Please tell me that’s brand new from Rolex and a dwarf dressed in a morning suit delivered it on a silver platter
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No it’s probably 40yrs old
How much is a new one or have they stopped making them?
The Explorer and GMT Oyster bracelet have a 5mm on the fly adjustment and it suprised me how much use it got due to temp variations
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Yep, glide lock is great too
That’s the problem with fixed straps or bracelets
Glide lock is probably the best solution, have that on the Sub
Can’t really get them new anymore.
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Buy new Rolex watches is the answer.
Oh.
Maybe not.
I have quite skinny wrists so have two links removed on the Explorer and Sub, but would always keep them as I think it makes the watch much easier to sell if and when you might need to.
But they are not gold and not worth as much!
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Yeah there’s no point selling extras if you don’t need to
Especially given that Rolex gold is worth about five times the price of natural gold. This is because it is only created in a very special type of super massive supernova 
If it wasn’t for that sort of rant, watch forums vanish overnight. Every fucking day: 10 new Rolex butthurt threads - identical to the previous day’s Rolex butthurt threads. Rolex fanghurls are the most easily wound-up humans on the face of the planet - they make Nordost acolytes look thoroughly rational - and the humiliations they will endure just to allowed inside the door of an AD are fucking tragic. Rolex isn’t a watch brand, it’s a cult.
The Billionaire anecdote is bullshit mind, if the likes of them want a watch, their PA goes to the greys and pays the markup - a few 10s of £1000s here-or-there are not even pocket change - and there just aren’t the watches in circulation in ADs aside from the occasional monster of advanced hideousness that no-one can sell… It is certainly true that ADs are punting stuff onto the grey market mind. Rolex recently withdrew AD status from a bunch of UK dealers: many quickly shut their doors for good… That doesn’t happen if you’re relying on hard-to-get stock with a poor standard retail markup (brands I know about are <10%, suspect Rolex is no exception).
Ironically, those same forums are currently (relatively-speaking) awash with ‘beginners’ Rolex models being cashed-in as near the top of the market as their loving enthusiast owners can manage - many mint and unworn safe-queens. The market for them has gone pretty ‘bear-y’ in the last 6 months, and dealer availability has improved.
If anyone in business wants to know how to sell a product: Rolex should be your bible. The watches are decent, one-or-two are even quite nice - but I suspect their biggest spend is not on the watchmaking side but the marketing. The marketing is pure, adamantine brilliance - inspired mega-brain genius tier, they are enormously but obscurely profitable, they have the barefaced cheek to register HWF as a fucking charity (!!!), and they literally cannot make enough of them - and they make millions a year of these ‘rare and exclusive’ watches… All so aging men can make sure lesser mortals recognise that they’re kind-of-a-big-deal at golf-club bars… 
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True. Appeal to the very basest instinct of most men which to try to demonstrate status and hence ascendancy in the pecking order, by virtue of paying over the odds for something on their wrist to indicate*what time it is 
*(indicate being the choice word due to the vague accuracy)
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“blue platinum President 40” sounds like he’s looked at all the options and picked the absolute worst combination.
I very much get the appeal of many Rolex, from a no-date sub to a nicely rounded YG day date from the 70s.
But blue (I assume dial) and all the rest, yesh. No.
Should come with a bottle of Hai Karate and a chest wig 
(FWVLIW I actually like blingy YG '70s watches)
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It looks like something out of a lucky bag 
This transcribes as the AD said no.
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