if anyone knows about New Daytona may introduce during Basel 2013?

[00pumpkin]

Originally Posted by scooba

Some one posted a lot of design patents in Switzerland last Oct 2012 by three different guys who work for Rolex SU,

Very similar happened in Oct 2011 before the Sky Dweller at Basel 12


It could be a ploy by Rolex to up the anti but my AD thinks there is some 50th or anni model out at Basel this April

Where are these design patents?

[Zed82]

Originally Posted by padi56

Well my 6263 from 1982 shows no sign of bezel fade and no fade to Sub or SD..

How did you manage that? Just curious because i see fade in every picture i see of the old Subs/SD:s. I kind of like the fading bezels. Just can´t see the pros with the ceramics.

[submariner66]

Originally Posted by Zed82

How did you manage that? Just curious because i see fade in every picture i see of the old Subs/SD:s. I kind of like the fading bezels. Just can´t see the pros with the ceramics.

Everyone on here knows that Padi pampers his watches and washes them frequently, and he doesn't ever dive with or use them as a tool watch or for their intended purpose, that's why his aren't faded or scratched or anything like that.

[threemonkeys]

I hear tell there will be some variant of the famed Hello Kitty dial. My source has not always been deemed reliable, however.

[MovieGuy]

Originally Posted by T-Rip

What's your source?

Rolex.

[MovieGuy]

Originally Posted by beshannon

Please post a verifiable source



Please post a verifiable source

What do you want me to say? Me > Rolex Rep > Rolex USA President. That's the info trail.

[The Mole]

Steel and gold daytona with black cerachrom bezel, black dial and green subdials

[Le Chef]

Rolex are brilliant. Every year they introduce a new model a couple of months before the Basel show. It's called "The Rumor". What makes this brilliant is that this model costs absolutely nothing to develop, costs nothing to produce, and creates its own marketing budget from absolutely zero investment. Everybody talks about it and everybody wants it, regardless of whatever the price might be. It's an LE, because by the end of the Basel show its out of production, never to be seen until the next year. Now if only I could do that...

[threemonkeys]

Hello Kitty dial!!

Just saying.

[Psmith]

My prediction is that there will be a watch fair in Basel, Switzerland, in April

I can provide verifiable sources if required

[HRV]

It makes sense to me that a new Daytona could be a possibility because of the new F1 sponsorship, hopefully bigger that the current size

[Psmith]

If Rolex do introduce a brand new Daytona this year, then this would make the current cerachrom bezel models transitional...
Interesting scenario, although I don't think it will happen - at least not this year

[Dream99]

I have heard from my AD in UK that Rolex will be discontinuing production of the Daytona from the end of 2013, due to having a warehouse full of them in Switzerland. It seems their marketing Stratergy of making the Daytona rare and hard to come by has back fired on them.

[HRV]

Or maybe it's because they have a replacement

[astrazen]

Originally Posted by MovieGuy

What do you want me to say? Me > Rolex Rep > Rolex USA President. That's the info trail.

Must be true then.

[The GMT Master]

Originally Posted by MovieGuy

What do you want me to say? Me > Rolex Rep > Rolex USA President. That's the info trail.

Rolex Reps never tell you exactly what's going on, I know for a fact they throw curveballs when asked questions like this. What he probably told you was his own opinion - he'll probably be no more informed than the rest of us

[centerisl]

I truly can't imagine a Daytona with a date - and a cyclops.

They had a date option when they used the Zenith EP, and they whacked it.

Frankly, I think that the signature cyclops is working against them here - any location other than 3:00 and it's a deal-breaking "change". A 3:00 location with 3 subdials (at 6, 9, 12 like my Speedmaster Date) means that the Rolex logo would have to move to the 3:00 area, where it would be partially obscured by the cyclops.

FWIW, I think the reliance on cyclops at 3:00 is truly going to hurt Rolex in the long run. No Big Date complications. No (modern) triple dates or moonphase. I suppose they could do a reserve de marche.

Of course Rolex doesn't seem to have any problems selling close to a million watches a year, but as a long term strategy I just see artificial limitations.

[Yacine]

Personally, if they make a bigger size daytona+they change the bezel into something less shining like black ceramic bezel for instance+brushed bracelet+black subdials..if all these conditions happened then i would sell my daytona 16520 without any hesitation. Just my 5 cents opinion.

[Yacine]

Originally Posted by Glidelock

My ex wife's boyfriends lovers dogs 3rd cousins owners sister is married to a Janitor that works at the Rolex building in North Korea and overheard the whole thing!

North Korea i doubt it unless you got this inside from Denis Rodman. You certainly mean South Korea...

[beshannon]

Originally Posted by MovieGuy

What do you want me to say? Me > Rolex Rep > Rolex USA President. That's the info trail.

Must be some rep to talk directly to the president.

[33JS]

Size to remain the same and accented in blue but still with no date is what I hear from someone with close contacts in Swizerland. Possibly ceramic bezel...

Yes, blue.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Zed82

How did you manage that? Just curious because i see fade in every picture i see of the old Subs/SD:s. I kind of like the fading bezels. Just can´t see the pros with the ceramics.

Perhaps they were better quality back then but myself have never seen any black insert on any Rolex watch that's faded unless by owner abuse scratches yes.Yes the Pepsi and coke inserts seen them fade but that's down to the paint pigment.And my two working tools a Sub and SD seen quite a bit of abuse and a hell of a lot of sunshine over the years before I retired yet still black as black.

[landroverking]

Yes it is confirmed. Rolex will fix the Daytona and will once again make it look like a Daytona. Not like the 4130.

[Jsan20]

A date is confirmed :-)

[MovieGuy]

Originally Posted by beshannon

Must be some rep to talk directly to the president.

[jontay02]

Originally Posted by centerisl

I truly can't imagine a Daytona with a date - and a cyclops.

They had a date option when they used the Zenith EP, and they whacked it.

Frankly, I think that the signature cyclops is working against them here - any location other than 3:00 and it's a deal-breaking "change". A 3:00 location with 3 subdials (at 6, 9, 12 like my Speedmaster Date) means that the Rolex logo would have to move to the 3:00 area, where it would be partially obscured by the cyclops.

FWIW, I think the reliance on cyclops at 3:00 is truly going to hurt Rolex in the long run. No Big Date complications. No (modern) triple dates or moonphase. I suppose they could do a reserve de marche.

Of course Rolex doesn't seem to have any problems selling close to a million watches a year, but as a long term strategy I just see artificial limitations.

they should just get rid of the external cyclops and make it internal, just what Ap is doing with their Royal Oak Offshore models. Frankly this makes more sense. Dun get me wrong, this is the signature Rolex trademark and all, but I just think that a cyclops sitting in the dial makes the watch look less cluttered.