Bigger Sub next?

[Gary.]

Firstly, I love 40mm. I'm not advocating a change but I've been thinking.

A few years ago, Rolex overhauled their GMT movement and it was presented in a 42mm Explorer II.
We now have a new calibre in the SD50 and the Datejust 41 (plus there's the Day Date). The new watches have dates and, therefore, date wheels which means that they have to be made for a dial within a certain ranges of measurements if the date windows aren't going to look awkwardly placed.

Is it possible that, with these new movements, we are seeing a line-wide increase in size?

The Subs and the GMT-Masters were given the supercase treatment which always felt like an incredibly conservative company's reluctant acknowledgement that everyone was buying bigger watches. Are they now implementing a more thorough plan to fall inline with modern trends?

I personally think that 40mm is perfect and we've already seen they stupidly large watches of a few years ago fall away with a few exceptions.

So what can we expect? Subs and GMT's at 41mm-42mm (about what you'd expect to see if you slimmed down the SD50's bezel)?

Maybe this has been asked before but I haven't seen it. A few years ago I'd have laughed at the idea that the icons would make such a significant jump in size but I'm now feeling that something's going on....