Rolex teased for its 1st of April "Watches & Wonders 2025" presentation -- "Building Tomorrow, Here and Now" -- and it seems like the news is not in the OysterQuartz-looking edgy case-shape but inside: quite sure it is related to quartz, yes. The pendulum / balance is a nice reminiscence but not really tomorrow.

Quartz controlled, yes but not with a battery and overall: Quartz2.0. Kybernetik, Plus Ultra.

Ad 2025-04-02: Well, the Rolex-presented LandDweller is indeed an innovative watch, and beautiful on top. Not as innovative as I assumed (and hoped) but it is said thats a important step -- I will have a look into it, when time allows. And the design: significantly thinner than the OysterQuartz but with a similar timeless edgy case; simply cubitussed. So, it will for sure become a success. But like the ref1530, which pre-dated the OysterQuartz in the mid-1970s and was a mechanical placeholder in the same innovative angular case, the LandDweller might be a mechanical placeholder for something more future-proof. Lets see.

Ad 2025-04-23: The new cal7135 with the DynaPulse escapement should be the movement of tomorrow ("Building Tomorrow, Here and Now") -- and I have some doubts. It is advertised with a 30% higher efficiency or "caliber 7135 could be seen as the most significant leap in watchmaking since quartz". Wow, are you serious, Hodinkee? As revolutionary as the Omega CoAxial-escapement. But I cannot see anything revolutionary: most of the improvements seem to come from the increased frequency of 5Hz -- with all its downsides -- and to the most part from the new used materials, which might eat some of the disadvantes of the frequency-increasing. And I assume that after 2y we will see it is just a further complication without any significant change or improvement vs the simply (and robust) Swiss Lever-escapement, when all details (ie. Service-efforts, reduced reliability, improvements by used materials) are stripped. And by not much surprise: in the end a pendulum is a pendulum is a pendulum.

Instead after more than 20y gone by since Seiko presented the Spring Drive there would have been the possibility for the Swiss watch-industry to come out with something as revolutionary; something Piaget presented almost 20y ago with their cal700P; something that would make time flow again, instead of tiktok; so, overall nothing revolutionary but a missed chance.