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| New Rolex Deepsea D-Blue Dial (with price) | Rate Topic |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 5th, 2014 12:31 am |
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oagaspar Site Founder 
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Rolex Deepsea D-Blue Dial (with price) By Frank Geelen BREAKING: Rolex just showed the highly anticipated novelty on their website and Facebook page: the Rolex Deepsea D-Blue Dial. Earlier tonight we’ve seen the first leaked photo of this Deepsea with a blue to black gradient dial. First reactions of forums were not really positive, to put it mildly. No new case and bracelet material, the new Rolex Deepsea D-Blue Dial is a normal Deepsea ref. 116660 with the known black Cerachrom bezel, blue Chromalight luminescence and a different dial. The new Deepsea is a tribute to James Cameron’s historic solo dive to the deepest point in the ocean. As Rolex state themselves say, the dial shows a deep blue to pitch-black gradient that is “reminiscent of the ocean’s twilight zone, where the last trickle of light from the surface disappears into the abyss.” The word “DEEPSEA” on the new dial has the very same colour as the green submersible in which James Cameron dove to a staggering depth of 10,908 metres, the deepest point on our planet.  Unconfirmed messages state the retail price will be € 10.150 Euros. Check the Rolex website here for more info about the Rolex Deepsea. We’ll update this article once we had a good night rest. For now we leave you with some more imagines and we’re looking forward to reading your responses!       
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| Posted: Tue Aug 5th, 2014 02:39 am |
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bigrustypig 3T WIS 
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Thanks, Oscar. I think another forum has informally nicknamed this the "Deepseaweed". IMHO, it looks just average and the gradient dial quickly loses its distinction once the price is reckoned with. Nothing really new. I would have personally preferred a blue dial and blue bezel. If it came out that way, I think many more WIS would shoot it down. I would rather keep my bucks for the new SDc even if it looks a tad small. But then again that's just me.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 5th, 2014 08:44 am |
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oagaspar Site Founder
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I personally like this version...blue dial is awesome in person(local AD has one) and that splash of neon green lettering is unusual and more modern for Rolex...in person it looks much better imho,but at $16000. I'm not sure I would bite over the DSSD...
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| Posted: Tue Aug 5th, 2014 07:35 pm |
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bigrustypig 3T WIS
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oagaspar wrote:I personally like this version...blue dial is awesome in person(local AD has one) and that splash of neon green lettering is unusual and more modern for Rolex...in person it looks much better imho,but at $16000. I'm not sure I would bite over the DSSD... Thanks for the share and the price indication, O. My AD where I am doesn't have it yet so I guess I will have to wait a bit more before I can see it. Like you, 16,000 bucks seems a bit over what I think it should be. But knowing Rolex, they have researched this and they know the price will be just a stretch over what its target market always wants to pay.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 5th, 2014 08:12 pm |
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stew77 Admin 
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I like everything about it but the price! The increase over the regular DSSD is too much to rationalize, but I'd be getting carried away if I started talking rationale!  (Agree with Jeff's great comment too...Rolex knows what the market will pay versus the supply they are providing...they will no-doubt sell them all).As Jeff also mentioned, an all blue dial/blue bezel would be sweet!...an all blue dial with black bezel wouldn't look bad either for that matter. I like the dial lettering symmetry that results from moving DEEPSEA from top-dial to bottom-dial versus the original, and the green text is really good looking IMO (agree with Oscar, adds a more modern flare).
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| Posted: Wed Aug 6th, 2014 02:07 pm |
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Skipdawg 3T WIS 
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What a beauty! Yo Santa! lol
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