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Originally Posted by Carguy87

Rumor has been that since switching to the ceramic bezels the red color has been tough to get to “cook” correctly and come out even. Also the red/blue Blro bezels are said to be more fragile and crack /shatter easier during servicing. If true, this also justifies why AD’s have been getting fewer BLRO’s; those first ceramic bezels were introduced in 2014 which means all those watches are now due for service and hitting the RSC’s. If the watchmakers are cracking /breaking bezels due to the more brittle bezel they likely pulled a bunch of bezels and put them aside for the RSC’s, leaving fewer to go into new watches.

With these issues it would make sense why they haven’t launched another red color way yet

Steve, I’m familiar with the conspiracy theories on the alleged Rolex bezel color conundrum. Some of the stories seem coherent enough to even be believable. Unfortunately, the veracity of the narrative seems to be undermined when the likes of Parnis and Pagani are churning out $100 watches with perfect ceramic bezels in red/blue, black/blue and heaven forbid even black/red.

I don’t have much more to add