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Originally Posted by No SUBctitute
Speaking of gilt vs. no gilt. More than 10 years ago I popped into a European AD to see what they had. I chatted with the Rolex manager who had been in his position for many years. I saw a watch poking out from under his suit coat and asked him what it was. He showed me a beautiful black dial 58, but something didn't look right. IT HAD NO GILT. I asked him about it and he told me that Rolex had been playing around with what to make and they had made this watch. (I didn't ask if it they made one or a dozen.) And Rolex gifted the watch to him based on whatever relationships he had.
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Wait what? The 58 did not come out until 2018. How could you have seen it over a decade ago let alone known it well enough to think it didn't look right?
Are you sure you didn't see the no-gilt Black Bay that came out in 2014, perhaps a bit before it came out publicly? That would have looked different from the gilt Black Bay that was already out at the time.