Rolex sub crown change?

[marcl]

I was at my local AD on Saturday picking up a replacement rubber strap for my seamaster. But before i went in, there is a Rolex AD next door, and in the window he had a new display of subs. Anyway, i noticed the crowns where huge! I had my Noobmariner on my wrist and held it up to the window there was not 6 inches between the gens and mine. I could not tell the difference! they where very big, bigger than the pics behind the watches on the displays.

Needless to say i was very surprised.

[marcl]

Nobody? wow i thought this would have drawn some replies.

[alligoat]

Rolex has a new crown assembly out- the 24-704-0 and tube, 24-7040-0. Seen it listed for the SD and late model Daytonas. Can't tell you anything more about it. It's not on the sub which is still a 16610 model w/ the 24-703-0 asssembly AFAIK. Some day Rolex will update the sub to a 116610, I would think, but don't even know about that at this point.

Also, with the noob being over two years old, I don't know if the crown has been improved on the later models. BKLM went to the Noob factory and they devised a more correct crown and new tube which he has been putting on his BK mariners for a while- don't know if the factory ever made that improvement themselves.

[marcl]

Hold up! does this mean that the Noobmariner IS THE BEST SUB? Haha.

Actually you could have it spot on! i have always been told the crown on the noob was too big, So when i saw it on the gen i thought, eh up it must have been changed. But like you said maybe my crown is the now the right size.

kind regards. marc.

[alligoat]

It would make sense for the noob to go to the better crown assembly, but I don't know, since all of my noobs are two years old- and two of them heve gen crowns and tubes.

The new crown and tube on the SD, WM9 and Euromariner are copies of the gen. You can swap out a gen crown and it will fit the rep tube on those three models. But this is the 24-703 assembly- which is a 25+ year old assembly- c. 1980.