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12 April 2008, 09:43 PM | #1 |
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What was Rolex thinking????
Can you even think of a Submariner like this! Maxi Dial - OK but the color is downright Ughh!!
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12 April 2008, 09:44 PM | #2 |
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Gotta agree with you!
This blue looks horrid! I guess Rolex could not get the right blue on the bezel and decided to make a matching dial. Awful looking watch, imho.
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I don't think the Bugatti Blue is too bad and maybe it will grow on you. Maybe they should have stuck to the Cobalt Blue - that would have gone well together.
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12 April 2008, 09:49 PM | #4 |
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Whatever that shade of blue Bugatti or not, it will not appeal to me . If Rolex designers need a bloody shade card - I have plenty here!
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I wonder how long it will be before it gets replaced - assuming, of course, that very few people will buy it. The irony will be, probably, that it will become collectable, no doubt.
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The 'Smurf' is 100% not for me. Hideous
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Maybe you'll have to bite the bullet and get one after all.
You could wear welding goggles in the store, so you don't have to look at it, then throw it in the safe when you get home - for the next 20 years.
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I have seen this watch at basel and the colour looks better in real life than in all pictures i have seen.
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im forced to use it in my line of work and all color matching services, i think rolex should too oh and since im selling them... maybe we should go there |
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Might be something wrong with me, I like it, am I the only one?
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Just chatting to my AD about this watch and he was saying that in person it actually looks good, so lets wait and see before casting it away with the YM II, which if you read previous threads now seems in its own special way to be growing on people....
...and I don't mean like athletes foot
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I think that we should wait for the first live pics of the watch
Ceramic bezels play a lot of tricks to cameras
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I'm colorblind and that blue even looks hideous to me.
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I am color blind too and I would have to agree with Dan.
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Still a Rolex. No matter how against the grain.
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13 April 2008, 12:44 PM | #18 |
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If that colour is close to true it is beyond me how this could make it to production. Of all the comments I've seen on this only one is positive.
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With the maxi dial, the COSC blurb, the cyclops etc soon we wont even be able to see the dial. Too much going on IMHO.
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Once you see it in person you'll like it for it's razor sharp looks and it looks good underwater too.. It's different but not for everyone. It's an eye catcher and will def be a great conversation starter.
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13 April 2008, 12:53 PM | #22 |
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I wonder whether Rolex performs any sort of market surveys for their new designs. I would guess not.
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wow...same colors as the Greek flag....lol...Got to buy one
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Probably they where thinking of greece
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I was shocked by the color when I saw it. Even more shocked when I saw the UK price is within 10 GBP of the w/g DDII?!? Rolex.. you must be joking!
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Famous last words
Quote "I shalln't be buying one" unquote Tony (13.04.08)
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I love it.
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Sorry but I don't like it, it's just too blue. IMO it would have looked much better in a darker shade of blue.
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