For well over a couple weeks it has been the prediction of fellow forum members @ TZRF that Rolex would release a ‘new’ Sea-Dweller (SD for short) to commemorate their 100th year anniversary.

However, today Rolex decided to put up an interesting flash ‘easter egg’ type notice on their main site,

Unfortunately, the collective mass of WIS ‘nerds’ together were able to decompile the SWF file to reveal this monstrosity lurking below,

A keen eye will notice a lume dot at 12 o’clock and a faint shadow of what appears to be a cyclops as well.

This was also uncovered by a fellow forum member:

Forum member ‘bond0007′ reports,

On a vintage Forum I frequent, a guy named Steve posted this up :

“I went into Rolex Bexley about 2 hours ago to get my 1665 waterproof tested, the guy on the quick-service desk told me that a new watch called a Deep-Sea was being launched with a deeper depth rating than the current sea-dweller.”

This is all starting to add up. It’s highly likely that this will be rated to 8,000 or 10,000 feet from the thickness of the case/crystal and size of the crown - possibly a ‘quadlock’ LOL!

Time will tell but this is proving to be rather exciting and we will soon know the fate of the venerable Sea-Dweller.

It should be noted that this is a purely speculative post, based on the general census of discussions at TZRF and should be taken extremely lightly, in fact - fat free mayo is recommended

This was taken on Easter Sunday: I’m pictured on the right, with one of my cousins on the left.

Her elder sister is camera shy…

…and I just took these earlier today…

It just occurred to me that I completely forgot to blog about this amazing event. This was my very FIRST GTG, and meeting not so strange strangers for the very first time was quite thrilling to say the least.

I have been, and still am, an active member of TimeZone’s Rolex forum - so as you can imagine we keep chatting and bumping into each other online. However, getting to meet these folks in real life was very cool.

~ Rolex Walkabout with MrRolex and more … (Modem Burner) ~

Here we are, meeting for the very first time in front of the Rolex boutique on Bond Street,

Yours truly has just gone shopping at the Mont Blanc boutique…lol! This is James Dowling, the author of “Best of Time: Rolex Wristwatches, an Unauthorized History”, autographing a copy…

Illuminatus (David) trying out the GMTIIC (SS),

The Vintage Watch Company and David Duggan on display at Burlington Arcade,

Milos inspecting a very special ‘SS’ Day Date on James’ wrist. Rolex have ‘never’ made, DDs in anything other than precious metals hehe…

We ended up chatting about more watches at Richoux, one of my usual haunts…

A GTG tradition, the ‘table shot’:

Definitely an unforgettable experience, and I sincerely look forward to the next GTG in London. A much more detailed writeup maybe found linked below.

~ Rolex Walkabout with MrRolex and more … (Modem Burner) ~