One for the wish list:
https://professionalwatches.com/2023...rsary-edition/
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One for the wish list:
https://professionalwatches.com/2023...rsary-edition/
Absolutely love that, but $50k is a bit out of budget even if you could find one. Wonder what they will fetch when flipped.
Wonder if the 50k USD is inc tax. POA on the uk which from memory starts about 40k
Going to be interesting.
My lad's at the circuit. I wonder if they have a pop-up shop?
Brequet please take note: it isn’t a dog’s dinner.
And of course it will be unobtainable
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Rolex have a shop at the circuit.
A big shop.
Son went shopping.
Wasn't allowed in.
That’s quite a looker!
This made me laugh!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gyp
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Saw this on the adverts for the Le Mans coverage, was quite amazed they were doing a special edition for an event - don’t remember that happening in recent times.
Difficult to be enthralled when it’s such a huge whack of money and will be unavailable, even if you do have the funds. It may as well be only available from a boutique on the moon.
On the plus side any Omega special edition thread can never again be bombarded by Rolex fans claiming that Rolex never do special editions.
Think this is the first time rolex have officially done a special/limited edition. Hopefully they don’t carry on with 500 more like other brands.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danstone
I think before this the dblue was as close as they had gotten if you ignore military orders and stamps on dials.
Nice - I'd be up for this in S/S if they adopted a slightly larger case (42-43). I have the daisy but find it too small.
Note, this is not being marketed as an LE, but as an anniversary edition being produced in lower numbers (if one thought that normal S/S sports numbers were not low enough).
There's a certain irony in them releasing this; having renamed the watch for the oh-so-parochial US market, it seems odd for them to go back to their pre-Daytona roots (while maintaining that Daytona name). I've always felt it was a shame that Rolex dropped the Le Mans moniker. Perhaps the current Rolex management agrees with me...
It’s going to be £43,300 here in the UK.Quote:
Originally Posted by wileeeeeey
May as well be £4.33. I enquired and was given the polite version of STFU.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gareth-W
I think anyone getting one will probably be called and asked if they’d like one. If you have to ask it’s a no.
I thought that open/display case backs were frowned upon by Rolex fans?
I don’t think anyone would object to an OEM one - the previous ones would be third-party wouldn’t they?Quote:
Originally Posted by theancientmariner
I think they have got a bit mixed up... is it a Daytona (name of a race circuit) or a Le Mans (another name of a race circuit).?How can it be both? Strange - I can understand them making a sister to the Daytona and calling it the Le Mans, but combining both names is just weird.
The Rolex Cellini Prince had an OEM display caseback.Quote:
Originally Posted by thenikjones
https://images.grayandsons.com/media.../w523242_d.jpg
I suspect in their eyes the Daytona name has transcended from a race circuit name to a product name owned by Rolex ... i.e. their product has become bigger and better know than the race circuit after which it is named ... some people probably don't even know the origins of the name Daytona. Google ranks the watch higher than the circuit after which it is named.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kairos
As mentioned above, the original name for this Rolex chronograph was Le Mans. Renamed the following year for the US market, who didn't appear to have a clue about Le Mans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kairos
And an awful lot of other things.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Broussard
The new ‘23 Platinum Daytona models also have the open case back to show the new 4131 movement.Quote:
Originally Posted by theancientmariner
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2d9b1a1dc7.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Gareth-W
A friend of mine had just been allocated one of the new Daytonas.
Does allocated mine he is on the list, has a delivery date or has taken delivery ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Space Traveller
My understanding is that no new 126 reference Daytonas will land until September this year. Another reason why a few 116’s have still filtered through despite it being months after Watches and Wonders.Quote:
Originally Posted by joe narvey
Lovely, I was tempted to buy one of this range on SC a few years agoQuote:
Originally Posted by jwg663
Proves my point - this was OEM and no-one complained about it/looked down on it.
only one model in the current range and I guess the most expensive one?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gareth-W
Yes, plus this Le Mans Edition in White Gold too.Quote:
Originally Posted by theancientmariner