16610 LV serials

[Blingtone]

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Here you are Gaijin not very good at this picture lark :) The 'M' was a darker, almost British Racing Green.

[Gaijin]

Originally Posted by Blingtone

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Here you are Gaijin not very good at this picture lark :) The 'M' was a darker, almost British Racing Green.

Thanks Tony. Here is my Z which sadly I sold.

[roklee]

Originally Posted by clock

Which serials are the most sought after or rare, the earlier from '03 or later ones from '10?

Thank you

All are sought after, what matters is the condition of the watch. A mint y serial should be rare.

[My Kids Dad]

With all due respect to your expertise in "Font Management" no product designer would ever send a file in the manner you described.

Whenever someone purchases a font set, they are usually only buying the rights to use the set. Usually only on one or two computers. Copying the font set and supplying it to a printer is copyright infringement. In order for the printer to have access to the original fonts, they’d have to buy their own copy. Gee...I wonder if a company like Rolex would let their design staff throw caution to the wind and let them knowingly violate international copyright laws by send a printer their fonts...nope.

In order to ensure precision, all graphics files would be transmitted in vector file format (in the vernacular of Adobe Illustrator, this is referred to as "outlined"). The 'Rolex' font is a slight variation of Garamond (there are MANY variations of Garamond...Microsoft has one...ITC has one...Adobe has several). Anyone who works with fonts in a product design environment is well aware of slight variations across various type foundries. To even suggest that a company like Rolex, whose entire business is built upon exacting precision, would send files off to a screen printer hoping and praying that the printer had the same version of the font they used is simply ludicrous.

Therefore, every change you see on a dial is, without a doubt, done with careful forethought, knowing that the collectors will take note of them.

Like many on this thread, I realized early on that the 16610LV was destined to be very highly collectable. That's why I bought one of the first ones that was produced and never touched it. (see my 'for sale' listing of my NOS 16610LV "Y' Serial if you wish. It's been 10 years and my wife wants a couple of Eames lounge chairs. Easier to sell the watch and buy a pair of chairs than to listen to her gripe about it. Lucky for me, she only knows about this one watch, not the others I've been slowly accumulating)

For those unfamiliar with vector art files, click here for a very basic explanation.

[newsboy]

Originally Posted by HL65

Nope--only one with lug holes was shot by Rolex for the promo ad.

100% correct

[shou.biao.kuang]

Originally Posted by roklee

All are sought after, what matters is the condition of the watch. A mint y serial should be rare.

Would be even better if it is a "Y" series with "Flat 4" bezel and the papers was dated 2003. Of course from September to December 2003

[shou.biao.kuang]

Originally Posted by My Kids Dad

With all due respect to your expertise in "Font Management" no product designer would ever send a file in the manner you described.

Whenever someone purchases a font set, they are usually only buying the rights to use the set. Usually only on one or two computers. Copying the font set and supplying it to a printer is copyright infringement. In order for the printer to have access to the original fonts, they’d have to buy their own copy. Gee...I wonder if a company like Rolex would let their design staff throw caution to the wind and let them knowingly violate international copyright laws by send a printer their fonts...nope.

In order to ensure precision, all graphics files would be transmitted in vector file format (in the vernacular of Adobe Illustrator, this is referred to as "outlined"). The 'Rolex' font is a slight variation of Garamond (there are MANY variations of Garamond...Microsoft has one...ITC has one...Adobe has several). Anyone who works with fonts in a product design environment is well aware of slight variations across various type foundries. To even suggest that a company like Rolex, whose entire business is built upon exacting precision, would send files off to a screen printer hoping and praying that the printer had the same version of the font they used is simply ludicrous.

Therefore, every change you see on a dial is, without a doubt, done with careful forethought, knowing that the collectors will take note of them.

Like many on this thread, I realized early on that the 16610LV was destined to be very highly collectable. That's why I bought one of the first ones that was produced and never touched it. (see my 'for sale' listing of my NOS 16610LV "Y' Serial if you wish. It's been 10 years and my wife wants a couple of Eames lounge chairs. Easier to sell the watch and buy a pair of chairs than to listen to her gripe about it. Lucky for me, she only knows about this one watch, not the others I've been slowly accumulating)

For those unfamiliar with vector art files, click here for a very basic explanation.

Good explanation on the font management thingy... Thought so too that they were done deliberately rather than by accident, since Rolex is known to be a perfectionist and mistake / error is something they frown on and try to minimize as much as possible.

Oh... I bet your wife won't be reading TRF so 'fess up on what other collectibles you have in your stable !