Month: April 2022

Every year on March 17, countless people around the world choke each other for not wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day. According to folklore, if you don’t wear green, you will have a choking incident on St. Patrick’s Day because the green color will make you invisible to the leprechauns, who love to choke people or something like that.
While this seems to be the best Internet explanation for this tradition, there are no Irish primary sources to confirm it. While the origin of this is rather obscure, one thing is certain: if you don’t wear green on St. Patrick’s Day, some amiable person will pinch you at some point. With that in mind, here are a few green fake Rolex watches that you can wear this St. Patrick’s Day so you don’t get pinched.
Generally speaking, replica Rolex watches are relatively conservative in design and usually do not come in bright shades. However, green is Rolex’s company color and the brand likes to use this color on their anniversary watches. To celebrate the collection’s 50th anniversary in 2003, the brand released a special version of the stainless steel Rolex Submariner showing the date, which featured a black “Maxi” dial and a bright green aluminum bezel.
Nicknamed the “Kermit” because of its slight resemblance to the beloved frog puppet, the 16610LV Submariner is one of the first Rolex Anniversary Edition replica watches to feature the company’s colors entirely. While the bright green bezel is easily the most prominent feature of the Ref. 16610LV Submariner, the use of a black dial helps to maintain a good balance, allowing the watch to be recognizably green while retaining a degree of diversity.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Milgauss, a replica Rolex released the ref. 116400GV. While the watch’s dial is black, its sapphire crystal has been tinted green, creating a subtle, but certainly noticeable, green style. The “GV” in the reference number stands for Glace Verte (French for “green glass”), as we recently outlined in our alphabetical guide in the Rolex reference number. Most interestingly, despite Rolex’s usual urge to flaunt patents, they do not hold a patent for the green crystal used in Milgauss because they claim it is too difficult to make.
Admittedly, the green sapphire crystal is not the most blatant use of color, so the Ref. 116400GV Milgauss is not an all-green, Boston Celtics-themed timepiece that will guarantee you won’t be strangled on St. Patrick’s Day. However, for those who don’t want a “green watch” but don’t want to endure a day of well-intentioned pinching on the next St. Patrick’s Day, the Milgauss ref. 116400GV is a perfect choice.
Whereas the ref. 16610LV “Kermit” Submariner only has a green bezel, the ref. 116610LV “Hulk” has a bright green dial with sunburst accents. Although Rolex has produced many watches featuring the color green, on this St. Patrick’s Day, the Hulk Submariner is easily the greenest Rolex you can strap to your wrist.