Hello TRF. New Member and Intro.

[hn4rolex]

Hi TRF,

Sorry for the longish post.

New member here and my first post. I didn’t find this great community until very recently. I have been trying my best to read as much as I can...but most of my time ended up in the forsale sections:)

A quick and brief intro about myself and my Rolex/watch journey up til present. I am in my mid 40s and a tech executive in a tech company. I have always been happy wearing my Casios, Seikos, and Citizens as my every day watch and still am but have a few nicer watches to go with the them now.

My wife bought me my first Rolex about 4 years ago, a pre-owned DateJust 16234 from our jeweler who is also a Rolex AD. I have really enjoyed this watch. The following year we bought a pre-owned SD 16600 Y serial which was a trade-in at this same store.

Fast forward 2 years, I have bought 2 brand new rolexes from the same store a couple weeks ago. I wanted an everyday work watch that fits into my work environment. Something low key, not too flashy, not too big, not too sporty that I can wear every day to work in a business casual setting with mostly engineers. I was contemplating a Datejust 116200 36mm white stick dial oyster bracelet, a Milgauss Z blue dial, a 39mm Explorer, or a 39mm OP blue dial. Ultimately, the blue dial of the OP won me over. Still can’t get my mind off the other 3 options though.

While I was at the store, I decided to take a look at the SubC 114060 as I have been thinking pretty hard about a 14060M lately. Considering how the 14060M prices have gone lately, I ended up not passing up a brand new 114060 with a reasonable discount at the same time I bought the OP.

I wore the 114060 almost 24x7 the entire last week at the beach with my family. I gotta say, I used the glidelock clasp feature for adjustments at a minimum once a day during the week due to the weather fluctuating. I am now a huge fan of the glide lock feature!

I have really found a passion for watches and will slowly build up my collection. I am still thinking hard on a 14060M but the glidelock feature of the 114060 has tampered the urgency quite abit even though I feel that the 114060 wears a bit big for my 7.25” wrist. The lugs on either side of my wrist are extending off the side of my wrist.

On the Rolex front, I will probably over time add a pre-ceramic sub and maybe an all gold DD or GMT or Daytona at some point in the future. Also thinking about an omega moonwatch because I like how it looks on me when I tried it on.

On the dressier side of things, I really like JLC Reverso Grand Date/Master Control Date/MUT moonphase/Master Geographic but haven't decided which one I like the most. I also really really like the look of Patek Philippe 5296G as a simple and elegant dress watch but quite a bit more money.

Any recommendations on a good gmt/dual-time watch that is somewhat low key and work well for the traveling part of business travel as well as flexible enough to dress up with suit or dresspants/shirt/blazer for business meetings during those trips?

Any thoughts/suggestion/feedback on next pieces from here to build out my collection?

Thanks in advance!

[dbhak22]

Welcome! Looks like you got a nice collection growing....let me be one of the first to warn you that you've found a very dangerous place here, haha! We're a bunch of enablers, :)

But as you have already discovered, there is a WEALTH of information here and I myself have learned so much in just a few years reading and reading through various posts. I'm also in tech so welcome from a fellow "tech buddy".

Looks like you got the wrist shot thing down pretty well so you're going to fit in just nicely!

WELCOME.

[rmlovett1]

Welcome! Nice collection you’ve got going! I think you may like a pre-ceramic GMT as well.

[KBM]

Welcome to TRF! Nice group you have there!

To answer your question, my current favorite GMT pieces are the following:

- 116710 in any flavor;
- PAM 233;
- Patek 5164.

[Tangier11]

Welcome aboard!!

[The Libertine]

TRF welcomes you!

[Fmnunes2803]

Welcome!!!


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[GerardoG]

Welcome to TRF!

[TheRolexKingofLV]

Welcome from Las Vegas

[sensui]

Thanks for sharing and welcome.

[hn4rolex]

Thank you all for the welcome! There's just an amazing wealth of information here and great group of members! Everything I've read so far have been extremely helpful and fun!

[wiggindude]

Nice collection so far.

[rolehex]

Welcome. I think the Reverso would be a great addition to your collection.

[BNA/LION]

Welcome to TRF!

[stevedssd]

Welcome to the forum, you've already been busy without any enabling from here!

For a GMT I'd suggest a 16710 and get all three inserts for versatility