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Riviera Paradise
路I can't get why everyone is raving around Explorer.
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cristos71
路What are we looking at?
Five different versions of the new moon phase?
Black, blue and what else?
Exactly, talk about directly diluting their own exclusivity. At least with the DSOTM saga it is being stretched out over a few years.
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Nobel Prize
路Because everything that current owners complained about has been fixed by Rolex. Definitely an upgrade with the elongated hands and white numerals. The previous stainless 3-6-9 was terrible.
That what would make me hesitate on getting a new one.
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路I guess I was use to both the styling of the 14270 and 114270.
Edit: Never mind. Got it. I think maybe you mean the 1016? The applied lume. Yes in that sense maybe but I just think the all lume numerals in the modern is a bit too much. But I'd have to see it in person. Maybe I'm. Just used to the metal.
Either way fantastic watch and can't wait to see in person.
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Jones in LA
路路Not in LA anymore.Here's a table of projected dates of commercial availability for the watches formally introduced* at Baselworld 2016. These dates are provided by Omega and are naturally subject to change.
Speedmaster Grey Side of the Moon -- Meteorite : June 2016
Speedmaster CK2998 : July 2016
Planet Ocean "Orange", GMT, Chronograph : July 2016
Constellation Small Seconds : October 2016
Globemaster Annual Calendar : October 2016
Planet Ocean "Chocolate" : October 2016
Speedmaster Moonphase : October 2016
*The Aqua Terra Goodplanet GMT was also presented at Baselworld but is already in Botiques. I've seen it myself, and pro golfer Rory McIlroy has been sporting it recently in public.
Speedmaster Grey Side of the Moon -- Meteorite : June 2016
Speedmaster CK2998 : July 2016
Planet Ocean "Orange", GMT, Chronograph : July 2016
Constellation Small Seconds : October 2016
Globemaster Annual Calendar : October 2016
Planet Ocean "Chocolate" : October 2016
Speedmaster Moonphase : October 2016
*The Aqua Terra Goodplanet GMT was also presented at Baselworld but is already in Botiques. I've seen it myself, and pro golfer Rory McIlroy has been sporting it recently in public.
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路The numerical inlays in the 3-6-9?
They look like Lumed in pics but the 14270 and 114270 don't have glowing numerals. In fact, I believe, none of the white gold applied market explorers do. Although some pics look like it but it's a photo illusion.
The original 1016 had lume ( but not metal) that may be your parallel into the return of lume.
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meganfox17
路Hi @Alex_TA
Hi Guys
Just wanted to share my thoughts & add what @Riviera Paradise was saying . I'l leave Calibre 3132 3235 part to Riviera
Leonardo da Vincci & Michelangelo had used Golden Mathematical Ratios of perfect symmetry & so called Divine proportions to paint the Mona Lisa & Sistine Chappel .
This is what @Riviera Paradise is trying to explain to everyone.
Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world NOT because she was this beautiful Hot Sexy Bimbo with 5 kids but because the artwork sketches were mathematically perfect , beautifully proportioned like the Rolexes we were discussing here
Ok . Fast-Forward from the Renaissance period to present Hollywood. Anyone knows why People like Tom Cruise , Brad Pitt, Danzel Washington are among the most attractive , sought after people around ? Apparently they were born with both halves of their faces or hemifacially perfectly proportioned & geometrically elegant
That's exactly how i feel about the latest Rolexes designs !
Hi Guys
Just wanted to share my thoughts & add what @Riviera Paradise was saying . I'l leave Calibre 3132 3235 part to Riviera
Leonardo da Vincci & Michelangelo had used Golden Mathematical Ratios of perfect symmetry & so called Divine proportions to paint the Mona Lisa & Sistine Chappel .
This is what @Riviera Paradise is trying to explain to everyone.
Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world NOT because she was this beautiful Hot Sexy Bimbo with 5 kids but because the artwork sketches were mathematically perfect , beautifully proportioned like the Rolexes we were discussing here
Ok . Fast-Forward from the Renaissance period to present Hollywood. Anyone knows why People like Tom Cruise , Brad Pitt, Danzel Washington are among the most attractive , sought after people around ? Apparently they were born with both halves of their faces or hemifacially perfectly proportioned & geometrically elegant
That's exactly how i feel about the latest Rolexes designs !
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路Hi @Alex_TA
Hi Guys
Just wanted to add what @Riviera Paradise was saying & share my thoughts
Leonardo da Vincci & Michelangelo had used Golden Mathematical Ratios of perfect symmetry & so called Divine proportions to paint the Mona Lisa & Sistine Chappel .
This is what @Riviera Paradise is trying to explain to everyone.
Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world NOT because she was this beautiful Hot Sexy Bimbo with 5 kids but because the artwork sketches were mathematically perfect , beautifully proportioned like the Rolexes we were discussing here
Ok . Fast-Forward from the Renaissance period to present Hollywood. Anyone knows why People like Tom Cruise , Brad Pitt, Danzel Washington are among the most attractive , sought after people around ? Apparently they were born with both halves of their faces or hemifacially perfectly proportioned & geometrically elegant
That's exactly how i feel about the latest Rolexes designs !
And while it is true beauty as perceived by babies and general public does rely on simmetry neither the actors you mention not many others have "perfectly simmetrical" faces or perfectly proportioned. Specially Brad Pit who from a photographic point of view has a rather amorphous face when you look at checks, mouth, lips etc. I'm not sayin he is not attractive or beautiful or hot or photogenic, I'm saying he is actually not proportioned.
there is a difference between pretty and attractive and beautiful and interesting. Sometimes it is the odd bits that make people truly attractive... The scar, or the twisted smile, or the uneven eyes etc.
