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I beg to differ, but agree? The cyclops is certainly part of Rolex DNA but I hate it, it's a bit like a disability feature for those with bad vision, I much prefer the way that Rolex approached the concept with the Sea Dweller. Most Rolex watches I have owned and appreciated have not had a date comp

So you are 600m below sea level you will not be too interested about what time it is at home, by the same token, if you are away on business and you want to ring the kids at home you will not be concerned that your watch doesn't work at 600m? My choice was simple, a 114060

I find this larger JLC Reverso watch too big for my wrist? I wouldn't wear anything bigger than a Duo Time personally

I don't do wrist shots Bill, I think close up's of mens wrists look awful?

Studded tyres for the Irish market? maybe

In the early 70's I owned a Sub, since then I have had 3 Explorer 1's a GMT Master Pepsi, a Date Just and latterley a 40mm Explorer ll, having parted with my everyday wearer, a JLC Reverso Duo Time which I gave to our Daughter I needed another everyday watch. I looked at the options open to me from

The best in my opinion? I had a JLC Reverso Duo Time which have recently passed on to our Daughter, she loves it and she would have inherited it anyway when I died, it is nice to see her enjoying it whilst I am still around. Needless to say I then needed to replace it as it was my only watch, oh dea

I recently added a 114060 Ceramic Sub No Date, absolutely fabulous iconic model that continues the amasing history of this watch. I have been down the Explorer path on a couple of occasions and the GMT Master route but I have finally returned to where it all began for me, 40mm No Date, just tells th

Simply stunning

I have only just seen you article which I read with great interest. I have had 3 Explorer 1 watches, the first being a Plexiglass model in the 70's. I read somewhere that the Explorer was originally created for deep caving exploration but I guess the mountaineering community have taken over the reig