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22 March 2018, 11:50 AM | #1 |
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Hodinkee GMT Pepsi
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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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22 March 2018, 12:31 PM | #3 |
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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.
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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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22 March 2018, 12:47 PM | #6 |
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Common “complaint”. These colors approximate the original bakelite GMT bezel, not the aluminum one.
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They (the colours) seem to have a lot more love now they are more affordable. |
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22 March 2018, 09:41 PM | #9 |
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True; gotta hold tight of the last real nice Pepsi GMT, the 16710..
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23 March 2018, 10:33 AM | #10 |
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I agree...
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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. |
22 March 2018, 12:18 PM | #13 |
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I’m liking it more now after seeing that.
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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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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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Wow can’t wait!
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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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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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22 March 2018, 08:21 PM | #22 |
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Next year it might come with an oyster option.
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22 March 2018, 11:26 PM | #23 |
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You can hear the excitement from her voice
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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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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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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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22 March 2018, 09:53 PM | #28 | |
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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”... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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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. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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But enough people have seen the current WG Pepsi to confirm the Pinkish red color, no? |
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