Rolex planned for new releases that will NOT be in short supply and no one will want to buy them. Genius! Making a full 180 degree turn.

 

Omega fan boys have more to brag about for the new Seamasters 300m releases. Omega killed it by skipping Rolex’s palm fronds. Wow it’s like Rolex giving Omega a 5 run advantage in the 9th with Rolex batting with 2 strikes and 2 outs.

 

A two tone Explorer is not an Explorer vintage or new. It’s like adding bling to dark rims on a 911. Yikes. Rolex lost me at least and I own 2.

 

I had considered myself a one Rolex kinda guy, but the 36mm explorer has me rethinking that.

I would like to be able to try one on, think about it, and be able to purchase at my leisure.

The waitlist game is not for me.

 

mate, are we even talking about the same company? The one that’s been doing the following for over 40 years already:




I mean, what do you think “tool watch guys” were saying in 1980 about a TT submariner with jeweled dial!?

TBH, a merely TT Explorer is among the least “adding bling to dark rims on a 911” thing they’ve done ...

 

If you are trying to prove these designs are all gawd awful, consider it a success!

 

This is the first thing we agree on when it comes to Rolex. Although the just-released palm fronds a.k.a. marijuana dial single-handedly projects the same without a single rhinestone or ounce of precious metal.

 

I can't find one of those I don't like....

 

Jaja touche!

 

Well, I wasn’t really trying to get into my own views on these (but )

Instead, I was mostly intending to only highlight the strange narrative around the TT Explorer that goes something like “I can’t believe Rolex would bling out a tool watch!? That’s the last straw!!”

so, both and !

 

I am just happy to see Rolex releasing a 36mm version in steel. Will be a great first Rolex purchase and was happy to hear that even as a first purchase my dealer can get me one next month

 

Feel any different RE ‘these have similar levels of crazy’ when I remind that the palm fronds MSRP is only $7K while the bottom-most jeweled Submariner from 2018 was MSRP close-enough-for-grenades to $100k, and the also 2018 rainbow Daytona was MSRP north of $100k. (And on the 2ndary, there aren’t enough commas in my iPhone to write the prices)

 

Have to pick up palm fronds a couple of days a week in the yard and I’m still laughing at that video....

 

While pure speculation on my part, I think the Palm Fronds is really a tribute to many states legalizing marijuana and Rolex marketing to the drug dealer/user base of their clientele. After all, they can't actually put marijuana on the dial so they put something that looks close. It absolutely makes no sense that Rolex would choose to create a palm fronds dial this year until you see it under those conditions.

 

Your brain gives me the munchies.

 

Rolex is using a palm frond motif to approximate marijuana leaves for its important “drug dealer/user” clientele?

Is that what the gold and silver versions are, too?









And I guess the also-released “fluted dial” is really representing pills, for the pill-popping set, right?





Green dials have been hot for several years, and in the design world tropical leaf motifs are extraordinarily trendy (peaking 3 years ago - but no surprise a big watch company is only getting to it now).

 

Can you please explain why they can't put MJ on the dial?

 

Yeah, don't think so.

 

I don't think that's the image they want to promote? Even though lots of drug dealers buy and aspire to buy Rollies. For example:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wdbzxy/drug-dealer-instagram-bath-of-money