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Project X Designs Blacked Out Rolex Explorer II Orange
by Kyle Stults on June 09, 2010
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Blacked out, orange accented…

My one and only post about “blacked out” aftermarket Rolexes was this one about Bamford and Black-Out Concept, almost a year ago.  If anything you’ll want to read this prior post simply to see the “blacked-out” Ferrari that I included.  Was I remiss (ignorant, perhaps!) in not adding Projext X Designs to the comparison?  It seems so.  From what I hear lately, Project X Designs is “where it’s at” when it comes to blacked-out watches.  I suppose this is subject to fierce debate (depending on which one you own, hehehe). Also subject of fierce debate is the whole concept of “aftermarket” modding such as this.  As far as I am concerned I don’t know what all the fuss is about (many Rolex purists do not like these modified versions).

As for this particular blacked-out Rolex Explorer II with orange accents (bezel and seconds hand), 24 and only 24 will be made.

Each watch will feature a laser engraved caseback with individual issue number and include with the original manufacturers box and papers, a project x designs certificate of customization and guarantee card.     The orange colour used has been exclusively developed for this range of watches only, and will not be available via Project X’s “Bespoke” editions.     Price is at 7250.00GBP and orders are being taken now. Delivery is planned for Mid July 2010.

What else to say except that the black and orange work wonderfully together and I LIKE IT!

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  • http://www.discoverprohunter.com Pro Hunter

    I wish Project x would stop copying our designs…..its flattering but they really need to do their own thing. Thats the problem they cant, they can copy thats easy but they cant innovate.

    Best,
    K

  • Brian

    Looks like what Time and Gems did but orange instead of red. Check out the picture here: http://bit.ly/9nJuxi

  • Miguel Seabra

    Copying your designs, Pro Hunter?

    My take, and looking at the various ‘customizers’, is they have the best designs and quality — and I’ve been paying a lot of attention to your kind of company lately. It’s a matter of taste, and you can’t buy good taste. Black Out Concept even stole Project X Designs pictures of their products, photoshop’ed them and put them in their own site (preposterous)…

    • http://www.discoverprohunter.com Pro Hunter

      Your comments have been noted, but unfortunately what goes around comes around. Project X have been stealing scans and coping my designs from the day they started. There is no glory in this. Even worse is that the scans are then photoshopped. They are a company that is here today and gone 2moro. Its Danil Burns way of doing business. Beware.

  • Hugh Jorgen

    I have to laugh at you guys, especially you, Pro Hunter, you take a base Rolex, give it a nitrided or PVD finish, a lick of red paint on the dial, call it ‘exclusive’ and then charge an arm and a leg for it and you have the bold faced cheek to call it ‘your design’, get a real job actually designing watches and stop bitching about other people doing what you are doing, there’s no honoiur among thieves and that’s exactlky what you guys are, jeez, you’re worse than Invicta, unfortunately there are a lot of armchair ninjas and stealth warriors out there that are stupid enough to want to pay for what you do, hell mend the muppets.

    • http://www.discoverprohunter.com Pro Hunter

      Huge J, please try and do one, and then give us a report. I think its offensive to label people just because they dont toe your line. Remember they made their money by not being stupid. Its not the lick of paint but how you apply it. The muppet will be mended when you are mended.

  • Hugh Jorgen

    I don’t have to do one to know where you’re coming from, you have the effrontery to label yourself a ‘designer’, that’s the joke, it’s akin to you comparing yourself to Pinifarina designing the Enzo / George Daniels designing the co-axial movement or Marcel Breur designing the Wassily chair, it’s utter nonsense.

    You’re simply a refinisher, the diamond like coating is a simple enough process as is physical vaour deposition, the Chinese rattle out these finishes on fake watches all day long, the fact that you take a Rolex DESIGNED watch and re-finish it with some go-faster stripes on the dial and some engraving on the case-back allied to the nonsense of giving it a ‘limited edition’ number to give added market appeal doesn’t make you any more a designer than it would make me Jessica Alba’s paramour.

    The fact that there are mugs out out there ready to part with an additional 10,000 quid to have a black Daytona simply confirms that God made a lot of stupid people and don’t pretend you’re not offering thanks to some deity or other that they are beating a path to your door, however the obverse to that is that you get all full of piss and vinegar when someone else tries to steal your ‘designer’ title, as my old Dad used to say, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s a duck, thanks for the laugh!

    • http://www.discoverprohunter.com Pro Hunter

      Its a unfortunate truth that the Have Nots will always be jealous of the Haves. Oh well.
      Thanks for the banter, Over and Out.
      K

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    Rolex makes the some of the best watches out there. The Blacked Out Rolex Explorer is no different

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