New Deepsea Challenge just announced!

[askdanny]

Rolex just dropped a new model today.

My full analysis here. Many firsts.

https://www.rolexmagazine.com/2022/1...llenge-in.html

-First Sea-Dweller with no date
-First titanium Rolex available to the public
-Highest depth rating of any watch available for sale
-...

[Ironstark]

https://www.rolex.com/?ef_id=CjwKCAj...48!e!!g!!rolex

[JeanValjean14]

meh

[ProfessorWilsdorf]

Seems like a deep sea at first glance, a new Rolex diver is rarely a bad thing. Wonder if the mindless hype will apply to this and if normies will flock to buy one for flexing when they find out this is a proper massive tool watch


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[rmlovett1]

Interesting….I’d love to see the dimensions on this one. Looks pretty bloated in the video, but hard to tell.

Edit….it’s on the configurator…50mm in titanium @ 26k

[ProfessorWilsdorf]

50mm


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[stubim]

Originally Posted by ProfessorWilsdorf

50mm


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Have the blue deep sea at 44, 50 must be huge

[stylinleems]

Seems to be a thick watch @ 23.3mm and states it is available today.

[samson66]

Originally Posted by stylinleems

Seems to be a thick watch @ 23.3mm and states it is available today.

And only 50mm across too. Yikes that's a big boy!

[stark1]

Seems you gotta click through page after page of product presentation before discovering the $26,000 price tag. That's pretty steep.

[HMHM]

As much as I applaud Rolex for their advance research in diving watches, I’m not sure who this watch is created for other than JC and a few divers themselves. At 50mm it’s HUGE, and at 26K USD it’s ABSURD.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by HMHM

As much as I applaud Rolex for their advance research in diving watches, I’m not sure who this watch is created for other than JC and a few divers themselves. At 50mm it’s HUGE, and at 26K USD it’s ABSURD.

Agree very over kill in the real world the deepest dive on just scuba gear was just over 300m,and again in the real world there have been more men to go to the moon that have passed 300m underwater using scuba gear. Most all recreational divers today would stick max depth around 40m just using air. More experienced divers would dive deeper on different breathing gases than just air.Today some of the depth ratings of many dive watches like the DSSD although a technical achievement the max depth rating will never be used by man or even superman in water. They make them today because they can,and today many buy because on the dial its states mine is bigger than yours. But still great watches with a lot of history IMHO the first DSSD from the 1960s was more of achievement with its depth achieved. Back in those days no computers to design and simulate these extreme depths like they had with the modern Cameron DSSD test. And when saturation divers are using watches with say a HEV they live in a pressurised chamber at the same pressure they are diving in the water breathing a high helium gas mix. And after dive return to the living chamber perhaps for week or more. When they have finished there perhaps weeks of duty the chamber is recompressed slowly to normal surface atmospheric pressure.Now the molecules of the high helium breathing gas are that small they could entre the watch.And as the watch and divers are slowly brought back to surface pressure the gas would expand but any gas in watch escapes though the one way HEV.
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[dannyboy123]

Originally Posted by padi56

Agree very over kill in the real world the deepest dive on just scuba gear was just over 300m,and again in the real world there have been more men to go to the moon that have passed 300m underwater using scuba gear. Most all recreational divers today would stick max depth around 40m just using air. More experienced divers would dive deeper on different breathing gases than just air.Today some of the depth ratings of many dive watches like the DSSD although a technical achievement the max depth rating will never be used by man or even superman in water. They make them today because they can,and today many buy because on the dial its states mine is bigger than yours. But still great watches with a lot of history IMHO the first DSSD from the 1960s was more of achievement with its depth achieved. Back in those days no computers to design and simulate these extreme depths like they had with the modern Cameron DSSD test. And when saturation divers are using watches with say a HEV they live in a pressurised chamber at the same pressure they are diving in the water breathing a high helium gas mix. And after dive return to the living chamber perhaps for week or more. When they have finished there perhaps weeks of duty the chamber is recompressed slowly to normal surface atmospheric pressure.Now the molecules of the high helium breathing gas are that small they could entre the watch.And as the watch and divers are slowly brought back to surface pressure the gas would expand but any gas in watch escapes though the one way HEV.
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What was the depth rating of the 1960s watch? 100m??

[jenniferjanef]

Originally Posted by dannyboy123

What was the depth rating of the 1960s watch? 100m??

10,916 m = 35,814 ft.

[JoeJoeBobo]

Originally Posted by HMHM

As much as I applaud Rolex for their advance research in diving watches, I’m not sure who this watch is created for other than JC and a few divers themselves. At 50mm it’s HUGE, and at 26K USD it’s ABSURD.

Arnold, maybe Sly will have one I bet.

[Andad]

Originally Posted by HMHM

As much as I applaud Rolex for their advance research in diving watches, I’m not sure who this watch is created for other than JC and a few divers themselves. At 50mm it’s HUGE, and at 26K USD it’s ABSURD.

$36750 In Oz?

[double]

Originally Posted by HMHM

As much as I applaud Rolex for their advance research in diving watches, I’m not sure who this watch is created for other than JC and a few divers themselves. At 50mm it’s HUGE, and at 26K USD it’s ABSURD.

It’s created for zero divers as a usable tool watch. It’s a d… measuring contest with Omega and fine by me. Only elite thrill seeking divers go beyond the depth and pressure ratings of a Submariner.

[trackingtime]

they started doing beveling again

[PhilippeD]

Originally Posted by trackingtime

they started doing beveling again

I noticed this too. Seems out of place on this watch.

[trackingtime]

Originally Posted by PhilippeD

I noticed this too. Seems out of place on this watch.

means it might be coming back

waiting for Submariners Ti with such case

[OG1982]

Originally Posted by trackingtime

they started doing beveling again

On a watch so big I suppose they had too!

[eonflux]

Originally Posted by trackingtime

they started doing beveling again

Looks awesome

[brandrea]

Originally Posted by trackingtime

they started doing beveling again

[HK_Expat]

Just cuz you can, doesn’t mean you should….not for me

[GradyPhilpott]

Originally Posted by trackingtime

they started doing beveling again

Chamfer.

[928ktgold]

Originally Posted by trackingtime

they started doing beveling again

Yeah that is nice

[PhilippeD]

9.5mm thick sapphire...wow! And I thought my JC was extreme with 5.5mm.
Not for me though, I'm happy with my 126660 JC!
I'm a big guy, but I don't think even I can pull this off!

I respect the technical aspects of this watch though. Just amazing.

[ProfessorWilsdorf]

TBH its a bit different to what I was expecting to be released today. I was expecting a titanium Yacht Master but we have been given a hardcore pro diver. Im not sure how I feel about rolex using titanium, I am not the biggest fan f the light weight feel it gives. It would be funny if this got hyped up by non watch enthusiasts as it is 50mm.

[jenniferjanef]

Originally Posted by ProfessorWilsdorf

TBH its a bit different to what I was expecting to be released today. I was expecting a titanium Yacht Master but we have been given a hardcore pro diver. Im not sure how I feel about rolex using titanium, I am not the biggest fan f the light weight feel it gives. It would be funny if this got hyped up by non watch enthusiasts as it is 50mm.

It is around 250g in titanium form.. that’s a 40% weight saving compared to stainless steel which will be close to 350g!

[rmlovett1]

4 months ago…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PEkm3Doo2c