u/thecosmojane

I’m just seeing this more and more, just noticing amongst my friends who are working professionals, that anyone that 1) has a professional job average society would consider “successful” and 2) is not really “into” watches (e.g., they likely would never have visited any watch community or forum in their life), usually wears a two tone Rolex datejust.

Anyone else notice this? I suppose it is like the BMW 5 series or Range Rover.

ETA:

As for the people who are commenting about how they are for duds... it's really moot, I am making a certain observation about a certain demographic... not saying I particularly prefer them... Just think it's a certain demographic watch! You can agree or disagree without your opinion on the watch itself... bc I'm commenting on the demographic.

Here is my personal take on this: in such position (where you are something like, a partner at a law firm, as one commenter noted is a frequent demographic of this phenomenon, or a bank executive, financial advisor, so on and so forth), and you don't really know about / care much about watches, but you feel like you need something that is:
- "Decently respectable", hence Rolex, a classic traditional brand
- Has a certain 'nicety' touch to it (i.e., the part-gold part comes in)
- Is fairly conservative, versatile and not too ostentatiously "bling" in their conservative opinion (i.e., the part-gold part comes in)

Seems like the "safe" choice. Or am I overthinking it?

Again, this is not about the watch, but about the demographic...

P.S. the preference for stainless, is, again, a watch person thing. We are not talking about watch people. That means none of you fall in this category, no matter your profession

I know that most of you won't care, but I'll post this anyway because I think it's still interesting information.

As many of you already know, the Royal Pop Swatch x AP is a $150 Swatch SISTEM 51 movement with factory 3D printed AP Royal Oak casing.

An AP on the outside, with the cheapest Swatch swiss mechanical movement on the inside (as advertised when they first introduced this movement in Baselworld). A hermetically sealed movement made mostly of plastic, designed never to be serviced, only replaced if it breaks.

Basically, a Swatch that looks like a Royal Oak.

Back in 2008 and again in 2011, AP made a watch with Chanel, the J12 Calibre 3125.
The AP 3120, their Royal Oak movement, put inside a ceramic Chanel aesthetic.

Literally, and ironically, the polar opposite of the Royal Pop - a watch that looked like Chanel, but behaved like a Royal Oak.

In fact, Chanel wanted so badly for this AP to look like a Chanel, that for the exhibition display on the back, they took AP's classic 3120 22k yellow gold rotor and actually covered up the gold with black rhodium (and then chiseled it a bit) - to fit the Chanel aesthetic.

They almost wanted the AP to look Chanel more badly than the Swatch wanted the Swatch to look like an AP! After all, the limited edition AP collab watch is virtually indistinguishable with the Chanel 12 Caliber 12.1 available today.