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Fight it as I may, the masculine cool I associate with a good watch continually draws me in. It has for years. Decades, even. I knew when Biggie instructed link all the true playas to wave their Rolexes in the sky on "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems" that watches set you apart – that just having one marked you as distinctive, and having an expensive, link highly coveted one made link you enviable.

Let's start off with the fact that the bezel is not ceramic, as many observers thought it link would be. No, it remains the same brushed steel that it's always been, which – let's be honest – is a good thing. The steel link bezel is a hallmark of the Explorer II, so as much as people would have loved to see a ceramic bezel, it just wouldn't have felt right (and link might've been potentially problematic from a spelunking perspective).

Meanwhile sales in the middle and low range of the U.S. watch market are even tougher. Watch sales below link 1000 were down 15 in H1 2019 compared link to the same period a year ago according to NPD. Sales below 500 link were down 16.