Thursday, March 27, 2025

Countdown to Watches and Wonders 2025



WATCHES AND WONDERS
ROLEX COLLECTION 2025 




A NEW ROLEX BRACELET?


Rolex just dropped this new teaser video on Friday morning around 10:00AM CET, and I couldn't help but notice it appears to showcase a new Rolex Jubilee style bracelet I don't recall every seeing before. A normal, standard Jubilee bracelet features half round links, but this model features what appear to be squared off, flat links? Hmmmmn!?!! 

The more I look at this image, I can't help but notice it looks like it might be made out of Titanium, and me first impression is that it reminds me of the design language from the original Oyster Quartz Jubilee bracelets from the 1970s, which were really cool looking....



The RETURN OF THE OYSTERQUARTZ?

How bizarre would it be if Rolex brought back the Oyster Quartz models??? I could not helps but notice the links on the bracelet in the teaser video, which are pictured above features similar geometry to the Rolex OysterQuartz Jubilee Bracelet  geometry with the chamfered flat end links coupled with elongated, flat center links:


    “The vision recurs; the eastern sun has a second rise; history repeats her tale unconsciously, and goes off into a mystic rhyme; ages are prototypes of other ages, and the winding course of time brings us round to the same spot again.”  

—Mystic Rhyme 1845




FLAT EDGE NEW CASE DESIGN?

The teaser video appears to show a Rolex case that features flat edges, which is seen below. Maybe I am hallucinating, but once again, it sure odes reid me of the OysterQuarts case pictured above...




TITANIUM JUBILEE BRACLET?

The more I look at this new Rolex bracelet design, the more it looks like it's made out of titanium. Sorry, if I seem to be having a Rainman moment...




ROLEX SYLOXI

The teaser video also shows a Rolex Syloxi. What is a Rolex Syloxi you ask? This might be a new proprietary Rolex silicon Syloxi hairspring might become more standard, perhaps coupled with a natural escapement...



ONE MORE THANG
NEW ROLEX BUILDING 
New York City

I watched the teaser video again, and I think I noticed an interesting detail. Back in 2023, Captain Danny published a story on the design of the new Rolex USA Building that was being erected in New York City and was replacing the older, classic Rolex USA Building

In the teaser video it show a corner of Central Park in New York City and it says "HERE AND NOW", with the camera pointed in the general direction of where the new Rolex U.S.A. headquarters is located at 665 Fifth Avenue in Midtown, Manhattan. This seems a little unusual, as I can't seem to find the actual building structure in the video image, but I assume that's what its demarcating. Apparently the new Rolex Building reached its halfway mark back in December of 2025, which was 3 months ago. I did some research at it said the Rolex Building is scheduled to be completed in December of 2025.


The illustrations below, if I understand it correctly shows a well tailored gentleman wearing a fedora strutting through Central Park and the Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch demarcates where the original Rolex building was in New York City.



Rolex Teaser Video #2

Rolex just released this second teaser video"