Why the Demand for Blue Dials?

[thefollandgnat]

Originally Posted by 7sins

Why isn’t there more AP blue in here?!

It's not as mesmerising as Rolex, Panerai or IWC (top three on thread so far)?

[sunnygps]

The blue sunburst dial character varies with even slight variation in light conditions. I like the contrast and in low light conditions, it turns into darker shade, closer to a black dial. Easy on the eyes and beautiful to look at.

I will never get tired of the blue dials.

[TswaneNguni]

Originally Posted by AK797

Such a beautiful reference !

[watchaser]

Always great to have dial variation in your timepieces. Here’s my blue dial piece.



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[wiem0014]

Originally Posted by thefollandgnat

It's not as mesmerising as Rolex, Panerai or IWC (top three on thread so far)?

I actually love the AP Blue dial watches and think they are a close second to me behind Rolex. Rolex does an incredible job with the blue sunburst dials.

[ROLEX*]

Who says there is a hot demand of Blue dials?

Please share the statistics.

[wiem0014]

Originally Posted by ROLEX*

Who says there is a hot demand of Blue dials?

Can share the statistics?

AP 15500 Blue: $43k
Ap 15500 Black: $33k

Rolex Skydweller Blue: $26k
Rolex Skydweller Black: $20k

These are just two examples but as I mentioned in the OP there are others (Datejusts, PP Nautilus, etc). So it seems that people will pay a (sometimes large) premium for the same watch with a Blue Dial.

[ROLEX*]

The higher gray market price doesn’t necessarily mean hot demand but could be possibly due to lower production. Specific popular models eg. hottest SS Daytona panda is a white dial

Rainbow Daytona gray market price is way higher than retail but it is a black dial instead of blue, my 2cents

[sgwatchguy]

Social media. Blue dials photograph better. All these blue dials were unloved till Instagram blew up hype.

[rolexonlywatch]

Blue for Democratic


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[thefollandgnat]

Originally Posted by rolexonlywatch

Blue for Democratic

This doesn't work so well in the UK. Both my wife and I have blue cars, which is mildly embarrassing (extremely embarrassing, in fact, given the current shower). It's just a much nicer colour in most contexts than red, even in road bikes, despite the fact that red bikes go faster.

[wiem0014]

Originally Posted by ROLEX*

The higher gray market price doesn’t necessarily mean hot demand but could be possibly due to lower production. Specific popular models eg. hottest SS Daytona panda is a white dial

Rainbow Daytona gray market price is way higher than retail but it is a black dial instead of blue, my 2cents

Well the Rainbow Daytona is obviously a unique example with VERY low production numbers. But there is no indication that these other watches have lower production numbers for blue dials. There simply appears to be more demand for many of them (just like your SS Daytona example)

[macrowatch]

Blue is no doubt trendy at the moment more so than the usual popularity. Then also some intentional scarcity mentality. e.g. both Rolex and AP use light blue as their special platinum signaling color for dials.

However, I also think the recent material technology changes have really made the current blues more visually special than older blues. Looking for example at the FPJ CB dial or even some of the new Panerai dials, wow, these are not my father's watch dials! IMHO they are clearly superior in depth and light reflection versus dials from even 5-10 years ago for blue vs 'blue'.

[TswaneNguni]

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[TswaneNguni]

Wifes.. Absolutely beautiful reference ..and on Super-Jubilee .

[BroncoOne]

I’ve got a blue dial Turn-o-Graph. The combo with the white gold bezel just spoke to me much more than the black dial one I was considering back then. It still speaks to me LOL

[ajw99]

I might be in the minority here; I am not particularly interested in blue dials, typically because so many of them seem almost black under typical lighting conditions. I love the photos of the blue dials under excellent lighting conditions; the dials then look awesome and really pop! The practical reality for my eyes is that unless the dial is more of a sky blue and therefore looks distinctly blue pretty much all the time (a la Azzurro, which is too light of a blue for some folks), I'm just not into blue dial watches. I'd just assume go black dial. But keep those blue photos coming!

[zion_rasta]

Blue dials are so Millennial...

Black is more Gen X badass (Back in Black - AC/DC)

[Toony]

Blue is the ocean and the sky.

[CFR]

Here are some blue dials (aventurine/goldstone) from the 1970s:



Here's a Lange Langematik with a unique (prototype) blue dial, shown in 2 different angles:



And here are two that need no introduction:

[blue lion]

The 16613 Bluesy it what got me into Rolex. Still have it and by far my favorite watch.
I'm not a black/stainless fan, I wanted some color. I'd be fine with green also just haven't done it yet.

[THC]

[peterpl]

Because blue is the best colour. Goes with anything and just looks awesome.

Total opposite to other colours like green, pink, yellow etc...which really dont go with everything and lets be honest look gawdy alot of the time.

Just look at it.

[wiem0014]

The 16613 was my second Rolex ever (first being a crazy TT DJ36 with a white pyramid dial, ugh). I saw the blue dial in the window and just had to have it.

Love the pics of all the blue dials, keep them coming!

[Max 66]

Black is definitely the most popular dial but blue dial is something special, that gives a different type of emotion.
I would say that while green is the third, fourth or fifth watch in a collection, blue is the second watch and in some circumstances even the first watch in a collection.
To my personal taste, even for the bezel the blue color is the best, look at the new Sub 41 126619LB vs the 126610LV.

[Abs777]

Blue makes the world go round

[Rolex.c6]

I don't know either, always wondered why they are so popular. Personaly I prefer black dials and bezels. A BLRO or BLNR looks good, but that is as much blue as I will wear.