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Someone "fixed" the new Air-King dial
IMHO this photoshop change makes the Air-King dial design 100% better and more coherent. Maybe in 4 years Rolex will "fix" the Air-King dial in this way, just like they took a few years to fix the hands on the 39 mm Explorer.
Photo from a commenter on Hodinkee.
And someone pointed out that a similar dial design was used by Rolex in the Bloodhound SSC project.
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Someone "fixed" the new Air-King dial
IMHO this photoshop change makes the Air-King dial design 100% better and more coherent. Maybe in 4 years Rolex will "fix" the Air-King dial in this way, just like they took a few years to fix the hands on the 39 mm Explorer. Photo from a commenter on Hod...
This is PRECISELY what I thought...
When I first saw it. "Copy the Bloodhound SSC instruments and stop confusing us with these daft hour numerals!" I like it - finally, it's coherent. Best E.
If they copied the Bloodhound dial exactly with the 3-6-9 subdial
it would have been an awesome new watch!
You can see from the Bloodhound instrument panel where they got the idea to use the 3-6-9
but IMHO it should have stayed in a subdial.
I don't know... I quite like it as it is, a bit crazy, out of the beaten paths. But this is only my feeling.
I can easily understand that it " disturbs ". Best, my friend. Nicolas
Like a disturbance in the Force :-))
Good night my friend. 12:40 am here. Time for me to go to bed. I hope you and our other fellow Purists have a great day.
Petrovich
Sorry, with respect, I am not surprised to see a ransom paid for this King in its future (as it is).