126710 Pepsi MK3 Bezel! Could it be?

[Jamhot]

My brother & I were traveling through Singapore Airport last month when we stepped into the T3 Rolex store. They have the hot models there for display only. I can tell you for certain that the Mk3 bezel exists. The blue was so rich & dark it almost looked black. My brother thought he was looking at a Coke.

[TempoKing]

One looks like a black/red coke bezel to me ...not the Pepsi blue/red I am used to

[jvb.nc]

i’ve had mine three weeks today and i certainly feel like mine is of the darker ilk. in a lot of lighting it looks black; when it has good lighting it is a beautiful hue of blue, and in direct sunlight i can see the red ceramic underneath the blue around the side of the bezel itself (inside of the bezel close to the crystal).

i think it’s epic.

[Chester01]

I do think Rolex will keep tweaking the colors to get away from the purple look to deeper hues of the red and blue. The pastel bezel on the earlier models was really not a good look and one of the major reasons I prefer the BLNR over Pepsi. But that may change if they can get it darker.

[samson66]

Love that third dial, the darkest. They are finally getting the colors to where I like them. The darker and deeper the blue the better. Just looks classier

[DoctorA]

I’ve seen MKI and MKII side by side and known they exist! I saw a “MKIII separately and it was quite darker!

[Nikrnic]

My wife trying one on at an AD Basel reveal party in april '18

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[mattsrs]

Originally Posted by Nikrnic

My wife trying one on at an AD Basel reveal april '18]

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Do they let you try on watches at Rolex booth at Basel? I thought you can only see then in the case.

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[Mike Jab]

Interesting to see how flawed the QC department at Rolex has become. Unless it has to do with the technique which couldn't produce red bezels before.

[mattsrs]

Originally Posted by Mike Jab

Interesting to see how flawed the QC department at Rolex has become. Unless it has to do with the technique which couldn't produce red bezels before.

There certainly has been some quality issues lately with Rolex. Attached photos is macro shot from BLRO I saw on Horology house YouTube channel. See red paint on GMT hand

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[ap1]

I had hard time differentiating 1 v 2 - three looks best

[Tlon]

Okay, that 3rd dial is really nice, IMHO, and it looks closest to what is on the Rolex site

But more importantly, I'm surprised no one has commented on how freaking awesome the watch looks on the oyster bracelet. A 126710 on a fully brushed oyster bracelet is my current grail watch. Completely envious.

[samson66]

Originally Posted by mattsrs

There certainly has been some quality issues lately with Rolex. Attached photos is macro shot from BLRO I saw on Horology house YouTube channel. See red paint on GMT hand

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Jeeze that's awful. Something is going on with Rolex/Tudor quality control cuz there have been too many issues like this coming up recently.

[Nikrnic]

Originally Posted by mattsrs

Do they let you try on watches at Rolex booth at Basel? I thought you can only see then in the case.

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This was at an AD Basel party in Michigan

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[padi56]

Originally Posted by DoctorA

I’ve seen MKI and MKII side by side and known they exist! I saw a “MKIII separately and it was quite darker!

I just seen a MK1111 which is ever so darker than the quite dark ones,has anyone seen a MK11111 yet.

[georgekart]

Originally Posted by Chadridv

Now There are really only three hypotheses here:

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3. There’s even more than three variations simply because the process of creating the inserts is so unstable, it’s unlikely to get identical color hues.

I go with this. With so many discrepancies and people saying they got MK II early in the production or got MK I late in the production or now MK III, I just think the variation is huge and they're in fact different on a case by case basis simply due to the process.

[dori]

Originally Posted by mattsrs

There certainly has been some quality issues lately with Rolex. Attached photos is macro shot from BLRO I saw on Horology house YouTube channel. See red paint on GMT hand

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Tonight I won’t fall asleep because of this. It’s horrible!!!!!!


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[Syed117]

Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.

If I ever get one, hopefully it will be on the darker side.

Until then, I will continue to cry myself to sleep every night.

