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All right, everybody, we are here at Watches and Wonders Day 1, 2025.

In a secret corner of the Pal Expo, we're never going to reveal where we are because then all the fans will come up and ask broadographs from Rich and Tanty.

Naturally.

So obviously the big news is land dweller, the Rolex land dweller.

We have our man Rich Forden over here who wrote,

I think, the seminal piece on it, I think top of the news charts these days with the land dweller.

So tell us about it Rich. Yeah, so it's a Rolex's brand new model. I called it the most important

model in decades. It was leaked. We saw it on Roger Federer's wrist. It features their first ever in-house developed escapement, which is an indirect impulse escapement.

The details are deep and you can go to the story for those, but the bare bones of it is that the movement features two silicone balance wheels, etc, etc.

It features an integrated bracelet which causes a bit of a stir in the honeycomb dial.

I love the thing.

I'm so excited to see it, but what do you guys think?

So it's really like a little bit of like reference 1530,

Oyster quartz, beta 21 vibes are almost to Algenta in some ways.

It's that type of 70s vibe. And really

Royal Oak ish in some ways. Not ask, but ish. That's right. Never ask. Always is.

That's an inside joke. Don't worry about it. What do you think, Lange? I don't. I mean,

okay, to be clear, I like the case. I like the bracelet. I like the vibe. I like Rolex being

innovative. Not sure about the dial. I like the vibe. I like Rolex being innovative. Not sure about the dial.

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