Pronunciation

[Pilotguy89]

Hey guys! I'm curious how everyone pronounces various Rolex model #'s like 14060M or 116200. I seem to say fourteen sixty M and eleven six two hundred. Let's hear how you pronounce them!

Andrew

[Brandon(phila)]

I seem to say for any 4 digit models 1675 / 1680 "Sixteen Seventy Five"...etc..

But with 5 and 6 digits I say "one one six two three three"

Not sure if I am correct or not, but that's how I say it....normally I just say GMT Master or Sub or SS DateJust or TT Datejust

[Ancestral Star]

For four-digit models I'm with Brandon, sixteen-O-three or sixteen-seventy-five.
For five-digit models I usually say one-forty-sixty-M or one-sixty-five-seventy.
For six-digit models I would probably say eleven-forty-sixty or eleven-sixty-two-hundred.

Not sure if there's really a right or a wrong
As long as the other WIS knows what you're talking about, it's all good

[james1787]

"One Four Oh Six Oh"

[CWIN]

One Four Zero Six Zero Em.

[SoonerTA]

Originally Posted by james1787

"One Four Oh Six Oh"

X2

Not sure for 6 numbers...Hmmm

[phils]

Originally Posted by james1787

"One Four Oh Six Oh"

Same here.

[Mike1066]

I say "No date Sub"... which is actually incorrect. It should be just "Sub" as the original sub didn't have a date and is therefore it is just a "Sub" and a "Sub Date".

[landroverking]

Originally Posted by Mike1066

I say "No date Sub"... which is actually incorrect. It should be just "Sub" as the original sub didn't have a date and is therefore it is just a "Sub" and a "Sub Date".

X2

I hate the term sub no date.

[louis redfoot]

i just say it in chinese

[iamthewalrus]

Originally Posted by guitarplaya1036

Hey guys! I'm curious how everyone pronounces various Rolex model #'s like 14060M or 116200. I seem to say fourteen sixty M and eleven six two hundred. Let's hear how you pronounce them!

Andrew

X2,

I say fourteen-o-sixty-em,

Totally agree, no such thing as a no date sub, there's submariners and submariner dates :p

[blue lion]

However you want.

[Danex]

Originally Posted by Mike1066

I say "No date Sub"... which is actually incorrect. It should be just "Sub" as the original sub didn't have a date and is therefore it is just a "Sub" and a "Sub Date".

Yes! I will follow this convention. As a Sub lover, it really works for me. Thanks

[cop414]

Originally Posted by james1787

"One Four Oh Six Oh"

This

[anothernewphone]

"One one six six one zero."

"Sixteen Seventy-five"

"One six six one zero."

Five and six-digit models get every digit pronounced separately, and the four-digit models get paired.

[Rashid.bk]

Seadweller = sixteen six hundred
SubC Date = eleven six six ten, and so on, like that.

[HogwldFLTR]

14-oh-60-em

[westsideclock]

Originally Posted by cwin

one four zero six zero em.

+1

[ltmgeller]

Did I detect a niner?

[DCheeta]

Interesting question.

1680 = sixteen eighty
14060 = fourteen oh sixty
216570 = two sixteen five seventy

[JustABreathAway]

Two one eight, two three eight

[joe100]

After working in aviation as long as I have, 0 is never ever pronounced as "oh", it's always "Zero". It's bizarre to my ears when I hear "14, oh, 60".

[anothernewphone]

"14 OH 60" just sounds weird. 1 4 0 6 0.

[kilyung]

1-40-60-M if pressed for the model number but I usually just say Sub unless I'm posting.

[azguy]

Serious WIS thread here

[mike]

Originally Posted by Mike1066

I say "No date Sub"... which is actually incorrect. It should be just "Sub" as the original sub didn't have a date and is therefore it is just a "Sub" and a "Sub Date".