D-Blue DEEPSEA Dial and the Meaning Behind the Colours
The blue at the top of the new D-Blue dial is the sea we see from the surface. The gradient into black signifies the darkness at great depths (great depths is an understatement considering this watch can go 0.7 leagues under the sea – that converts to about 3,900m for the non-Jules Verne readers), the bright green DEEPSEA represents James Cameron’s submersible expedition vehicle during the Rolex Deepsea Challenge.
A quote from the official Rolex website:
James Cameron’s submersible was carrying a specially made experimental Rolex Deepsea Challenge watch on its hydraulic manipulator arm and two others attached to its hull. By scaling up the technology developed for the Rolex Deepsea divers’ watch, waterproof to 3,900 metres (12,800 feet), Rolex engineers created an experimental model capable of withstanding the crushing pressure of about 12 tonnes on the crystal. The Rolex Deepsea Challenge watches emerged unharmed from this cold, dark and barren world some 11 kilometres (7 miles) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. They kept time perfectly throughout nearly seven hours beneath the water, as Cameron demonstrated by looking at the watch on the manipulator arm at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk