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Old 21 March 2019, 02:25 AM   #691
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Haven't read this entire thread, but I think someone is trolling RPR. Trolling him hard. Sending him fake photos like this to make him look like a fool when the real announcement tomorrow has none of these watches.

Based on his claim he got an anonymous email sent to him today with this "release," someone is trolling RPR to make him look like a fool tomorrow so no one will take him seriously again. That is my prediction.

This just doesn't feel right to me.

I was wrong.
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Old 21 March 2019, 02:29 AM   #692
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I guess he got a little too much hate but does not seem like a likeable guy from peoples interactions with him. We have to give him that he has an inside source though.
Probably not an inside Rolex source. More likely someone who works at the print shop that did the catalogs. Or someone who went through the trash at the print shop.
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Old 21 March 2019, 03:12 AM   #693
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Just woke up here Down Under to see that Mr.Stahl was bang on.

I think a few members here owe him an apology.
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Old 21 March 2019, 03:14 AM   #694
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Probably not an inside Rolex source. More likely someone who works at the print shop that did the catalogs. Or someone who went through the trash at the print shop.
Either way Rolex is not the secret society that its perceived to be. Rolex just got owned by RPR.
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Old 21 March 2019, 03:27 AM   #695
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So why was there so much anger yesterday?

I mean frothy anger, not just annoyance...

Dude was right. Moving on to the watches now.
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Old 21 March 2019, 04:48 AM   #696
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I was wrong.
Was this all a bad Dream?
Cant still believe this releases
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Old 21 March 2019, 05:07 AM   #697
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Just woke up here Down Under to see that Mr.Stahl was bang on.

I think a few members here owe him an apology.


You mean the forum elitists who laughed and called some of us names for making the sacrilegious mistake of entertaining the idea that RPR might be right? Fat chance.
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Old 21 March 2019, 05:58 AM   #698
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Rolex Passion Report has posted new watches. Yacht-Master 42mm, TT Sea Dweller, and a White Gold GMT.
Man. I can’t believe Rolex passion report was so spot on.
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Old 21 March 2019, 10:11 AM   #699
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Kind of glad I did not open my mouth yesterday when I saw pictures of the new releases: they were so disappointing, I thought for sure he had to be wrong.
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Old 21 March 2019, 10:16 AM   #700
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Glad I didn’t comment one way or the other.
Man was right.
Bazinga!
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Old 21 March 2019, 01:06 PM   #701
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It was quite obvious that the leaks were real. We all knew it deep down inside. Everyone was in denial and calling it fake because we didn't want to believe that this was all that Rolex brought out for Basel World 2019
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Old 21 March 2019, 01:09 PM   #702
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i guess the leaks were bang on.
not super impressed, a jubilee on the gmt, and you call that a new watch???

looks good, but too much hype....for very little
Uses the same dial as the blro too. Rolex can sell the same cookie with little change.
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Old 21 March 2019, 01:19 PM   #703
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It was quite obvious that the leaks were real. We all knew it deep down inside. Everyone was in denial and calling it fake because we didn't want to believe that this was all that Rolex brought out for Basel World 2019
Honestly, I wasn't sure what to make of it. I knew there was a possibility the initial leaked photos were real, and was hopeful they weren't, for the exact reasons you say. But it wasn't that black-and-white for me. For one, I actually did have trouble believing Rolex would use such mismatched hands on the YM42, and thought it was possible someone put together a really hacky rendering. I also began to question what was going on when Philipp then started putting out his own bogus mock-ups. So while I admit I had a sinking feeling in my stomach that the leaks might have been real, I wasn't convinced either way until the official press release hit.
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Old 21 March 2019, 02:12 PM   #704
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I wonder if there would have been this much backlash if RPR didn't leak the info out early??
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Old 21 March 2019, 02:54 PM   #705
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I wonder if there would have been this much backlash if RPR didn't leak the info out early??
In the grand scheme of things, it hardly has any impact beyond a bunch of social media nonsense.

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Old 21 March 2019, 02:59 PM   #706
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It was quite obvious that the leaks were real. We all knew it deep down inside. Everyone was in denial and calling it fake because we didn't want to believe that this was all that Rolex brought out for Basel World 2019
The fact he was wrong in his earlier prediction about the BLNR and other watches being cancelled and then doing an about face made it more annoying to me than doubting him.

I also felt releasing private info only ONE day before Rolex would do it was in bad taste.

If he does it again next year, there is no saying he is 100% right again. I would not bank on what he says.

For Rolex, they have a bigger problem. They have a mole in their organization compromising sensitive info. I am quite sure they didnt want RPR making the new release announcement for them.
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Old 21 March 2019, 07:50 PM   #707
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have you guys seen the post on revolution watch about the new releases? the following blogging b#tch fight on insta stories between wei koh and PS is pure popcorn
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Old 21 March 2019, 11:29 PM   #708
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have you guys seen the post on revolution watch about the new releases? the following blogging b#tch fight on insta stories between wei koh and PS is pure popcorn


There was a whole thread about it. Now closed.


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Old 22 March 2019, 12:33 AM   #709
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have you guys seen the post on revolution watch about the new releases? the following blogging b#tch fight on insta stories between wei koh and PS is pure popcorn
not Way Cool.
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Old 22 March 2019, 12:45 AM   #710
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Forgetting the moral aspect which we can argue forever, and I am against the leak, the quality of the picks was bad and hurt his brand and Rolex brand.

No one who is sane would release those bad photos to the world, it made the release look fake. This point has no argument, you cannot release bad shots. Who posts bad shots on Instagram or SM, it makes no sense.




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