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22 May 2023, 08:15 AM | #31 |
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If they are having “production” issues, could be caused by unavailability of certain raw materials.
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22 May 2023, 08:42 AM | #33 |
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Funny you post this. The blue on my Pepsi is super dark. Almost black. Like that from Day 1. I must say that I like that a lot. Makes the watch sort of like a coke. Is this something people are asking Rolex to replace?
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22 May 2023, 09:19 AM | #34 |
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I thought I saw the Pepsi bezel production issues mentioned here in another earlier thread a week or so ago. I know Rolex had a time perfecting the color transition in the first models.
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22 May 2023, 09:50 AM | #36 |
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This was verified about 6 months ago.
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22 May 2023, 11:20 AM | #38 |
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I doubt if it's true
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This. After all these years, they sort of lost the color combination? Accidentally spilled in some yellow? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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How would we know?
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My AD said they are now getting fewer Pepsis than Daytonas. I have a Pepsi so I could care less about this subject. Just passing on what I was told. She does not know the reason but did say they have recently been getting in a lot more Batman/Batgirls.
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22 May 2023, 06:31 PM | #42 |
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Yes Rolex, the behemoth of watch production, is now having issues because unknown reasons and the info is leaking on a random person's insight.
People above the 25% IQ quartile know to ignore this information. |
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My AD tells me their watches come in batches, there are times a bunch of GMTs (Batman / Pepsi), then daytona, etc., so it may just be the cycle where GMTs (or Pepsi) are not coming in these batches.
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Have been told in uk that there’s no Pepsi due any time soon by my AD. I have one so I take this to be a real story.
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22 May 2023, 09:00 PM | #45 |
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Things are usually produced in batches. Losing a batch or even two can put a hole in the supply chain. It happens. Has it happened to the BLRO bezel insert? I don't know, although I tend to trust the feedback I see from some contributors, one of whom has posted in this thread.
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22 May 2023, 09:27 PM | #46 |
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nobody knows
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22 May 2023, 10:37 PM | #47 |
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same rumors about the Op41 red and yellow dial.
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23 May 2023, 12:13 AM | #48 |
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This is 100% true and it is NOT due to quality issues.
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23 May 2023, 01:01 AM | #49 |
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23 May 2023, 01:20 AM | #50 | |
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FWIW, asked a major chain yesterday and they confirmed that there is no such news from Rolex regarding production issues, and they are coming in their shipments as normally as past. |
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23 May 2023, 01:22 AM | #51 |
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Even if AD's are receiving less BLRO's, it could simply be because that's what the wizard behind the curtain wants.
Human nature.... "I can't get a BLRO no matter how long I wait" Either because: 1. I don't have the clout to get allocated one or 2. Must be a manufacturing problem causing scarcity "Clearly, it must be the latter" Personally. I'm unabashedly in the number one category. |
23 May 2023, 01:25 AM | #52 |
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Just so people understand mass manufacturing, the Pepsi bezels are produced in huge batches. Hence the mki, mkii, mkiii and so on. If on the off chance there was some sort of production error, that could scale back production.
Why they'd be having this issues? I have no clue but it's not impossible. I have been on this forum from years and seen completely unsubstantiated rumors and also many people claiming to have heard similar news and certain members of this forum throwing up a storm denying them. Go back in history and look at mki vs mkii Pepsi and so on. There were people going to the grave that there was no such thing. |
23 May 2023, 02:10 AM | #53 |
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This is my ‘My AD said’ but genuinely this IS what my AD told me when I recently purchased my WG GMT blue dial Pepsi.
He said he’d been out to Watches & Wonders and had various meeting/conversations etc with the Rolex people. What they told him was that of all the bi colour ceramic bezels, the red/blue combo was by far the most difficult to perfect. They have around an 85% fail rate - the main failure being the red ‘bleeding’ into the blue and leaving a fuzzy join & not straight & crisp as desired. By comparison, they don’t seem to have the same issues with the blue/black or black/brown on the BLNR or CHNR. At around £1000 uk sterling manufacturing cost per bezel, 85% failure is getting expensive even by Rolex standards. What he said was that at ‘some point’ in the future (no time scales specified) Rolex top brass may say enough is enough if the fail rate can’t be improved & withdraw the red/blue altogether. Don’t shoot he messenger,,,,, Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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‘£1000 uk sterling manufacturing cost per bezel’
Your AD said that?
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This has been circulating among the wis for quite some time now. So much so, that I even took a shot in the dark on one of those 2023 W&W speculation threads, as I've been hearing this rumor time and again over the last couple of years. Just for the laughs. Because of course, if I can have this kind of information, then I guess it isn't of any real value. Despite everyone's claim of having heard from someone who knew of someone who had the inside scoop... Now with BLRO bezels nearing a 10 year run, I wouldn't be surprised if Rolex decided to discontinue the color scheme at some point, in favor of another one. But sure enough not because it's costlier or harder to mass produce. They've been churning them out by the 1000s regardless and every model / configuration becomes discontinued at some point.
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‘MY AD SAID’ is pretty much the weakest source you could have.
It is actually surprising the dribble they come out with - anyone who has spent a few hrs on the net researching a specific subject is generally far better informed than most (if not all) AD employees. |
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