While opinions about the Rolex Submariner vary in regard to its street-cred as a sign that the wearer is a watch lover (given that the overwhelming majority of Rolex wearers are luxury seekers versus watch collectors), everyone agrees that the Rolex Submariner is (no pun intended) a superlative timepiece in almost all respects. It has been close to a decade since Rolex released the previous generation Submariner 116610 watch collection (aBlgotoWatch review here). Now for 2020, the highly popular Rolex Submariner gets a new movement and some slight design tweaks. Below I will discuss what it is like to wear the new Submariner Date 126610LN, and how the collector community should respond to it.
David Bredan from the website team told me, after seeing the 126610LV (black dial with green ceramic bezel), that the new and old generation Submariner replica luxury watches were very similar. I didn’t entirely appreciate what he meant until I put the watch on. While there are some differences, it is almost uncanny how similar the outgoing 116610 Submariner and the new generation 126610 Submariner are. Many, many people would simply not know the difference if they saw them in the real world.
The biggest design difference is the lugs, which are slimmer on the new generation of Rolex Submariners. This gives the watch a slightly more proportional look, but given that Rolex increased the diameter of the case by around 1mm, the new Submariner with the narrower lugs actually wears almost identically to the older Submariner with the wider lugs. Rolex says that the old Submariner is rated to be 40mm-wide, while the new 2020 Submariner models are 41mm-wide. This is mostly true, but the actual wearing-size difference between the new and old Submariners is under one millimeter, from our understanding.
For watch enthusiasts, the most compelling reason to get a new 126610 generation Submariner best swiss watches replica is the updated movement. For 2022, the Submariner models receive either the in-house-made Rolex caliber 3230 (no date) or, as seen here, the caliber 3235 (with the date). The movements are a bit more accurate and stable as compared to the 3135 movements of the old-generation watches, but notably offer an additional day of power reserve bringing up total movement running time to about 70 hours. The implication is that the automatic movement can be put on a table over the weekend and will be perfectly ready for your day on Monday.
To remind you that the new movements are in-house “Rolex Superlative Chronometer-certified,” the dials now have a small Rolex crown logo between “Swiss Made” under 6 o’clock on the dial. Otherwise, the dials more or less look the same even though they are technically new dials.
