Rolex Submariner, every mention
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Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:57:53 Ben Gilbert The three 55, I would put it in the category of like a Rolex Submariner, of this thing that is a signature of the brand, is perfect product market fit, is priced perfectly, and just deeply understands why the customer is buying it.
- ▶ 2:56:14 Ben Gilbert When we did our Rolex episode, you, you heard us talk about the Submariner from, I don't know, 1965, and the Submariner from today.
Rolex (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 9:23 David Rosenthal When you buy a Submariner or a Daytona or even a Datejust, you are not buying Swiss history here.
- ▶ 1:38:46 David Rosenthal You think Submariner, yeah.
- ▶ 1:40:51 Ben Gilbert Which is funny because this is like a decade and a half before the Submariner.
- ▶ 1:46:44 Ben Gilbert He's wearing, I think it's a Rolex GMT and a Submariner on the same wrist.
- ▶ 1:47:59 Ben Gilbert For a lot of people, if they don't picture a Submariner, when you hear Rolex, they picture a Datejust.
- ▶ 1:54:51 Ben Gilbert And, you know, women wear Submariners and stuff, too, but, like, come on.
- ▶ 1:56:27 David Rosenthal It's the Submariner, it's the Explorer, it's the GMT Master, it's the Daytona, the modern sport watches.
- ▶ 1:59:36 David Rosenthal This is the Explorer, the Turnagraph, the Submariner, the Milgauss, and the GMT Master.
- ▶ 2:06:32 David Rosenthal Then there's the Submariner.
- ▶ 2:06:38 Ben Gilbert If you separated Submariner from Rolex, Submariner may actually be a bigger deal.
- ▶ 2:06:45 Ben Gilbert Submariner is its own whole franchise.
- ▶ 2:06:53 Ben Gilbert Who's the more important, like, the sub is, if you're gonna get a Rolex,
- ▶ 2:06:59 Ben Gilbert And you're intending to have multiple, you kind of should start with the sub, because it's just so iconic.
- ▶ 2:07:15 David Rosenthal So the Submariner is the Rolex dive watch, the professional diving watch.
- ▶ 2:07:25 Ben Gilbert What you know is the Sub is a great dive watch that Rolex makes and defines the category.
- ▶ 2:10:36 David Rosenthal A Submariner, a dive watch if you're diving.
- ▶ 2:11:22 David Rosenthal So Sean Connery wears a Sub-Mariner in Dr.
- ▶ 2:13:57 David Rosenthal The point is, from 1962 until 1995, if you liked James Bond, and you wanted to have a little bit of James Bond in your life, too, then you wanted to wear a Submariner on your wrist.
- ▶ 2:14:25 David Rosenthal Uh, super fun little coda on the Submariner.
- ▶ 2:14:39 Ben Gilbert That's like a Submariner, but you can go real deep?
- ▶ 2:14:51 David Rosenthal And there's this issue where helium would get trapped in the watch in the Submariner.
- ▶ 2:15:22 Ben Gilbert Okay, if you're already taking us from Submariner to Sea-Dweller, you gotta take us to Deep Sea Challenge.
- ▶ 2:15:40 Ben Gilbert But they design a watch and they said, well, what if we take this idea of originally the Submariner and then the Sea-Dweller, and we make this thing called the Deep Sea.
- ▶ 2:18:54 Ben Gilbert Bi-directional rotating bezel, importantly, because the Submariner is just one.
- ▶ 2:44:21 David Rosenthal Goodbye a Submariner, you could buy an Explorer, you could buy a GMT Master, you could buy a Datejust.
- ▶ 3:13:38 Ben Gilbert This is the first company to ever launch a dive watch before the Submariner, and they rushed into, here's how we fight the quartz crisis head on, when they were just not built to be a part of that at all.
- ▶ 3:31:46 David Rosenthal Every Submariner that comes in a Rolex box is of uniform quality.
- ▶ 3:33:32 David Rosenthal Submariner or Daytona.
- ▶ 3:52:45 Ben Gilbert I should just be able to walk in and buy a sub, you know?
- ▶ 3:58:48 Ben Gilbert Those can maintain rare, but like, Submariners should be on shelves, or at least two weeks later you should get a call about it.
- ▶ 4:00:42 Ben Gilbert You'd look at it, and it would look like a Submariner.
- ▶ 4:00:46 David Rosenthal You walk into a Tudor authorized dealer, you go on the website, and you're like, wow, that sure looks like a GMT master, and that looks like an Explorer, and that looks like a Submariner.
- ▶ 4:13:12 Ben Gilbert The Submariner's the nine-eleven.
- ▶ 4:35:51 Ben Gilbert It used to basically be a Submariner, and when they relaunched it, it was basically an Explorer.
- ▶ 4:45:38 Ben Gilbert Doing the, you know, final finishing of their 10,000th Submariner they've done final finishing on.