Reply With QuoteLooks like a lovely example.What sort of price are they asking ?
Goldsmiths in the Bullring have had the Basel stock this week & popped in today to have a look, the definite pick of the bunch is the WG 'pepsi' an absolutely stunning piece in the metal! :)
Can't see myself ever being able to afford one but some very lucky people are going to be very very pleased with it!!!
Without doubt the nicest Rolex I've ever seen!
Last edited by MrSimba; 17th August 2014 at 19:48.
Looks like a lovely example.What sort of price are they asking ?
It is indeed beautiful, but about £26k of beautiful!!!
I love it, but i don't £26k love it. Bring on the stainless steel model.
Wow, I'd be willing to do some weird shit to be able to buy one.
Originally Posted by MrSimba
Really ! That will be me out then. 26k good lord
Can anyone tell me, through experience, is it a different watch to wear to the ss model?? Lighter?? If a better watch, is it 20k better??
My favourite Rolex and it looks amazing....
The white gold GMT is heavier than a Deepsea. It's an amazing watch. It's definately not 20k better, it's still the same movement. But the pepsi bezel (which is supposed to be difficult to manufacture) and full gold case and bracelet account for the difference.
That does look good sadly though as they have made it in white gold I don't ever think we will see a stainless steel version, hope I'm proved wrong though.
Thanks. I thought it would be heavier. Love the Pepsi bezel and IMO looks better in ceramic.
It looks nice Tony but I think your vintage GMT with the new Pepsi bezel looks just as good!
It looks amazing. Nuff said
Probably the light but that blue section of the bezel looks purple to me.
I have tried this model on and it is lovely, no chance of an ss one though, apparently the bezel costs £3k which is why they had to put it on a more expensive model.
It's hard to tell from the picture. How sharp is the red/blue transition on the bezel? I assumed it'd be a razor sharp line, but here it looks like a very tight fade/blurring between the two. I assume that's just the phone camera?
I bet the mods would be all over it if I did :DDo elaborate
If I had 26k to spare, I think I'd rather spend it on weird shit than the Rolex!
;)
Second that :D
Men wearing parkas and riding scooters festooned with mirrors? Whatever rings your bell.
Going back to the watch, do you think Rolex will let people buy the bezel for people to fit to their standard GMT2c?
Love it.
:D
Guess and hope not acctually.
Like putting a wg-bezel on the ss Daytona, cheating.
Eventually there will be ceramic pepsi-bezels second hand, but think it will be rare and expensive.
Will there be ceramic seconds hands, though? And ceramic dials and hour & minute hands?
As it is, a white gold GMT that's new today will look really odd 10 years from now, because everything will have aged but the bezel.
Stunning. I tried on a WG sub with the blue bezel/face and that was stunning also. Don't think I ll be buying just yet! The WG models do blow a bit of money tho.
Must admit, real world photo looks awesome and I'd happily take one.
Still not sure of the blue and red, not as vibrant as on the old Pepsi.
I love it, it's such a shame they don't do a stainless steel model for the plebe... Even if Rolex supplied the bezel as a spare (unlikely!) I would not want to "mod" a standard GMT2c. I feel bad enough when I do it on an SKX!
Absolutely stunning.
Out of interest (as I'll never be able to afford one), how well do white gold watches resist scratches and dinks? My SS GMT has picked up a few, so I assume a WG one would suffer even more.
beautiful but prefer my BLNR (and the £20k saving!)
Prices quoted from TFR have it at £26,160 :gulp:!
Not sure if it's purple IRL but I don't like the colours anyway. IMO Rolex hasn't nailed the ceramic Pepsi issue yet.
Pictures of the www (© www.ablogtowatch.com):
(© www.hodinkee.com):
Oh and by the way... It's not on their website yet? That's odd, the new DSSD already is.
WG is bitter sweet: u have a special watch and u what it is vs the ss model. But most ppl would never justify the 20k Extra, for somthing looking similar.
Does look rather sweet but not sure if it's £20k more sweet than the BLNR.
Wow! Looks awesome, but i agree, i don't think its £20k more nicer than the BLNR,
Or you could have this......
And this.....
and a Daytona (if that's your thing ;-) )
And a good lump of spare change.
I don't think the majority of people buying one will be in the 'or' catagorey, if anything the 'and' catagorey ;)Or you could have this......
And this.....
and a Daytona (if that's your thing ;-) )
And a good lump of spare change.
Probably not lol.... Flash gits !
:) I think this is for the wealthy connoisseur, arguably no one knows it's WG. YG or diamonds etc for the flash gits?!
From pictures, it looks fuzzy. I'm waiting for a good macro shot of the transition.
Of course not. You can't even buy the aluminum insert for the 16610LV without proof of ownership (at least in the US).
On edit, the bezel supposedly doesn't even fit on a SS watch.
Last edited by JP Chestnut; 20th August 2014 at 03:05.
I don't have this watch, but I do have the black/blue ss GMT. I can confirm that on mine, to the naked eye, the colour transition in the ceramic is very sharp indeed.
If the BLNR is any indication, it's impossible to tell what the BLRO bezel will look like in real world lighting, as opposed to showroom lighting and lighting good enough to show the colors for a photograph.
My BLNR's blue section of the bezel in low light is indistinguishable from the black portion.
Nonetheless, the BLRO a beautiful watch and I'd love to have one, but I'm not buying a solid gold watch, ever, and now that the BLRO has been rendered in a white metal, there is no chance that it will ever be released in any other white metal, unless something about the bezel or the dial changes. too.
To do otherwise would be something completely different for Rolex.
BLNR in low light.
BLNR in partial sunlight
Last edited by GradyPhilpott; 5th September 2014 at 08:34.
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