Review the Rolex Deepsea Sea-Dweller D-Blue 44mm Watch Replica

Review the Rolex Deepsea Sea-Dweller D-Blue Watch Replica

The replica Rolex Deepsea Sea-Dweller D-Blue 116660 watch is really cool. Rolex says it's the first of its kind, and possibly the last - dedicated to James Cameron and his aptly named "Deepsea Challenger"! "A journey to dive into the deepest depths of the ocean and release a version of the existing watch. On the dial of the watch the green color of the “DEEPSEA” label represents the decent of Cameron’s submersible as it is the same color.

DEEPSEA Challenge 3D Movie By James Cameron

42 years later in 2012, James Cameron and his Deepsea Challenger submersible (and watch) made it to the deepest spot of the Mariana Trench as a revival of the 1960s mission. Once again, there was a Rolex watch on-board. It was the massive Rolex Deepsea Challenge, a 51.4 millimeter wide and 12,000 meter water resistant watch, strapped to the robotic arm of the Deepsea Challenger withstanding the crushing pressure of 1,100 atmospheres. This new Rolex Deepsea D-Blue dial watch replica for 2014 is a tribute to the 2012 mission.

The original Deepsea Challenge was a never-commercially-produced watch that was a super-sized version of the current generation Rolex Deepsea with its 3,900 meter water resistance rating. This was the watch James Cameron wore on his own wrist inside of the Deepsea Challenge submersible during his almost 7 hour long dive. As you can see on the chart above, the already substantially sized Deepsea with its 44 millimeter diameter and 17.7 mm thickness looks extremely small when compared to the monstrous Deepsea Challenge and its 51.4 millimeter wide and 28.5 thick case, designed to withstand a crippling 13.6 tons per square inch of pressure.

Thanks to these unheard-of specs, the Deepsea Challenge successfully accompanied Cameron on his adventure, which was recorded by several cameras for a new film that would reveal previously unknown and invaluable information about the magnificently diverse forms of life present at such immense depths, as well as the painstaking process of crafting the submersible used on the mission. 

Rolex Deepsea D-Blue Watch

Rolex offered a teaser before the watch release showing the profile of a Deepsea case, bathed in blue lighting and hinted with two small drops of water. That was everything we had and nothing more. However, we felt that there had to be a reason for the blue lighting as we would not expect Rolex to use it merely for the purpose of distraction: and we were right, as the new watch is indeed the Rolex Deepsea Sea-Dweller watch replica with a deep blue dial that gradually transforms into deep black, imitating one man’s journey to the deepest place on Earth.

The blue and black theme is mixed up with the text “DEEPSEA” printed in vibrant green – added as a tribute to the color of James Cameron’s submersible, the Deepsea Challenger. This color effect is probably rather straight forward and not a color-changing effect like the 2014 Rolex Milgauss Z-Blue dial watch replica. Of course Rolex is really into blue and black right now. The 2013 Rolex GMT-Master II day/night watch with a half blue and half black ceramic bezel might be a nice complimentary piece to the Deepsea D-Blue dial timepiece.

Otherwise, the Rolex Deepsea Sea-Dweller D-Blue replica is the same 44mm wide steel-cased super dive watch that Rolex has been producing, but with a distinct dial color. It is water resistant to 3,900 meters (12,800 feet), has the Cerachrom black ceramic bezel insert and the “Monobloc” middle case with Helium Escape Valve. More tech specs are below.

Inside the Rolex Deepsea replica is the in-house made Rolex caliber 3135 automatic movement with the time and date, and it is of course given a COSC Chronometer certification. Don’t forget that as a Sea-Dweller model, the Rolex Deepsea replica also has an automatic helium release valve on the left side of the case. Overall, the Rolex Deepsea replica is a killer tool-watch if you love dive watches and is one of the biggest “statement” Rolex timepieces around. It lacks some of the more graceful proportions and elegance of the Submariner, but I see the Rolex Deepsea as the version of the Submariner with huge off-road tires and lifted 4 more feet off the ground… if the Submariner were an SUV automobile.

Informantion

REFERENCE: 116660

CASE: Oyster (monobloc middle case, screw-down

case back and winding crown). Ringlock System case architecture with nitrogen-alloyed steel ring Helium escape valve

DIAMETER: 44mm

MATERIALS: 904L steel, case back in grade 5 titanium

WINDING CROWN: Screw-down, Triplock triple water-proofness system

CROWN GUARD: Integral part of the middle case

CRYSTAL: Domed, 5.5 mm-thick, scratch-resistant, synthetic sapphire.

BEZEL: Unidirectional rotatable 60-minute graduated; Cerachrom insert made of ceramic, numerals and graduations coated in platinum via PVD

WATERPROOFNESS: 3,900 m (12,800 ft)

MOVEMENT: Calibre 3135, Manufacture Rolex Mechanical movement, bidirectional self-winding via Perpetual rotor

PRECISION: Officially certified Swiss chronometer (COSC)

FUNCTIONS: Centre hour, minute and seconds hands Instantaneous date with rapid setting, Stop-seconds for precise time setting

OSCILLATOR: Frequency: 28,800 beats / hour (4 Hz)

Paramagnetic blue Parachrom hairspring with Breguet overcoil

Large balance wheel with variable inertia, high-precision regulating via gold Microstella nuts

POWER RESERVE: Approximately 48 hours

BRACELET: Oyster; folding Oysterlock safety clasp with Rolex Glidelock system for fine adjustment of bracelet length, and Fliplock extension link

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