BLNR and YM 40mm rhodium dial both discontinued

[John DSSD]

Went to visit my mum yesterday and I popped into her local AD while she was doing some shopping in town.
They had a 116719 BLRO on the window so I asked them if they are selling it for local only.
As we got talking I noticed 2018-2019 catalogue and I asked If could have one. Then manager came over gave me the latest catalogue and he said they got them on Monday and I was the first one to have one.
He then told me BLNR and YM 40 Rhodium are discontinued and Rolex has stopped making them last month And they are ringing people to come in to get their deposit refunded or have their names put on for 126710 BLRO instead.

[padi56]

Afraid today many ADs talk through wear the sun don't shine and the BLNR is still on the Rolex web site.

[junamuan]

Yup, both still on their website.

[beshannon]

Originally Posted by John DSSD

He then told me BLNR and YM 40 Rhodium are discontinued and Rolex has stopped making them last month

Perhaps you can ask him to provide more detailed production schedules and delivery data for all the references since he seems to be in the know with Geneva

[peterpl]

Your AD is talking out of his ass!! LOL

[dmash]

Can we auto ban any member who creates another thread claiming the BLNR is discontinued? Thanks

[dr3ws]

That's total bull crap, I just got a call from an AD yesterday asking if I'm still interested in the YM rhodium dial

[Rolexavidfan]

Time will tell... ��

[AK797]

BLNR is getting a bit of talk so there might be something here or just ADs putting BLRO and BLNR together and getting five; first I've heard of the YM and rhodium is new-ish so can't be true.

[John DSSD]

Well, it's definitely not on the AD website where I bought my Deepsea from and the reference number and price has been updated.

I post some pictures of 2018-2019 price list when I get home from work. The BLNR is definitely not there anymore.

[Ravager135]

Originally Posted by John DSSD

Well, it's definitely not on the AD website where I bought my Deepsea from and the reference number and price has been updated.

I post some pictures of 2018-2019 price list when I get home from work. The BLNR is definitely not there anymore.

Check the official Rolex website. It's there. Your AD is copying what's listed from the configurator which doesn't explicitly show the BLNR. If you engage the configurator you will see the blue/black bezel is still an option for the steel GMT-Master II. In short, they are cut and pasting an incomplete listing.

[Devildog]

For all those saying it’s not true *just* because it’s on Rolex.com, we (should) all know that in the past that’s not been a true reflection of actual events.

Not saying the AD is correct, but using the website alone as a reference point is not necessarily correct




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[Roger Lococco]

I believe it. A real shame though.

[rogue828]

Rolex is distributing the last production of inventory of the blnr which will take 3-4 month's. The U.S. is responsible for 60% of all sports model sales. Some guy at the post office told me. "let the games begin"...Time will reveal the truth..

[dmash]

Originally Posted by rogue828

Rolex is distributing the last production of inventory of the blnr which will take 3-4 month's. The U.S. is responsible for 60% of all sports model sales. Some guy at the post office told me. "let the games begin"...Time will reveal the truth..

I would love for this to also be true regarding Subs and that’s why Supply has dwindled. For a 2019 Basel complete redesign

[dmash]

Honestly I never understood the BLNR anyways. Coke? Makes sense. Pepsi? Makes sense. BLNR with ‘nighttime’ black and daytime’ blue? I guess some say ‘blue skies’ but I correlate a cool color to night.

[Zakalwe]

I wonder if this thread will get to the 15 pages of this one?

15 pages and nobody was wiser at the end of it. It seems that it’s true that the BLNR is not in the latest catalogue. But it is on the website. These are facts. What they actually mean is open to speculation.

I would suggest, as others have before me that even if the current BLNR is “discontinued” it will simply reappear in near identical guise with the updated movement. I could of course be completely wrong. Only God and Rolex HQ knows.

[rolexryan329]

Originally Posted by dmash

Honestly I never understood the BLNR anyways. Coke? Makes sense. Pepsi? Makes sense. BLNR with ‘nighttime’ black and daytime’ blue? I guess some say ‘blue skies’ but I correlate a cool color to night.

