All 4 New Rolex 2020 Collection Updates Plus One Watch You Might Have Missed

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While 2019 brought subtle improvements for Rolex’s mainstay watches, a rocky 2020 first brought uncertainty – first we weren’t sure Rolex would release anything at all given the pandemic, which was followed by widely talked about updates for four of the crown’s pillar collections in September.

Rolex rarely, if ever, changes its winning game, and 2020 was also more about those subtle changes for improvement and perfection than anything revolutionary.

Legibility and wearability remained the name of the game in these new releases, underscoring what Rolex does best: gradual evolution in watch design and technical details with the aim of maximizing owner satisfaction by offering improved products that retain the same core values that drew consumers’ interest in the first place.

As Rolex enthusiasts are undoubtedly aware, the brand’s philosophy has long focused on improving and perfecting every detail of its watches. This ongoing commitment is one reason for the overwhelming success and reputation that Rolex enjoys worldwide.

So without further ado, here are the four principle new watches Rolex introduced in 2020 as well as one surprise variation in the Datejust 31 collection that you may have missed.

Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner Date

The updated generation of Submariners became one of social media’s causes for frenzy following the introduction of Rolex’s 2020 watches.

The original Submariner was Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf’s foray into deep water resistance: the first Submariner, which appeared in 1953, was the first diver’s watch rated to 100 meters. And just a year later that was increased to 200 meters.

In 1969 the Submariner received a date window, and by 1979 it could dive down to a then incredible 300 meters.

As mentioned previously, there is no compelling reason for Rolex to make completely “new” versions of these watches rather than continually improving them. So the changes between this generation and the last are quite minimal.

What has changed ever so slightly are the new Submariner’s proportions. The diameter minimally increased in the 2020 generation from 40.86 mm to 41.3 with the goal of slightly boosting presence on the wrist.

The lugs were made 0.5 mm thinner, and the crown protection is ever so slightly smaller. The distance between the lugs increased from 20 to 21 mm.

The dial was also slightly reworked, with the biggest change being the hands, which are now taken from the Deepsea model.

The green dial was discontinued, making the new dial on the stainless steel model with green bezel a black one (see photo above).

The Submariner Date is currently available in steel with either a black dial and black Cerachrom bezel or green Cerachrom bezel. It is also available in a variety of gold combinations: two two-tone (steel and yellow gold) models featuring a blue dial with blue bezel or black dial with black bezel; yellow gold with blue dial and blue bezel or black dial and black bezel; and white gold with blue bezel and black dial.

For more information, please visit www.rolex.com/watches/submariner/all-models.

Quick Facts Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner

Case: 41.3 x 12.4 mm, stainless steel with Cerachrom bezel, water resistance 300 meters

Movement: automatic Caliber 3230, 70-hour power reserve, blue Parachrom hairspring, 28,800 vph/4 Hz frequency; precision +/- 2 seconds per day after casing (C.O.S.C. chronometer certification plus Rolex certification)

Functions: hours, minutes, sweep seconds

Price: €7,550

Remark: five-year warranty

Quick Facts Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner Date

Case: 41.3 x 12.4 (12.2 in gold) mm, stainless steel or stainless steel and 18-karat yellow gold or white gold with Cerachrom bezel, water resistance 300 meters

Movement: automatic Caliber 3235, 70-hour power reserve, blue Parachrom hairspring, 28,800 vph/4 Hz frequency; precision +/- 2 seconds per day after casing (C.O.S.C. chronometer certification plus Rolex certification)

Functions: hours, minutes, sweep seconds; date

Price: €8,300 (steel); €13,000 (yellow gold and steel); €33,700 (yellow gold); €36,200 (white gold)

Remark: five-year warranty

Rolex Oyster Perpetual 41 mm and 36 mm

Of all the new variations launched in 2020, it was the Oyster Perpetual in 36 mm and 41 mm that perhaps garnered the most social media attention. No doubt due to the Instagram-friendly jazzy dials in seven new colors.

The Oyster Perpetual was previously available in 36 and 39 mm sizes; for 2020, the 39 mm size was discontinued and replaced by 41 mm.

The dials of these new Oyster Perpetual are available in seven new colors. Two of these offer more subdued hues: one has a sunray-finish silver dial with hands and hour markers in 18-karat yellow gold for a two-tone look while the other comes in a “bright” sunray-finish black with hands and hour markers in 18-karat white gold.

However, it was the other five new lacquered dials that had social media buzzing: candy pink, turquoise blue, a bright mustard yellow, coral red, and a hue that is practically British racing green. As GaryG mentioned in Why I Bought It: Rolex Stella-Inspired Oyster Perpetual 41 With Turquoise Blue Dial, several social media voices likened them to some of Nomos Glashütte’s colorful Tetra models, but in reality the inspiration was Rolex’s own historical Stella dials.

Gary was quite taken with the new turquoise blue dial variation and purchased one for himself with the explanation, “The core appeal of this watch to me is that it is similar and different at the same time. Similar enough to the vivid appearance of the vintage Stella pieces to be firmly rooted in the brand’s traditions, but at the same time different from both the vast sea of Rolex watches made every year and from other pieces in my collection.”

