Was thinking the same thing. All those questions and threads and more are asked on this forum.
Info to TRF from tine to time. I can’t stand it, not because of the posts, but because of the actual cluttered and disorganized look of the forum itself. Besides, after a few years here it almost feels to me like having a conversation with familiar faces and personalities.
I’m sure that would happen anywhere if you stick around but for me this forum satisfies all my need for digital social interaction, and for that matter, watch interaction.
As for Rolex? Also a very tired argument. Rolex has been a status simple for years and, as such, been very much at the front of douche display.... but, just because I don’t buy a watch just because HODINKEE tells me it’s cool, I also don’t stay away from a watch because somebody else thinks is not. I have about 9 Rolex watches between vintage and modern and I love them. They’re well made and designed and actually less conspicuous than other brands I have. A DJ41 is extremely low key and as simple as an AT, in fact, size aside, the DJ line has been unchanged in design an intent for about half a century. How is that design now letting people down and a “change of brand” is a very weird thing to me.
A sub is simpler and less obtrusive than a PO, at 40mm and withba slim profile it really remains a classic. A no date ceramic sub is very very close to a 14060m whichbin turn is very close to a 5512 or 5513 in design and feel..... how is this a change that justifies stating the brand is now corrupted and no longer true to self? and explorer is not a watch that jumps off the wrist.
In other words, next to other brands Rolex has minimal changes in design in their flagship watches.... they’re really not changing much, it’s YOUR perception of the brand based on social influence that is changing.
The watches are just as great, are we?
if Bond goes back to Rolex will it become a cool manly tool watch again?
Ps. Yes, there are some hideous models at Rolex.... but so are there on any other brand including our beloved Omega.
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