Might not make sense but it’s aesthetically pleasing and you can tell many others agree

[T01]

I know the black dial WG BLRO is gone, however the BLNR is not.

[Ravager135]

Originally Posted by dmash

Honestly I never understood the BLNR anyways. Coke? Makes sense. Pepsi? Makes sense. BLNR with ‘nighttime’ black and daytime’ blue? I guess some say ‘blue skies’ but I correlate a cool color to night.

I disagree completely. The whole purpose of the bicolor bezel is to differentiate day from night hours. The sky is black at night and blue during the day. It's called the day/night bezel for this reason.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Coke and Pepsi bezel as well; but they make less sense from a functional standpoint even though we can all very easily discern which are day and night hours.

[Devildog]

Originally Posted by Ravager135

I disagree completely. The whole purpose of the bicolor bezel is to differentiate day from night hours. The sky is black at night and blue during the day. It's called the day/night bezel for this reason.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Coke and Pepsi bezel as well; but they make less sense from a functional standpoint even though we can all very easily discern which are day and night hours.

Yep - the BLNR is the ONLY Bi colour bezel that makes any "sense" in terms of its colours

[gt0279a]

I have several current Rolex catalogs...none contain all the current models.

[dmash]

Originally Posted by Ravager135

I disagree completely. The whole purpose of the bicolor bezel is to differentiate day from night hours. The sky is black at night and blue during the day. It's called the day/night bezel for this reason.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Coke and Pepsi bezel as well; but they make less sense from a functional standpoint even though we can all very easily discern which are day and night hours.

Originally Posted by Devildog

Yep - the BLNR is the ONLY Bi colour bezel that makes any "sense" in terms of its colours

Maybe I just don’t ‘get it’ as I’ve never owned a bi color GMT I guess I just correlate night to cool and day to warm, so Coke makes sense

[Rolex85]

Originally Posted by Ravager135

I disagree completely. The whole purpose of the bicolor bezel is to differentiate day from night hours. The sky is black at night and blue during the day. It's called the day/night bezel for this reason.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Coke and Pepsi bezel as well; but they make less sense from a functional standpoint even though we can all very easily discern which are day and night hours.

I completely agree it makes sense and my piece of evidence on this is my fiancé (who only knows what I teach her on watches as her thing is of course women shoes) was looking at my blnr and noticed the 24 hour bezel and said oh neat they made it like day and night for the 24 hours with the blue and black sky. I playfully laughed and said "no you dummy..... they made the watch for batman. its to match his suit"

but the fact that a girl knowing not a heck of a lot about watches was able to look at that and right away see day and night told me that it makes perfect sense.

[rajurama]

BLNR is no more in the Master Catalog of my AD aswell. Rolex website means nothing.
Peace.

[ap1]

I’ll go with false

[Alpino]

Originally Posted by rajurama

BLNR is no more in the Master Catalog of my AD aswell. Rolex website means nothing.
Peace.

BLNR and YM 40mm rhodium dial both NOT discontinued .

Both appear in 2018/2019 new Master Catalog .... LN and BLNR at page 87 and YM 116622 Rhodium at page 91.

[RickR]

Originally Posted by rajurama

BLNR is no more in the Master Catalog of my AD aswell. Rolex website means nothing.
Peace.

Agree. IMO, BLNR is no more.

[Ravager135]

Originally Posted by rajurama

BLNR is no more in the Master Catalog of my AD aswell. Rolex website means nothing.
Peace.

That's categorically incorrect. The 2018 Rolex master catalog contains both references as described above. Many times AD catalogs are incomplete. Sometimes even the Rolex website appears incomplete until you use the configurator and discern all the available options.

Furthermore, Rolex historically discontinues models early in the new year just prior to Basel. This is most recently reflected in the Yachtmaster and Milgauss models that were discontinued in the past couple of years. Rolex IS the only official source of information and that includes their master catalog and website which has always been reflective of available options.

[beshannon]

Love the laughs in this thread, some will believe anything.