![]() ![]() In 2023, the Rolex Milgauss was discontinued. ![]() For collectors and enthusiasts pursuing these models, WatchBox’s ever-changing inventory of pre-owned Rolex watches may feature these in our inventory. In 2020, Rolex discontinued a few fan-favorites like the Rolex Hulk Reference 116610LV and Rolex Smurf Reference 116619. Color choices include blue, green, orange, oxblood, peach, pink, purple, red, salmon, and turquoise. These dials are inspired by the Stella lacquered dials seen in Day-Dates from the 1970s. Colorful dials also made an appearance in Rolex’s new line of Rolex Oyster Perpetual watches in the latter half of 2020. Recent Watch Releases and Discontinuations from RolexĪ few favorite releases from Rolex over recent years include: the Batman in 2013 and Pepsi in 2016 with new Cerachrom bezels and the Rolex Daytona with a ceramic bezel in 2016. If you wish to buy used Rolex watches online, we offer a wide selection of authentic WatchBox-Certified Rolex watches backed by a 15-month warranty and white glove service. Are you ready to purchase a pre-owned Rolex watch? WatchBox is a leading global buyer, seller and trader of Rolex watches. WatchBox is the global leader in Guaranteed Pre-Owned Rolex watches for sale. ![]() From sport models such as the legendary Submariner, GMT-Master II, Explorer, and Daytona to dressier Datejust and Day-Date (Presidential) models, there is a Rolex for every purpose. Moreover, Patek Philippe is also about to open up a new space at their manufacture in Geneva, at an investment of 500 million.One brand wears the crown as king of the luxury watch world. In a 2014 interview with Le Temps newspaper, company president Thierry Stern reportedly said Patek Philippe might have to leave Geneva or be put on sale if its tax burden wasn’t reduced: was he making a rhetorical statement? Switzerland is after all one of the most competitive economies in the world (it held the crown for nearly a decade until it was recently relegated to second place by a resurgent USA, according to the 2018 edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report). In any case, as often as such rumours turn up, they are also procedurally swatted down, and company representatives told us at an event today saying that the Stern family has no reason to sell the company. Much of this will be lost in translation were Patek Philippe to be sold to some faceless corporation, conglomerate or foundation. Family is central to the Patek Philippe magic, not least for how its ads immortalised the (Patek Philippe) wristwatch as no mere accessory but a precious heirloom we do not own, but serve as custodians, passing it from one generation to the next. It’s one of the oldest family-owned watchmaking companies in the business, competing in a rarified strata of the watchmaking industry dominated by huge luxury conglomerates. Watch brands change hands like trading cards, that’s just business, but Patek Philippe isn’t just any watchmaking company, it’s practically watchmaking royalty – not the type starring in drunken stories on tabloid pages, but royalty that is admired with old school reverence from a bygone era. Citing analysts from Hamburg-based investment bank Berenberg who heard it in turn from “industry talk”, the report stated that Patek Philippe could be put up for sale, fetching somewhere between 7 to 9 billion euros (USD$8-10 billion). ![]() Another year at a watch fair in Switzerland, and like the year before it, itching ears caught whispers of Patek Philippe being likely up for sale, and whisper coalesced into speculation when this broke into the open in a Bloomberg story published yesterday (21 January). ![]()
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