see what you guys MADE me do.....noone told me the slipperly slope goes sideways too BRAND NEW SUBMARINER WITH DATE to keep my Breitling Crosswind company !

 

Very nice. Now head on over to

http://www.watchtalkforums.info/foru...isplay.php?f=2

and join in on the fun!

Caveat, it can be as addicting as Rennlist.

Cheers,
Steve R

 

Roles SS Sub is an awesome watch, I have had mine for 17 years, built like a tank. I had it cleaned and serviced last year, not cheap to service, but a great watch.

 

I like how it has rolex around the inside bezel, is that new for 08 or an option of some sort?

 

I love my sub as well...classy yet not flashy. I had mine since 96 and still working meticulously..Congrats

 

No, Rolex has been doing this for some years now. Supposedly it is to make it harder for copy company's.

BTW , GREAT watch, congrats. Love the Sub !!

 

Have had mine for 6 years. Just spent $300.00 on a full service by Rolex, they even polished the watch and it came back looking brand new. I do not see myself wearing any other watch, ever.

 

I'm presenting this Saturday at the graduation ceremony of the Rolex watchmaking school in the US, but I can't wear my blue two tone Sub since I'll be wearing a suit.

www.lititzwatchtechnicum.com

Entirely funded by Rolex USA. Campus designed by noted US architect Michael Graves.

 

Stunning campus. Wow. What are you presenting? Are you in the watch business?

 

10 years at the bench, the last five traveling the world doing product training for sales professionals about timepieces and jewelry. A little product development work and client dinners on occasion as well. I'm also presenting at the www.nghayekwatchmakingschool.org graduation. Just little speeches to congratulate the students and their choice of career, and what opportunities will be offered to them. The Hayek school also is free.

 

Nice!! I want to get a new watch for my suits to keep my Breitling company as well. Not sure if I am a Rolex kind of guy though. I like that most people have no idea what a Breitling is. You get any compliments on it yet?

 

Have you seen a decrease in the Watch industry over the past 10 years? I read an article about the impact of Cell phones, and the article said that today's youth tends to not wear watches, since they carry cell phones. they anticcipated a decline in the high end watch industry as a result.

As my generation reaches middle age, I think high end watch buying will increase as we grew up without cell phones, and tended to wear watches, and now are approaching higher income brackets, but I do notice most of my son's friends do NOT wear watches, and rely on their phones for time.

just curious....

 

Virtually every luxury watch brand has shown high single/low double digit increases yearly in the timeframe you referenced. You're absolutely right about kids, but when they get jobs and start to make money they'll start to buy expensive watches.

 

Anyone know what year this started?

 

Rolex is sneaky with their wording-'superlative chronometer, offically certified'.

It's a pass fail test to earn the COSC certificate, they don't rate them A, B, C, D. Their watches are not more superlative than anyone else's, al least as far as chronometry. Great pieces, though.