Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
5 Mar 2026 Acquired Rolex
“I believe at some point, Rolex starts actually testing their watches to significantly greater depth than what is advertised for this reason.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 5 Mar 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Rolex
Transcript context
…Although I must say, I think this is an overlooked thing about this category. That’s 100 meters in depth if there were no pressure changes and you weren’t whipping your hand around. It’s nice to have 100 meters of depth so that if you’re going 20 meters in depth and things happen, you might at some given second while you’re whipping your arm around or something weird happens on your water, approach the limit even though you’re actually far from 100 meters below. I believe at some point, Rolex starts actually testing their watches to significantly greater depth than what is advertised for this reason. That’s correct. Most of them I think are at 10% extra margin of safety, but I think the dive watches are an extra 25%.…
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