[Rashid.bk]

Still comes with the Mk(unbuyable) bezel then.
Usually Rolex buyers would flip about which they prefer.
Today, if an AD in the south pacific islands said he had one available people will buy round trip plane tickets and paddle a boat three miles from anywhere in the world and go buy it, even if it was a Mk0 bezel in pink lavender and sky blue.
These details are fun, but seeing one out in the open on someone's wrist in isolation, it doesn't matter, it looks red blue and the bezel plays with light so in different lighting the first gen can look like the newest gen.

[Rashid.bk]

Originally Posted by mattsrs

There certainly has been some quality issues lately with Rolex. Attached photos is macro shot from BLRO I saw on Horology house YouTube channel. See red paint on GMT hand

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Meh, that's pretty standard. Rolex has always painted their hands like this. Go look at the hand painting on a white Explorer 2. Looks like they used a graffiti spray can. Needless to say, I don't look at my watch or the time through a micron telescope. People complain about scratches on the actual polished hour or minute hands....that is some incredible digging in the weeds.

[jonathon555]

Here is a pic of my May 2018 pepsi the first on the forum

[mattsrs]

Originally Posted by Rashid.bk

Meh, that's pretty standard. Rolex has always painted their hands like this. Go look at the hand painting on a white Explorer 2. Looks like they used a graffiti spray can. Needless to say, I don't look at my watch or the time through a micron telescope. People complain about scratches on the actual polished hour or minute hands....that is some incredible digging in the weeds.

Yea but if you watch the source video, QC issues are all over the dial. In this photo you can see on the arrow there's dents and bent edges

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[ArtNouveau]

My thoughts after 9 months of BLRO ownership:
1. I've owned probably 40+ watches in my lifetime, 10 of them Rolex, and the BLRO might just be my alltime favorite.
2. Much like the BLNR I owned prior, the ceramic bezels are chameleons, showing many tones depending on ambient light.
3. I can believe that Rolex tweaks design features on purpose on any given reference.
4. I can believe there are batch differences. Who outside the factory knows how many bezels are in a batch? 30? 100? 1000?

[DocHorton]

Originally Posted by London_Bloke

My AD was telling me that one of his very good Rolex customers got one of the first Pepsi through their door, he went to pick it up with his wife who knows nothing about watches.

When it was presented to them she said something along the lines of why do they call it Pepsi? He said because it's blue and red like their cans, she said but it's pink and purple.

He declined the watch because his wife ruined it!

Solid burn right there. She was right.

[Chewbacca]

Originally Posted by mattsrs

There certainly has been some quality issues lately with Rolex. Attached photos is macro shot from BLRO I saw on Horology house YouTube channel. See red paint on GMT hand

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As long as the date magnifier stays glued on, it's perfect.

Rolex knows what sells.

[Rashid.bk]

Originally Posted by mattsrs

Yea but if you watch the source video, QC issues are all over the dial. In this photo you can see on the arrow there's dents and bent edges

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You can't see that from a meter away on a wrist. Not something I care about on a professional model mass produced watch. Now if that were smudged paint or scratches on the finishing of a Vacheron Constantin Overseas Tourbillon, then I might get worked up, because then I'm paying six figures.
I can also relate to an issue someone posted with their DD's sunburst dial, you could actually see that with the naked eye as the flow of light is interrupted as it passes though the burst effect. It had a very tiny scratch I think, but it could be seen easily as sunburst dials finicky with light.

Macro photos and loupe mania is making people stress about nothing, imho.

[68L]

I was lucky enough to finally pick up my new Pepsi. How does one determine if it’s a MK 1 / 2?

[padi56]

Originally Posted by 68L

I was lucky enough to finally pick up my new Pepsi. How does one determine if it’s a MK 1 / 2?

In the real official Rolex world no such thing as all these so called MK1 Mk2 things, as they only exists in internet land.

[Onikage]

Darkening it up doesn't seem like a solution to the subdued pastel pinkle thing to me.

[Frank McKay]

Let’s put aside the possible bezel color differences for a moment. To me what’s indisputable is the prominence of the white colored numbers on the bezel. It appeara like the text is in bold when competed to the BLRO on the left. Clearly different.

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