The Vintage Rolex of Future Generations

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I was thinking about evolution of Rolex watches. The sport models have been updated one after another with somewhat similar attributes the last couple of years. The cases and lugs have gone larger, ceramic bezels has replaced aluminum, maxi dial has replaced the regular dial etc. This is the way of things, you have to change to keep up with the current fashion/demand.

At the same time there is a large crowd who embrace the vintage sport models, with the plastic crystals, discoloration, plots without WG-boarders, matte dials, gilt dials, spider dials etc. Watches with a past, models famously wore by Steve Mcqueen and Paul Newman to name two legends.

I thought about the coming generation of Rolex fans that look into the past, what will the be into? Will the memory of Mcqeen and Newman be long gone? Would they reject the notion of a watch with plastic glass, or handwound eta-movement? If so, what would constituted vintage? Would it be the 90's or early 2000 models with lack of engraved rehaut? Classic case? none-maxi dial? green lume? Hollow center links? Maybe they would find these models dull and stick with the current vintage sport watches just like today.

Or would they be into another type, say DD or YM or maybe the Cellini line. What do you think?