ckay I’ve gone through a few different watches and never thought my lifer would be a Submariner Date but it is literally a do-it-all for me. Suit, jeans and white tee, bathing suit, it just works.
This reminds of a piece written several years ago in the NYT about the life cycle of the watch collector, I have to dig that article up, but the premise is after getting into horology, there is a fork in the road.
You either go off the deep end and search for exotic, (Lange AP PP VC etc), or pivot and come to realize that a Rolex tool watch can do a little bit of everything famously.
I'm still stuck at the fork because the collection is still deep, but I just wear my steel Rolexes the most with reckless abandon, and aside from the pieces that I've had to "apply" to get, nothing is striking my fancy either.
And another thing Foreleft to consider is the MP on Rolexes was absurd pre-covid, I would wait to watch the market come back down to earth before buying a Rolex.