As for watches for me it's the same I love the simmetry of a no date sub.... But I don't need two crowns in the case to make it happen. I also like the odd Panerai.
Balance and proportion in design does not always mean simmetry and evenness. The date window placement, the difference between hour and minute hands, the lollipop accent On a seconds hand. The accented twelve hour marker or number, the Mercedes hour marker .... Great design fools you into believing you're seeing simmetry, but what you're seeing is balance. Simmetry is ugly in most things.
The Parthenon in Greece appears simmetrical and balanced, but to achieve that the actual stairs, columns and accents are different sizes.
The brain fills the gaps and seeks balance where there is none, but when there is perfect simmetry ( as in a mirror image, the brain normally reacts negatively.
Test it. Fold images or faces you believe are simmetrical in half and see how they are not. Unfold an image that is and see how your brain reacts to a face that is simmetrical.
Find me a watch where all elements are simmetrical and I bet it will look plain. Show me a well balanced watch that seems simmetrical and we can start listing the different balancing components that make you see it that way.
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Alex_TA
路Because we love a perfect elegant design with pedigree and a reliable and accurate calibre馃槈
A lot of watches fit this definition.
I'd rather liked new Daytona if it had AR coating.
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Foo2rama
路路Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...At least we can all agree here that we want one of these.
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Flingit1200s
路ulackfocus probably doesn't........
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meganfox17
路Hi @Nobel Prize
I wholeheartedly agree with you that Great Balance is needed & both halves of the Brain cannot Co-Dominate
When i meant hemifacial features are geometrical symmetrical in attractive people i meant Researchers have actually scientifically captured subjects facial imaging on computer graphics then broken them down into millions of pixels & actually calculated the distance between spatial structures & relationship of geometrical configuration & found amazingly Denzel & Tom Cruise to have almost identical halves. Other celebrities not so. I'm not talking about pimples & amorphous faces .
My reference include Leornardo da Vincci's work & his most famous illustration , the Vitruvian Man
Parthenon Beauty lies in a certain "symmetria" of a ratio of 9 :4 . After all Plutarch in his book.did mention the Greek word for symmetry which is "symmetria" when describing Parthenon
Let's Get Back to the more exciting Baselworld 2016 topic shall we...?
I wholeheartedly agree with you that Great Balance is needed & both halves of the Brain cannot Co-Dominate
When i meant hemifacial features are geometrical symmetrical in attractive people i meant Researchers have actually scientifically captured subjects facial imaging on computer graphics then broken them down into millions of pixels & actually calculated the distance between spatial structures & relationship of geometrical configuration & found amazingly Denzel & Tom Cruise to have almost identical halves. Other celebrities not so. I'm not talking about pimples & amorphous faces .
My reference include Leornardo da Vincci's work & his most famous illustration , the Vitruvian Man
Parthenon Beauty lies in a certain "symmetria" of a ratio of 9 :4 . After all Plutarch in his book.did mention the Greek word for symmetry which is "symmetria" when describing Parthenon
Let's Get Back to the more exciting Baselworld 2016 topic shall we...?
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M'Bob
路Quoting Plutarch? Wow, you're starting to scare me a bit.
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abrod520
路It's as close to "perfect" as you can get with a watch in 2016
I just cannot bring myself to like it. It's close, but the polished surrounds on the numerals and markers bothers me to a ridiculous degree.
IMO, if ever there were a watch that would benefit from a little "faux patina" on the dial lume, this is it.
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路Hi @Nobel Prize
I wholeheartedly agree with you that Great Balance is needed & both halves of the Brain cannot Co-Dominate
When i meant hemifacial features are geometrical symmetrical in attractive people i meant Researchers have actually scientifically captured subjects facial imaging on computer graphics then broken them down into millions of pixels & actually calculated the distance between spatial structures & relationship of geometrical configuration & found amazingly Denzel & Tom Cruise to have almost identical halves. Other celebrities not so. I'm not talking about pimples & amorphous faces .
My reference include Leornardo da Vincci's work & his most famous illustration , the Vitruvian Man
Parthenon Beauty lies in a certain "symmetria" of a ratio of 9 :4 . After all Plutarch in his book.did mention the Greek word for symmetry which is "symmetria" when describing Parthenon
Let's Get Back to the more exciting Baselworld 2016 topic shall we...?
But that there are as many examples of beauty outside of this ratio as inside, although a Baby for example will always be attracted first to the balanced elements (Or I suppose a girl looking at Brad Pitt) but my point is beauty is not on the ratio, or on those distances, but most often on the exception within those ratio's. That is what typically stands out. Ironically watches, specially if they have round dials, almost never fall into any of these ratios...except for example at 10 to 2 (AM or PM) or 2:10 which is why often that is the chosen hand configuration for photography.
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yinzerniner
路I just cannot bring myself to like it. It's close, but the polished surrounds on the numerals and markers bothers me to a ridiculous degree.
IMO, if ever there were a watch that would benefit from a little "faux patina" on the dial lume, this is it.
Somewhat agree, but I think the font choice is what really kills the dial design.
The case proportions are perfect. The font is squat, square-ish and rather technical looking. That's fine for a watch with modern proportions, but the Explorer I has classic proportions. If the text was like that on the old Arabic numeral Subs then I think all could be forgiven -
