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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 view, first of all because denotes a great research in optimizing the straight lever escapement with completely renewed geometry of the pallets, fork and dents of the escapement wheel.
The form of the escapement wheel itself is interesting too, a miracle of the new technologies (electro erosion) which shows us something barely impossibile till some years ago.
The declared improvement rate in energetic efficiency, power reserve and chronometry for a pretty traditional escapement and without using new spring or other parts in silicon (maybe the siloxi spring will do its debut in the future) is absolutely remarkable from a company which is not used to do it often and still uses movement conceived more than an half century ago.
Another really "exciting" (it could appears humorous but it isn't because a lot of people were waiting it since a long time) detail is the decision to mount the winding rotor, at last, with ball bearings abandoning the traditional (and pretty faulty) pivoted architecture used until now in the most part of their movements (excepted the new ones like the 4130). This should solve once forever the problem of the "sliding" rotor crawling against the bridges of the movement when the pivot consumes itself.
On the finishing side these first examples of the new generation don't appear of the same quality level (already pretty low but well made enough considering the volume produced) as the old ones, something not less important given the price they already reached.
The matter, at this point, is "how much"; how much time will Rolex use to shift all the models to the new generation of movements?
I guess decades 
Regards
Rolex Basel 2015: A new movement, the Cal 3255.
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...
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
Nice to see this.....
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...
Cal. 3235 in the Pearlmaster as well
is the updated 3135. Will probably propagate down to the other date models and calibers. Hard to notice through all the bling :) Cheers, Dogu ...
It is exciting to witness the birth of a movement which will be used in many Rolex
Probably. Best, Nicolas
Hey Nico....
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...
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...
Nice to see the results of R&D at work! How long until the new features are in all the watches?
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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.
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...
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...
