Making these replica watches predictions is becoming increasingly difficult.
But no bookmakers site has yet thought of collecting bets on who guesses the Rolex Baselworld 2020 news?
It could be an idea. I’m sure that whoever would make a triplet, besides buying a nice Rolex would take home a shovel of money.
This year the show will take place in May so Rolex has even more time to fit its strategies. In 2019 with the new Batman we witnessed a move by marketing masters. And from what I am perceiving 2020 could reserve another.
Over the years we have become accustomed (or resigned) to the crowned news concerning small changes. Aesthetically, last year we got to the point of replacing only a well-known Oyster bracelet with an equally well-known Jubilee. But perhaps even Rolex did not think that his latest actions would have gone so well, with the effect of making almost all steel references impossible to find and therefore generating discontent among his supporters. Having said that, it is also fair to remember that these are always exponential quality watches.
Then the year ended and together a truce arrived that allowed to raise prices with the new 2020 price list, one of the actions that I had foreseen in the article that investigated why the last GMT-Master II costs so dear (a unless you want to wait several years).
It is rumored in the camp that the other shelter the Maison would be resorting to would be to increase production, but it is not official.
We’ll see.
But now it’s time to go to the forecasts, which as always I emphasize not being official, on the 2020 news. I looked forward to this moment: the article about a year ago turned out to be perfect to also hear your fantasies, combined with the concerns about the production exit of this or that icon. But regarding the last point, I have a surprise in store.
Rolex Submariner 2020
Let’s start with the most obvious. It has been too long for Rolex to delay updating its diver, as well as the most recognizable crown in the world, even though, just when he was in the way, they waited even twenty years in Geneva before putting their hands on it.
The “excuse” could be, as we all know, to mount the caliber 3235 introduced five years ago on the then new Pearlmaster 39. The current caliber 3135 has been in service since 1988 which, translated into decades, makes over three.
However, this old man is unanimously recognized as one of the most reliable movements ever built and simple to repair. So why should the 3235 end up in the new Submariner? Because in four years – after the Pearlmaster – it was assembled in the Datejust 41, Datejust 36, Sea-Dweller 43, Deepsea, Yacht-Master 40, and Yacht-Master 42 models.
The only models that have moved replica watches uk since 3135 are the Date 34 and precisely the whole Submariner Date line.
But what’s the best with the 3235 caliber? If we look at the perceptible performance, only the power reserve that has gone from 48 hours to 70 hours. Going into detail we have the Chronergy, a more performing escapement.
Lastly, the 3235 caliber that should finally move the new Submariner 2020 has a new, obviously longer winding spring compared to the previous one, and therefore housed in a barrel with thinner compartments, and a new rotor module made in a single block. Rolex accompanies these differences by declaring that on 3235 over 90% of the elements are new and overall protected by 14 patents.
New Submariner new case
Theoretically, because you can always expect everything from Rolex, creating a new Submariner would not be a completely painless operation as it has been for the last GMT-Master II. Yes, here we have the thorny issue of those oversized and flat handles that appeared in 2010 that made fans so angry.
So in what will be confirmed if it will certainly be the key novelty Rolex Baselworld 2020, in addition to the new movement it would be nice to see a new case with more arched lugs that better connect with the Oyster and Jubilé bracelets.
I insist, and as I wrote in my predictions of last year, another thing that I would like to see is a Cerachrom bezel of a new color, for example blue, but with at least to start the usual black dial. A new chromatic combination a bit like it was in 2003 for the Submariner Kermit of the fiftieth anniversary with only the green bezel, and then only in a second time also an all blue version but this hypothesis is remote as it would be the same livery of the reference 116619LB in white gold.
But all this is unlikely to happen. Already the only intervention at the checkout, which I think will continue on the measure of 40mm, would be to see the greatest dream come true of those who love this diver.
Will the Submariner Hulk go out of production?
It could and for two reasons:
But all this is unlikely to happen. Already the only intervention at the checkout, which I think will continue on the measure of 40mm, would be to see the greatest dream come true of those who love this diver.
1.Is the Submariner Hulk going out of production?
- Could and for two reasons:
To facilitate the introduction of the new classic models with black dials, 3235 caliber and renewed case.
In doing so, Rolex would serve the Hulk to the collector’s market on a silver plate, making it take a few years off and perhaps preparing the ground for the arrival of the blue versions.
Anyway, I materialized the new Hulk like this.
And coincidentally the rumors of the departure of the Hulk have been going around for a while. If it happened like last year with the Batman we could instead see it reappear with the new movement and who knows what tiny change!
What do you think about it?
GMT-Master II 2020
I really don’t see this news. A bit like when you monopolized the scene as a presenter on the small screen, the most logical move is always a nice pause.
But the question that since the arrival of the Pepsi Rolex has reserved only its Jubilé bracelets for its recent triple steel time zones does not come to my mind. I would expect sooner or later references with Oyster bracelet which being new would spontaneously become the most difficult to buy; but I repeat that a healthy stop would be the best move.
Explorer 2020
This collection I give as the first place of the next Rolex interventions for two reasons: the first is that the Explorer that refers to the one born and gone in 1953 on Everest is a splendid alternative to the Oyster Perpetual and Oyster Date and for how much you knock it has always sold very well to a niche audience. But that’s not quite the case for the stouter brother Explorer II.
Taking into account that in 2021 the 50th anniversary replica watches of the first Explorer II Freccione would start next year we will certainly see something new about it.
But for 2020 Rolex could only make a reference to the collection to warm it up by presenting a new reference from the Explorer, perhaps unpublished with a white or gray dial.
Daytona 2020
As we have just seen, even if something always ends up escaping, the first rule for making predictions about the Rolex novelties of the current year always passes through a careful analysis of the calendar for anniversaries.
He tells us that 1970 is the year in which the later became extra-famous Daytona Panda with reference 6263 and 6365.
And then a King with a white dial and black counters could be just fine, but in the case I only see him appear in a super precious metal like platinum. The latter hypothesis could be an opportunity to get your hands on the first Daytona 116506 with the Cerachrom bezel (for the brown occasion), released in 2013 and make it go out of production.
Or will 2020 finally be the year in which Rolex will also put the Cerachrom bezel in the steel and gold models?
As hypothesized in past forecasts it is difficult that the Daytona with gold case and bracelet, be it yellow, Everose or white, ever mount that proprietary ceramic disc, while on the two-color variants it could add that extra bit of sportiness to play down the part made of precious metal and make it more informal without damaging its message of exclusivity.
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My article on the predictions on the Rolex 2020 news that we will see at Baselworld ends here. Let’s see how it will end.
In reiterating that the hypotheses with modified original Rolex images you see are absolutely arbitrary and unofficial, who knows if even the news of this year will be impossible to find in an official dealer?
And now remember to leave an opinion and your predictions on the 2020 crowned news.
