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View Poll Results: How many in the wild?
0 - Never seen one 127 36.39%
1 69 19.77%
2 50 14.33%
3 or more 103 29.51%
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Old 10 May 2024, 09:18 PM   #31
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I wear mine daily but it’s mostly always hidden under a sleeve. No one sees it.
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Old 10 May 2024, 09:32 PM   #32
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I see them routinely at watch club events and at my AD, on customers wrists.
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Old 10 May 2024, 09:37 PM   #33
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I’ve only seen one 126710BLRO other than mine.
I do see the 5 digit GMTs here and there.
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Old 10 May 2024, 10:18 PM   #34
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Spotted a few in Singapore recently in Ion, Taka and Bugis.

Haven't noticed any when traveling to France, USA, Italy. Not even in lounges.

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Old 10 May 2024, 11:04 PM   #35
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Only once and that was at a Rolex Basel party in 2019.





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Old 10 May 2024, 11:25 PM   #36
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Once at a coffee shop. I was never into the watch, but that changed then. It’s a great looking watch. It’s got (for lack of a better word) presence.
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Old 11 May 2024, 01:30 AM   #37
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I’ve seen maybe a dozen or so out in the wild. It’s clearly a very popular reference.


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Old 11 May 2024, 01:37 AM   #38
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I live in Seattle, the only time I see people wearing nice watches is when we vacation in Naples Florida. I can go months without seeing anyone with a Rolex.
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Old 11 May 2024, 01:43 AM   #39
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Hey I know those wrists !!
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Old 11 May 2024, 01:45 AM   #40
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I saw saw several at a pilots' convention in Palm Srings in February.
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Old 11 May 2024, 01:46 AM   #41
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Old 11 May 2024, 02:25 AM   #42
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Ceramic Pepsi? Just once, and surprisingly, I saw one on a young guy ( early twenties? ) with his skateboard in a parking lot. Did a double take….could’ve been fake but I couldn’t tell and was really studying it. Really nice looker.
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Old 11 May 2024, 03:17 AM   #43
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I see more Daytonas than Pepsis.
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Old 11 May 2024, 03:31 AM   #44
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I think I've seen it 3, maybe 4 times, since I started looking for them on people's wrist around 2019.
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Old 11 May 2024, 03:39 AM   #45
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Old 11 May 2024, 04:02 AM   #46
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I've been scouting everywhere I've been since 2019 or so. For BLRO:
1. In costco at honolulu, some young asian guy had one walking in
2. United Polaris Lounge, older Asian gentlemen had it on
3. Lisbon, Portugal older European guy had it on, dressed very well
4. My own wrist all the time!

I live in bay area where tons of people have money and have never seen one out in wild here. Also keep in mind who knows how many are real in terms of rolex watches. I've spoken with a watchmaker here who services a ton of watches for all brands and he estimates 6 or 7 out of 10 rolex watches are fake which is a crazy high number
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Old 11 May 2024, 04:43 AM   #47
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Never other then a local buddies, he purchased a naked example from a local dealer.
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Old 11 May 2024, 04:47 AM   #48
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Old 11 May 2024, 04:48 AM   #49
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I've seen quite a few
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Old 11 May 2024, 05:13 AM   #50
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Last Summer traveling in Germany, I saw two. I distinctly remember where I saw one as I was blown away by the look of the watch. A gentlemen in Munich, sunny day in a beer garden. I said to my self, what a beautiful watch.
The other was on a lady's wrist.

Thankfully my AD came through for me, and right in time for my 40th 5 months ago!
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Old 11 May 2024, 05:18 AM   #51
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No not the steel version, but I have seen the white gold version (blue dial) in the wild.
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Old 11 May 2024, 05:20 AM   #52
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Only once and it was being worn by a gentleman browsing in my AD. We had a brief conversation and he told me how lucky he felt to have it
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Old 11 May 2024, 07:25 AM   #53
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Have you seen a 126710BLRO in the wild?

I saw one at the local supermarket. I was standing in line and the guy in front of me had one on. I have to admit, it is much more stunning in person than what you see on the internet.


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Old 11 May 2024, 08:08 AM   #54
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Old 11 May 2024, 09:41 AM   #55
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I wear mine daily but I've never seen anybody else with one. I see a ton of Submariners, Daytonas, and BLNRs. Have also seen several Explorer IIs surprisingly.
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Old 11 May 2024, 10:40 AM   #56
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Old 11 May 2024, 11:39 AM   #57
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I've been scouting everywhere I've been since 2019 or so. For BLRO:
1. In costco at honolulu, some young asian guy had one walking in
2. United Polaris Lounge, older Asian gentlemen had it on
3. Lisbon, Portugal older European guy had it on, dressed very well
4. My own wrist all the time!

I live in bay area where tons of people have money and have never seen one out in wild here. Also keep in mind who knows how many are real in terms of rolex watches. I've spoken with a watchmaker here who services a ton of watches for all brands and he estimates 6 or 7 out of 10 rolex watches are fake which is a crazy high number
I was gonna make the point about all the less-than-authentic Rolex watches riding around on the general public’s wrists. This may account for how many more white dial SS Daytonas have been seen in the wild vs BLRO, because based on secondary market pricing VS. MSRP the Daytona is even more rare. There are some shockingly convincing super clones of the Daytona out there and if someone is the type of person to buy a fake and wear it like the real thing, might as well wear a fake of a more expensive piece for the faux flexing lol.
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Old 11 May 2024, 09:21 PM   #58
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I live in Seattle, the only time I see people wearing nice watches is when we vacation in Naples Florida. I can go months without seeing anyone with a Rolex.
The only place I’ve seen Rolls Royce Phantoms parallel parking on the street.
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Old 11 May 2024, 09:38 PM   #59
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None. But now I'm retired and travelling for 6 months of the year I see very few Rolex. In fact only 2 Date justs and one TT Sub this year!
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Old 11 May 2024, 10:28 PM   #60
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One time, on a guy walking down the street in Napa. It was a real stunner, bezel gleaming in the sun, he saw me looking and we exchanged a nod. I had just got married maybe a month or two before that, and my wife started getting pissed thinking I was checking out the guy's girlfriend, then fully disgusted when I started talking in watch model numbers again.
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