSquidalot said:
Well i was wrong about the smart watch! Have to say i've really gone off new rolex's, looks like i bought a 16600 SD at the right time!
How are the values on those? I bough a new V series (last of the 16600s) about a year ago and not really bonded with it. I might trade it in for something I will wear more.Spent a couple days at Baselworld last year. Great town, but the show itself is the most absurdly snobby event you ever did see. And top of the snob absurdity was Rolex. Staff refusing to give out biz cards to many visitors, while some staff would only talk to people through relayed messages via their assistants.
13m said:
How are the values on those? I bough a new V series (last of the 16600s) about a year ago and not really bonded with it. I might trade it in for something I will wear more.
Seem to be on the up. I paid £4100 for my f series with box and papers in 2015.Some later models are getting towards £5500 but overall mine seems to be worth £4500 minimum.13m said:
SirSquidalot said:
Well i was wrong about the smart watch! Have to say i've really gone off new rolex's, looks like i bought a 16600 SD at the right time!
How are the values on those? I bough a new V series (last of the 16600s) about a year ago and not really bonded with it. I might trade it in for something I will wear more.jshell said:
13m said:
SirSquidalot said:
Well i was wrong about the smart watch! Have to say i've really gone off new rolex's, looks like i bought a 16600 SD at the right time!
How are the values on those? I bough a new V series (last of the 16600s) about a year ago and not really bonded with it. I might trade it in for something I will wear more.Gassing Station | Watches | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff