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Rolex Basel 2015: A new movement, the Cal 3255.

 
 By: amanico : March 19th, 2015-09:31
An exciting news in the Rolex World. When the novelties are not breathtaking, at least from my point of view, this year, with an exception, the new Yacht Master Ref 116655 in rose gold and its black cerachrom bezel. A new movement is born, the Cal 3255. F...  

I noticed this...

 
 By: Mark in Paris : March 19th, 2015-09:34
and as I think Rolex makes great movements in terms of accuracy and reliability, I am very happy to welcome this novelty in my watch world. Cheers, Mark

and to be honest.....

 
 By: Baron - Mr Red : March 19th, 2015-09:39
....at least to my mind..... this is what Rolex is about

Nice to see this.....

 
 By: Andy : March 19th, 2015-10:07
But to improve on what they have already is impressive. I've been wearing my Sub for 2 weeks and it's not even a second different from the speaking clock, very impressive already :) I am however dissapointed not to see a new SS Daytona with cerachrome bez... 

On the other hand.....

 
 By: Andy : March 19th, 2015-10:12
They have saved me 7-8K as I would have to have it...ha ha :)

Cal. 3235 in the Pearlmaster as well

 
 By: Thevenin : March 19th, 2015-10:35
is the updated 3135. Will probably propagate down to the other date models and calibers. Hard to notice through all the bling :) Cheers, Dogu ...  

3235 [nt]

 
 By: Thevenin : March 19th, 2015-10:36
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Hey Nico....

 
 By: Andy : March 19th, 2015-12:51
Would they use this as a module in a chronograph (aka Daytona) or just use the patented new sexy parts in a possible new Daytona movement in the future, if at all..? Just trying to gauge where this would get used in the future. My Sub already has some ben... 

My logical guess would lead me to answer you that most probably...

 
 By: amanico : March 19th, 2015-12:59
Rolex will use all these improvements in most of their movements, yes. But only Rolex has a definitive answer on that. Best, Nicolas

more accuracy...

 
 By: GhostInTheMachine : March 19th, 2015-13:23
Nice to see the results of R&D at work! How long until the new features are in all the watches?

One per year....

 
 By: ciaca : March 19th, 2015-14:18
So every Basel for the next N years will have their novelty Regards

Repost

 
 By: ciaca : March 23rd, 2015-04:53
I write here something i already wrote elsewhere The new family of calibers Is in my opinion the unique interesting new thing came out from Rolex this year in Basel, the others are merely annoying. It is a very interesting machine from different points of...  

Thanks for this very interesting feedback, Ciaca.

 
 By: amanico : March 23rd, 2015-05:00
I agree with you. This new movement is the most important thing / novelty this year, for Rolex, with the new Tudor movement, as well... For the rest, m y wallet is far away from temptations, which is excellent news. Same question in my mind: How long will... 

as i wrote...

 
 By: ciaca : March 23rd, 2015-06:03
in the last period of previous post, I guess decades ;-) I doubt this new movement will appear soon on the best seller like gmt and submariner. They will shift slowly starting from the less selled models waiting to empty the warehouses fulfilled by tons o...