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Plus just going on that vid full of omissions and inaccuracies and like noted more about advertising. For a start Rolex subs did not inflate in value every year since their release back in the 50's. That's a nonsense. That really only kicked off in the 90's with the coming of the interwebs and watch collecting going from a very niche hobby to a much more populist one. Even then it's only really come to be true in the last fifteen maybe twenty years and really hit over the last ten. Hell, I remember a time when you couldn't give away vintage Daytonas. And a time when early Rolex Oysters and Bubblebacks were more valuable than any of their SS sport models.

He also suggests that the rotating bezeled, black dialed, luminous indexed dive watch was a Rolex invention and it certainly was not. Though a notion that has gained much support particularly among Rolex fans many of whom seem to think the company invented everything and the company is happy to not say anything in contradiction. They didn't. First waterproof watch? Nope. First automatic? Nope. First rotating bezel? Nope. First screwdown crown? Nope. First date window? Nope. First GMT? Nope, First dive watch? Nope. Indeed about the only thing I can think of that Rolex did come up with first was adding a day window to the date window and the helium release valve. Though that was in partnership with Doxa. Oh and the first wristwatch sent for chronometer testing way back at the start.

The big problem with most watch journalism and dealers and talking heads is a very incestuous relationship with the Swiss industry, fostered for many decades, so you tend to only ever get an advertising puff piece fronted by people happy to pass it on un critiqued.