These five cheerful colors are also available in the 31 mm size, however the pink dial is not available in 41 mm.

Further reading: Why I Bought It: Rolex Stella-Inspired Oyster Perpetual 41 With Turquoise Blue Dial

For more information, please visit www.rolex.com/watches/oyster-perpetual.

Quick Facts Rolex Oyster Perpetual 41

Case: 41 mm, steel with monobloc middle case, screwed-down crown and solid case back; sapphire crystal front crystal; waterproof to 100 m

Dial: Stella-style lacquer dials in yellow, green, turquoise blue, and coral red; metallic dials in bright black, bright blue, and silver; applied gold batons and crown logo; printed indices and markings; batons, hour, and minute hands with luminous blue Chromalight

Functions: hours, minutes, (hacking) seconds

Price: $5,900 / €5,500

Remark: five-year warranty

Rolex Sky-Dweller

Introduced in 2012, the Sky-Dweller is currently Rolex’s most complicated watch, and it is also the most complicated in-house watch the brand has manufactured.

The Sky-Dweller, however, hides its complexity in the simplicity of how it is used: despite featuring both an annual calendar and a second time zone, the Sky-Dweller is as utilitarian as its less complicated compatriots. Its annual calendar makes it a very practical timepiece.

The annual calendar offers the simplicity of automatically getting the lengths of the months right, but ignores the most complicated of them all, February, which still needs to be manually corrected. This is advantageous because the gearing is less complex and the watch’s retail price reflects this.

The Sky-Dweller was originally only available in precious metal, coming out in a long-awaited Rolesor (Rolex jargon for stainless steel and white gold) version in 2017.

Rolex introduced another new element to the Sky-Dweller line in 2020: an Oyster-Flex rubber bracelet. This marks the first time that Rolex has made an Oyster-Flex for a “non-professional” sports watch – meaning a “classic” Rolex watch as opposed to one of the tool watches – and the first for one of it’s gold watches. It is only the fourth time that this bracelet has been added to a Rolex collection at all.

The Oyster-Flex bracelet combines the robustness of a metal bracelet with the comfort, aesthetics, and flexibility of a rubber strap. This patented bracelet comprises flexible titanium and nickel-alloy blades covered with durable black elastomer. This version also has an 18-karat gold folding Oysterclasp with Glidelock extension system, allowing the bracelet to easily extend up to 15 mm in six increments of about 2.5 mm each without using tools.

The new Oyster-Flex bracelet is being introduced with the 18-karat yellow and pink gold Sky-Dweller models only. The yellow gold model has a black dial, while the pink gold (“Everose”) model has a brown or cream-colored dial.

For more information, please visit www.rolex.com/watches/sky-dweller.

Quick Facts Rolex Sky-Dweller

Case: 42 x 14.1 mm, yellow or pink gold, rotating Ring Command bezel for function selection, 100 m water resistance

Movement: automatic Caliber 9001, 33 x 8 mm, Parachrom hairspring, Paraflex shock absorption, precision +/- 2 seconds per day after casing (C.O.S.C. chronometer certification plus Rolex certification), 72-hour power reserve, 4 Hz/28,800 vph frequency

Functions: hours, minutes, sweep seconds; second time zone, annual calendar with date and month

Price: €36,400 (yellow gold); €37,800 (pink gold)

Remark: five-year warranty

Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust 31

Rolex calls its iconic Datejust, first introduced in 1945, “the archetype of the classic watch thanks to functions and aesthetics that never go out of fashion.” And for watch lovers, nothing further needs to be said.

The Datejust’s excellent reputation, now active for more than 70 years, can be chalked up to a formula for success comprising the robust Oyster case, chronometric precision, a classic design, and the signature date indication at 3 o’clock magnified by the Cyclops lens on the crystal, a Rolex invention from 1953.

After having unleashed two new variants in 2019, in 2020 Rolex offers Datejust fans another three variations in Rolesor (stainless steel and white gold), fun color variations, and one in stainless steel.

One prominent Rolesor variation features a vibrant aubergine-colored sunray-finished dial whose Roman numeral VI sparkles with the brilliance of 11 brilliant-cut diamonds. Adding to its shine, it also boasts a diamond-set bezel containing 46 brilliant-cut diamonds.

The minty green dial model adds a fresh zest to this proven classic, whose cool look is topped off by the iconic Datejust fluted bezel and echoed by the Jubilee bracelet. Another new variant in stainless steel features a more subdued beige dial.

My favorite of the new quartet by far – and one that doesn’t appear to have gotten much, if any, media attention – is Reference 278344, which according to the Rolex website can be customized to feature a pink or aubergine-colored dial with a sparkling numeral VI and a bezel set with a sprinkling of diamonds.

The new versions of the Datejust 31 are equipped with automatic Caliber 2236 featuring signature Rolex inventions including the silicon Syloxi hairspring and a paramagnetic nickel-phosphorus escape wheel. The oscillator is fitted with the brand’s Paraflex shock protections, further increasing the movement’s shock resistance.

