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25 March 2018, 12:16 AM | #1891 |
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7 April 2018, 11:14 PM | #1892 |
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The Explorer II is my favorite for travel.
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8 April 2018, 12:55 AM | #1893 |
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8 April 2018, 01:34 AM | #1894 |
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8 April 2018, 05:38 AM | #1895 | |
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Highly recommend the polar. Beautiful white dial and make great pair with white Daytona Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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8 April 2018, 05:43 AM | #1896 | |
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Funny timing—just ordered a polar this morning and was just looking at your posts about the jubilee bracelet on the 16570 a few minutes ago! A Daytona is a few years down the road...this forum is full of too many great, albeit very expensive, ideas :) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Big Congrats and you can’t go wrong with polar. The jubilee bracelet works very well on explorer in my opinion. Must try this combo. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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8 April 2018, 06:08 AM | #1898 | |
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Really does look great—thanks for the motivation on both the Daytona pairing and the jubilee—cheers Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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8 April 2018, 01:10 PM | #1899 |
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Does anyone know why the hour markers on the 42MM black dial and 42MM polar dial are different? If you look closely side by side you will see the outline from the lume is different sizes.
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I was thinking a little more about this and have another theory that may or may not have anything to do with its traditionally lower desirability; it's not a watch anyone ever needed. They say it was designed for spelunkers, but I cannot figure out what specific "need" it was responding to.
The Sub, SD and GMT all represented true innovations in watchmaking, needed in order to allow certain tasks to be completed by divers, pilots and world travelers. They were watches you needed. The Exp. I wasn't exactly that, but did have a similar association (Everest). But not the Explorer II, which feels to me as though it was designed first, with its purpose "assigned" retroactively. When the GMT II was released, but prior to discontinuation of the GMT, Rolex essentially offered a dual and triple timezone version of the same watch, since only one had an independent 12hr hand. Rather than visually identical watches with different movements, perhaps there should have been a "fixed-bezel" version with two zones (the Exp. II) and a triple zone version (the GMT II). |
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If I was to guess, I would guess that the white gold hour markers are the same, but since the paint on the outside of the markers on the white dial takes up some space, there's slightly less room for lume in the middle.
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Well said. I also think that since the EXii doesn't really have the signature Rolex 'look' that it is a turn off for some as well. I had one for about 6 weeks and ended up trading it for a Sub. Figured out that I was/am more of a diver watch fan at heart. |
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This is interesting to me, as it hits upon precisely why I flipped a GMT II (the beloved BLNR) for the black 16570. I found that I was effectively never turning the bezel, and the talk of three time zones seemed like overkill (it’s just my opinion, don’t shoot me) It also explains why the GMT Master (the later 16700s) are the GMTs I’m most interested in. But I still (I know, I’m nuts) prefer the explorer II because I really like the 3185 with separate hour jumping. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Also -to give you all a laugh - I’ve just been on holiday, and when I’m on a beach I prefer to wear my explorer II on a rubber B. At the hotel breakfast I’m obviously looking out for gents or indeed ladies wearing decent watches, and I spotted an oyster bracelet on a guy a few tables away. The closer I got the more I thought ‘wow that’s a great looking watch, clearly not a sub, in fact none of the ceramics, is it a Daytona? No looks like a brushed steel bezel oh, it’s a black 16570, just like mine.
Only the second I’ve ever seen in the wild. Looked great. Then I remembered I have one on my wrist.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Honestly small percentage need a third time zone and the Exp II is better suited to most. But I’m fine with keeping it under the radar, don’t need a bunch of fanboys on it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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9 April 2018, 05:25 AM | #1907 | |
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Next level under the radar lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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It still looks very “Rolex” to me, because of the unmistakable case shape and bracelet, but I see what you mean. However, I do believe that if the watch had been associated with any truely groundbreaking innovation its look would be as recognized as its color-bezel brethren. |
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Actually, come to think of it, I wonder if this is perhaps why the Daytona was initially so unsuccessful. Sure, the bezel markings were intended specifically for race car drivers, but this was hardly a true game changing innovation on the level of the Sub's water resistance, the SD's gas escape valve or the GMT's second timezone. Race car driving, while exhilarating, is also not on the same level of exploration/discovery as diving, mountain climbing or traveling.
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I’ve got a strange aversion to Daytonas. They ‘look’ absolutely fantastic, but the idea of a complication I would never use, or more correctly, one of the sub dials effectively never turning (does it count hours?) just prevents me wanting one on my wrist. If I did, I’d want the chronograph forever turning! I wonder how many Daytona users do just that, to know that the sub dials are actually turning. I’d be forever worried about them seizing up through never turning.
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The Explorer II will likely be the first Rolex that gets a GID bezel.
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9 April 2018, 09:51 AM | #1915 |
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The Explorer II Enigma
Trully an under the radar watch, specially on black. On Oyster band again!
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But why do you need a GID bezel????????
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9 April 2018, 10:45 AM | #1918 |
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Why wouldn't you want a GID bezel :)
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9 April 2018, 11:45 AM | #1920 |
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The Explorer II wore and looked smaller than all the other 40mm Rolex Sport models. The slope down and the not catchy serrated edge bezel made it under radar as well.
White Dial is considered RARE in my Rolex Sport model watches! Go POLAR both M serials , 3186 movements . |
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