Let's hear some serious Baselworld 2019 Rolex predictions

[Just1More]

I am saying COKE on a Jubilee

[jsausley]

New movement Submariner, likely in PM first and then steel to follow. I'm guessing Date only.

BLNR discontinued. White gold Pepsi officially discontinued. Coke on oyster in white gold. Steel jubilee to follow.

[ragsk]

Ceramic PM Daytona with PM bracelet

[WJGESQ]

Once they get the red right-Batman dies.

[JacksonStone]

I predict someone will start a thread for Basel '20 the next day, just like someone did for Basel '19 this year.

https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=593428

[avega357]

Originally Posted by venron

I am saying COKE on a Jubilee

Yes please


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[avega357]

Originally Posted by ragsk

Ceramic PM Daytona with PM bracelet

Yes please


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[037]

BLRO on Oyster and another bi-color GMT on Oyster.

[Just1More]

[QUOTE=JacksonStone;9216894]I predict someone will start a thread for Basel '20 the next day, just like someone did for Basel '19 this year.

That thread has grown tired...

[LesserBlackDog]

SS YM with ceramic bezel insert... I hope.

[wristmatic]

updated submariner movement

[watchfan0529]

Explorer II with ceramic bezel, Submariner with new movement and slimmer lugs, Milgauss with rotatable bezel, Steel Day-Date!

[antoflo]

Everose Sub with new movement

[Ar_Mi]

Originally Posted by jsausley

New movement Submariner, likely in PM first and then steel to follow. I'm guessing Date only.

BLNR discontinued. White gold Pepsi officially discontinued. Coke on oyster in white gold. Steel jubilee to follow.

Agreed with everything except for the coke in WG.

[kauffee]

Rolex went all-in on the GMT in 2018. I would be surprised if they did anything more than updating the whole line to 3285.

Sub updates seem reasonable. I’m not convinced Rolex will stick with the old PM->TT->SS model that they’ve used in the past. I wouldn’t be shocked if SS got the first round of updates.

My dark horse is an ExpII with black cerachrome bezel with a radial brushed finish. I think there was a mock-up someone did of this on RPR or somewhere. It looked great.

[ArtNouveau]

New movements might go into some existing GMT models but I don’t see them doing another all new version a year after the BLRO. Submariner could be due for an “all new” version, but would it be PM first or all versions drop at once?
Something completely different a la Skydweller?

[zjd168]

1. Black Sub date with new movement
2. Gmt black with new movement or discontinued with BLNR, no coke
3. 36 ss dj/ DD with new movement

[LesserBlackDog]

Originally Posted by antoflo

Everose Sub with new movement

With a chocolate dial or bezel??

[robjohna]

Originally Posted by jsausley

New movement Submariner, likely in PM first and then steel to follow. I'm guessing Date only.

BLNR discontinued. White gold Pepsi officially discontinued. Coke on oyster in white gold. Steel jubilee to follow.

Nice! I would agree


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[robjohna]

Originally Posted by avega357

Yes please


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I would have to get one


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[Valedictorian]

Extending the movement update to existing lines.

Utopia: Day-Date in stainless steel. Not going to happen but that would be a-never-seen-before hit. Imagine a SS DD with the green anniversary dial... damn!

[JacksonStone]

Originally Posted by venron

That thread has grown tired...

Fair enough. I'll make/add to the same predictions I have in every other Basel '19 thread up to now. (There's been more than one.)

- Better than 50% chance a new Submariner drops. Will be the 12661x, with 3235 movement. Following the pattern of the GMT this year, case refinements will be minimal, and virtually indiscernible from the 11661x series. Because of this, Rolex will put out new metal/color combos, and will not update existing models this year. If this holds true, then updates of existing models will begin in 2020. A red line on black dial will not happen until at least 2028.

- Hulk will be missing from the catalog price list, resuming a frenzy of speculation it has been discontinued, which will endure up until Basel '20, when it actually does get phased out.

- The existing 11671x GMTs will begin to be updated with the 3285. 33% chance BLNR is discontinued outright. 33% chance it will receive new movement and be reissued as the 126710 BLNR. 33% chance it isn't due for any change until a later Basel. 1% chance something else happens I didn't think of.

- Coke fanboys will continue to predict it will happen, only to be as bitterly disappointed as Star Wars fans in the '90s who had faith the Lucas prequels wouldn't suck.

- More DJ combos.

- Rolex will do something else to piss off PM owners.

- Yachtmaster, yadda yadda. (Rolex has no clear idea what that line should look like, so why should I?)

- No new Explorer II until 2021, which will be its 50th anniversary. All Photoshop mockups of a ceramic version between now and then will only serve as big clock-teases for the people dying to see it happen. (See Lucas-prequel simile above.)

- None of the above will be available at ADs before Basel '20, except for the DJs, which will be available at an AD near you beginning March 27, 2019.

- Some newbie will start another Basel '19 thread, claiming this one is tired, and all effort put in here will be buried and forgotten.

[mickyd329]

Whatever it is they come out with, I'm sure I'll be calling my AD on day 1. Lol..

[HONDABBQ]

WG or SS YM with Black ceramic bezel.

Yes please.

[AK DeepSea]

I heard from a very reputable source that since they cannot keep up with the SS professional demand, they will be offering a Rolex digital watch.

[Wcdhtwn]

Gold Daytona's on gold bracelets will get ceramic bezels.

Edit: Or said more clearly/concisely, all Daytona's get ceramic bezels.

[Oceanblue]

Another vote for Explorer II with ceramic bezel.

[kauffee]

I’m actually hoping Rolex follows the trend and pulls out of Baselworld. It would be more fun to have them release their new watches randomly throughout the year when they are done. Right now we get new releases on one day per year, then have to wait another year for anything new.

[frankfrazetta]

There are NO serious, informed Rolex related, Basel World speculations or information.

[frankfrazetta]

Steel, gold, platinum. All very hard to get and then you have to smelt them, create a unique alloy . . . What a massive hasslel. Plastics. Word to the wise. Plastics. Easy, fast injection molded cases. Yep, that's definitely what we will see from the big R from Basel World.