This Oyster case, water resistant to 100 meters and very femininely sized at 31 mm, is now slightly modified in its proportions for a perfect fit. Altogether, it is available in numerous dial colors and bezel/bracelet variations. This set of watches completes the redesign of this model begun in 2016.

Like all Rolex watches, the Datejust 31 is adjusted to the Superlative Chronometer certification defined by Rolex in 2015. Applied to the fully assembled watch, this comprises a series of tests Rolex conducts in its own laboratories that guarantee particularly high performance in terms of precision, power reserve, and water resistance.

The precision of a Rolex Superlative Chronometer is on the order of −2 /+2 seconds per day, more than double the accuracy required of an officially certified C.O.S.C. chronometer.

For more information, please visit www.rolex.com/watches/datejust.

Quick Facts Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust 31

Case: 31 x 11 mm, Rolesor (stainless steel and white gold) or steel

Movement: automatic Caliber 2236, 4 Hz/28,800 vph frequency, power reserve 55 hours, Syloxi silicon hairspring, nickel-phosphorus escape wheel, precision +/- 2 seconds per day after casing (C.O.S.C. chronometer certification plus Rolex certification)

Functions: hours, minutes, seconds; date

Price: €6,050 (Ref. 278240 beige dial/steel); €7,300 (Ref. 278274 green dial/Rolesor); €11,750 (Ref. 278344 pink dial/diamond sprinkle on bezel/Rolesor); €14,650 (Ref. 278384 aubergine dial/diamond bezel/Rolesor)

Remark: five-year international guarantee

Rumor of Patek Philippe Nautilus 5712A Delisting Sends Price Soaring 20 Percent

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It’s no surprise that the price of Patek Philippe‘s 5711 has exploded since its discontinuation, but now another model from the Nautilus line is experiencing a bump in price.

This news is largely contributed to a rumor floating around that Patek Philippe could be de-listing its more complicated 5712A model. The watch sports a moonphase, month, and power reserve indicator along with a small seconds display. On the secondary watch marketplace Chrono24, the rumor has already affected prices, sending the sale price up 20 percent from its $80,000 USD price dip in the summer of 2020 to now closer to $115,000 USD. This could also slightly be because of the 5711’s ridiculous price which has left many seeking alternatives.

In other watch news, Bobby Shmurda rocks Rolex Sky-Dweller as the first watch since his release.

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危機、就是轉機！金融投資常有「危機入市」的概念，而越是消費景氣嚴峻的時刻，越能展現出精品品牌在消費者心中的真正「行情」。本地鐘表網站Horoguides參考多個國內外知名通路，並統整出2021年版本、勞力士「炒價」增幅最高的Top 20熱門款，包含Daytona、Submariner、新款Oyster Perpetual 41毫米、GMT-Master II、Sky-Dweller等多個經典系列全數上榜，展現表中「王者」的強勢身價。

漲幅最高的首推俗稱「彩虹圈」、玫瑰金彩色寶石版本的Daytona 116595RBOW，市價漲幅約154.7%，由於前一代前黃金材質的116598RBOW受到市場熱烈追捧，目前玫瑰金版已處於一表難求的發燙狀態，而Daytona的其他不同材質或表面版本也雄踞了Top 10的Top2（105%）與Top 4（90.4%），是ROLEX王者陣容中的超人氣款式。

Top 3的Submariner 126610LV（94.3%），綠色陶瓷圈是勞力士的經典「定番」色，身為2020年九月新品上市的126610LV，錶徑微增至41mm、搭載動力儲存70小時的3235自動上鍊機芯，果然火速挺進到Top 3榜位；而相當實用、具有兩地時間功能的GMT-Master II 126710BLRO具有陶瓷材質藍、紅雙色表圈，並改搭配Jubilee五珠帶則拿下了Top 6，漲幅約83％，另一只藍黑雙色圈、被趣稱為「蝙蝠俠」的126710BLNR（45.9%）則拿下Top 8，可見GMT兩地時間功能在收藏家心中佔有一席之地。

最後Top 10則有複雜功能的Sky-Dweller 326934（42%），具備年曆功能與7項專利的Sky-Dweller是品牌目前最複雜，也實用的款式，白金加精鋼搭配藍色表面，讓擁有一只勞力士複雜功能款式，相對輕易入手。

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Top 10：

Sky-Dweller 326934 / 定價49萬1,500元、市價約↑42%

Top 9：

Submariner 124060 / 定價26萬8,000元、市價約↑42.6%

Top 8：

GMT-Master II 126710BLNR / 定價32萬,500元、市價約↑45.9%

Top 7：

Submariner 126610LN / 定價30萬3,000、市價約↑47.2%

Top 6：

GMT-Master II 126710BLRO / 定價32萬500元、市價約↑83%

Top 5：

Oyster Perpetual 41 124300 / 定價19萬5,500元、市價約↑27% ~ 87%

Top 4：

Daytona 116500LN / 定價43萬5,500元、市價約↑90.4%

Top 3：

Submariner 126610LV / 定價31萬7,000元、市價約↑94.3%

Top 2：

Daytona 116500LN / 定價43萬5,500元、市價約↑105%

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