Fresh from the showcase here at SwissWatchExpo.
And if you can tell by how we're dressed, we are celebrating St Patrick's Day today.
Of course, St Patrick's Day celebrating, the Catholic Saints bringing Christianity to the
Island of Ireland in the fifth century.
It's been celebrated in some form ever since.
And so for that, we are going to showcase a collection of watches we have with different
shades of green for this holiday.
I won't be pinching you.
There are no leprechauns here yet.
The reason that we choose green is because for St. Patrick's Day, I think the old adage
goes is that leprechauns would find or hunt you down ; if you weren't wearing green, they'd
pinch you.
So this is kind of what led to everybody pinching each other for St Patrick's Day, in case you
didn't know.
Obviously St Patrick's Day is huge in the United States.
It's not necessarily as big around the rest of the world as here.
We do a lot of stuff for st Patrick's day.
It's also March madness for all of you basketball lovers, which I happen to be Tar Heels aren't
quite doing as well this year.
They may not be making it, but we'll get there.
Probably cause they're not wearing green.
Actually they do have.
They do.
Yeah.
That's one of the things with the Tar Heels, they actually have a whole green outfit for
the March Madness and St Patrick's Day Event.
That's a whole other discussion, but we have a lot of green watches now.
Rolex is an interesting product in green because they sort of led the market with the green
ideology.
Now personally, I'm wearing the 50th Anniversary (Submariner).
I owned one of these watches.
I worked for a long time and having it back on brings back a lot of fond memories.
The purpose of me buying the Rolex, the 50th Anniversary, I really didn't care at the time
that it was a 50th anniversary.
It was just different than everybody else's and I happen to be a big fan of green.
Now green is a controversial color.
A lot of people really don't like green.
I had a Latin teacher in high school that really despised green, so it can bring out
the worst in people at times, but it can bring out the best in people.
It's a, it's a symbol of luck and a symbol of the future and moving forward actually.
So Rolex is really specializing in green because they use it for a lot of anniversary colors.
The 50th anniversary being one for the Submariner.
Also we have a solid gold GMT, a green dial.
It happens to be my favorite.
I love the gold and the green and it definitely brings back the idea of what the Irish st
Patrick's day leprechaun getting pinched.
Why?
Because leprechauns are guardians of the crock of gold right at the end of the rainbow.
That's the whole idea, right?
So when you have this watching green on the dial with the gold, uh, the full solid gold
case and bracelet, it's extraordinarily heavy.
It feels significant and the price of it is amazing.
I actually want this watch desperately, but I do get a lot of reaction out of it too.
It's the 50th Anniversary, the GMT (Master).
So we also have the Hulk, which people went absolutely bananas over after the 50th Anniversary
was discontinued and the green bezel, they went to a green dial and a green ceramic bezel.
So it is still popular.
It's still hard to get, and well you know you're lucky if you happen to find like we
have a few here at SwissWatchExpo, so you always want to contact us when you want that
green bezel, that green dial.
And now there's a lot of other manufacturers that make green now because they're following
that Rolex lead.
They realized how popular specifically the Hulk was.
So now you have companies like Oris, and Oris is one.
I mentioned them specifically because the green is fantastic on there.
They do it really great color.
We also have the Wimbledon, which is famous for being green because of the courts, the
grass courts, the clay courts, the things that they, you know, when you see the clay
courts, it's kinda got that green gypsum color, which is why, and it's, and then the slate
color kind of mixes in.
That's why they have those colors in there to throw back to the Wimbledon.
Now, one of the other colors that they use is on this model, it's called the Wimbledon
as well.
It's got a sundial Sunray effect where when you turn that dial, you see shimmers of the
gold throughout.
But the green depth really shines through.
And it's, it's bright, really bright, intense.
It's not a flat green like some of the other models are.
And that differs actually from the Hulk because the Hulk has, when you look at it, if you
look at it from certain angles, it can look black.
So it sort of blends the old 50th Anniversary dial with the green.
And this one just flat out brilliant blends the gold accents with the green.
And I do see we have it available in the ladies midsize here as well.
So this would make a great, isn't her combination, but this is a beautiful and iconic looking
color and whatever size it comes in.
Absolutely.
And then you brought out one of the other models that Milgauss.
Oh yes.
So we've actually got two here.
Uh, this is sort of, doesn't really look like a St. Patrick's Day color green, sort of like,
getting yourself pinched loophole.
But with the green dial crystal, it's definitely one of the most unique things I think Rolex
has ever done.
It's pretty kind of stands alone in the luxury watch world as far as this specifically this
color green and the crystal.
And so it's, it comes in the black dial with the green sapphire and then also in the turquoise
dial, or they call it the Z Blue.
Oh wow.
Okay.
Yes, that's right.
Yeah, the Z Blue.
So it has because of that green crystal, it gives it more of a turquoise feel.
And so we have the final one, which is a Piaget, and this almost looks Emerald in tone.
It is a, it is an actual stone.
It's a sliver of a stone that they've used on that dial.
And for the life of me, I'm not remembering what it's, it's not lapis.
I believe it's lapis, but it's a green color, right?
I believe it is.
And I'm not sure if the, that particular stone ingrain has a different name.
Uh, if it is, uh, you know, go ahead and let us know, right?
Because I've always referred to the lapis blue, not the lapis green, but what do I know?
I'm not a gemologist or any of the sorts.
So this is a, as you say, get out of jail free card.
So if you need a watch for St Patrick's Day in green or if you like green, you happen
a big fan of green like I am, we have the 50th Anniversary, we have several of those
models.
You can really step up your game if you get the 50th Anniversary GMT.
I highly recommend that, please get it out of my face before I buy it.
And uh, the, the Milgauss of course is always a favorite.
And with that Sapphire green crystal, it's just enough of the hint to look cool.
It also, by the way, the crystal is made to be a little bit anti-reflective for the engineering
side of things because obviously these, these watches are anti magnetic and all those other
wonderful things.
So it's very, very durable on top of it all.
So Rolex green models, the Hulk, the 50th, another 50th, the Wimbledon's and the Milgauss.
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