Rolex missed opportunity with tudor pelagos poll

[Chewbacca]

been thinking about this since the weekend while tinkering with my dssd...

the fact is, the pelagos is by far a historic shift/move for a company like rolex. we all know its the first all titanium (% composition of titanium unknown but for the most part, its titanium (einstein-wis' will know what i mean)) model from the manufacturer BUT, did they miss an opportunity to launch it as a Rolex Submariner Ti?? lets face it, the b-bay alone was more than enough to build chatter about the Tudor brand and most here seem to prefer the b-bay anyway.

think about this before the assuming i'm slapping tudor... the pelagos while popular now, may go the way of the dodo since the Tudor brand is not supported with the same gusto rolex is. there's also no US market support or spillover marketing potential. there's even the issue with the ETA calibre association with swatch group (nothing wrong with eta but its not rolex and i believe rolex wouldn't lose sleep if swatch went bankrupt tomorrow). why wouldn't rolex go all out and put in a #3035 with the latest innovations, rolex badge and excite heavily invested rolex ad's with a new product for their rolex displays and loyal collectors?

i for one, think they missed an opportunity here. its a great tudor but imho, it would have been legendary if it were a rolex.

here's the poll Q,

did rolex miss an opportunity to launch an all Ti Sub or a NEW rolex model line altogether OR did they do the right thing launching it as a Tudor?


looking forward to the POLL numbers and comments! and this is by NO means a knock against tudor!


cheers!