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Old 22 March 2018, 11:50 AM   #1
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Hodinkee GMT Pepsi

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Old 22 March 2018, 11:54 AM   #2
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Thanks for posting. So they're confirming the bracelet cannot be switched out for an Oyster.
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Old 22 March 2018, 12:31 PM   #3
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Thanks for posting. So they're confirming the bracelet cannot be switched out for an Oyster.
Yes and that was to be expected I believe. No way Rolex is going to let us switch between Jubilee and Oyster on a modern model. That flexibly flew the coop when they became a luxury goods company.
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Old 22 March 2018, 12:42 PM   #4
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Yes and that was to be expected I believe. No way Rolex is going to let us switch between Jubilee and Oyster on a modern model. That flexibly flew the coop when they became a luxury goods company.
Someone will figure out a way!
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Old 22 March 2018, 11:56 AM   #5
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I just don't like the color of the bezel. The Blue can look purple, itjust doesn't look right to me.
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Old 22 March 2018, 12:47 PM   #6
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I just don't like the color of the bezel. The Blue can look purple, itjust doesn't look right to me.
Common “complaint”. These colors approximate the original bakelite GMT bezel, not the aluminum one.
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Old 22 March 2018, 11:45 PM   #7
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Common “complaint”. These colors approximate the original bakelite GMT bezel, not the aluminum one.
That's not what a lot of people were saying when the same colours came out on the WG BLRO.

They (the colours) seem to have a lot more love now they are more affordable.
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Old 22 March 2018, 06:24 PM   #8
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I just don't like the color of the bezel. The Blue can look purple, itjust doesn't look right to me.
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Old 22 March 2018, 09:41 PM   #9
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I just don't like the color of the bezel. The Blue can look purple, itjust doesn't look right to me.
True; gotta hold tight of the last real nice Pepsi GMT, the 16710..
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Old 23 March 2018, 10:33 AM   #10
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I just don't like the color of the bezel. The Blue can look purple, itjust doesn't look right to me.
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Old 23 March 2018, 11:01 AM   #11
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I just don't like the color of the bezel. The Blue can look purple, itjust doesn't look right to me.
Quick, someone tell Rolex that they used the wrong color! That's purple lol

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Old 22 March 2018, 11:58 AM   #12
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Not really sure who at Hodinkee is writing the scripts for these videos, but they need some work.

Love it or hate it, this thing is going to be hard to get.
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Old 22 March 2018, 12:18 PM   #13
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I’m liking it more now after seeing that.
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Old 22 March 2018, 12:39 PM   #14
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From another video the new GMT’s have a longer hour and minute hand than the previous versions.
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Old 22 March 2018, 12:44 PM   #15
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From another video the new GMT’s have a longer hour and minute hand than the previous versions.
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Old 22 March 2018, 12:48 PM   #16
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Old 22 March 2018, 01:07 PM   #17
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Thanks. The DSSD got longer hands, too. Did the SD43 get longer-proportioned hands last year? It's looking like that's the direction they're heading for the sports models.

Other interesting factoids: Oystersteel is, as we thought, a new name for the same 904L steel they've been using all along; no actual changes occurred to the alloy in the re-naming of it. I was also interested in their description of the redesigned case sides and lugs on the GMT, indicating it's the manufacturing process that "gives the case sides extra shine and sharpens the lugs." That implies they didn't really change the proportions all that much. It looks like the new GMT is a refining of the super-case, rather than a redirection away from it.
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Old 22 March 2018, 12:42 PM   #18
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Wow can’t wait!
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Old 22 March 2018, 12:45 PM   #19
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TBH I do not like the so called blue and red in this model. These colors look weird to me
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Old 22 March 2018, 08:03 PM   #20
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It is nice but i can't help seeing it as pink-purple GMT. Looks like an effort to a faded ole GMT. I still like it but the unedited photos and real life feel of the bezel (seen the WG in real life) is nothing like the photos in the Rolex website. Again i repeat i like the watch and here is a photo with its TT brother which i really like.
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Old 22 March 2018, 09:37 PM   #21
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It is nice but i can't help seeing it as pink-purple GMT. Looks like an effort to a faded ole GMT. I still like it but the unedited photos and real life feel of the bezel (seen the WG in real life) is nothing like the photos in the Rolex website. Again i repeat i like the watch and here is a photo with its TT brother which i really like.
My God! The GMT TT brown/black is perfect to my taste!
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Old 22 March 2018, 08:21 PM   #22
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Next year it might come with an oyster option.
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Old 22 March 2018, 11:26 PM   #23
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Next year it might come with an oyster option.


If it does...it will be an orphan Oyster which would not fit on any other watch.
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Old 22 March 2018, 08:48 PM   #24
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Old 22 March 2018, 09:37 PM   #25
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Anyone notice that the two everrose models, the triangle at 12 on the GMT insert looked screwed up?

And wasn't the 116660 bracelet 21mm, not 20mm?
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Old 22 March 2018, 09:46 PM   #26
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bgnv_dUl...by=misterrolex

James Dowling posted a pic of the underside of the lugs. Anyone with a BLNR able to post a similar picture for comparisson?
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Old 22 March 2018, 09:51 PM   #27
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James Dowling posted a pic of the underside of the lugs. Anyone with a BLNR able to post a similar picture for comparisson?
Here it is for those without instagram (on the top is 126710, on the bottom is a 116710 backside picture)



Honestly, I don't have a GMT but it looks SUPER similar on the underside at first glance to my Sub-C, and the 116610 and 116710 bracelets are interchangeable....so we will see
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Old 22 March 2018, 09:53 PM   #28
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James Dowling posted a pic of the underside of the lugs. Anyone with a BLNR able to post a similar picture for comparisson?


Those pins look high. Even moving them a millimeter or two would make the current endlinks unusable.

I hate to say it but I’d consider an aftermarket brushed oyster that someone designed to fit the new case “countermeasures”...


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Old 22 March 2018, 09:50 PM   #29
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You guys realize that these are crappy photos and videos that haven’t been color corrected and were shot in mixed light right?

There’s a good chance that nobody will get color accurate photos of these at Baselworld.


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Old 22 March 2018, 11:28 PM   #30
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You guys realize that these are crappy photos and videos that haven’t been color corrected and were shot in mixed light right?

There’s a good chance that nobody will get color accurate photos of these at Baselworld.


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But enough people have seen the current WG Pepsi to confirm the Pinkish red color, no?
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