Evidence receipt / prediction
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: prediction
5 Mar 2026 Acquired Rolex
“I will say, very interestingly, in 1932, Omega released a waterproof watch, which is, I don’t know, half a decade after Rolex.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- prediction
- Recorded
- 5 Mar 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Rolex
Transcript context
…Exactly. I will say, very interestingly, in 1932, Omega released a waterproof watch, which is, I don’t know, half a decade after Rolex. This is considered to be the world’s first dive watch. No one talks about this today. You hear dive watch, you think Rolex, but Omega had the first dive watch. You think Submariner, yeah. Ooh, I’ve got some really, really, really fun World War II dive watch stuff in a sec, but before we get to World War II.…
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