Rolex revised its Submariner collection in 2020 and unleashed an
extraordinary demand for its Oyster model with a green bezel.
Our test looks at this newest edition, with its modified case and new
movement, to see if it lives up to the hype.

Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner Date LV (Ref. 126610LV)

Spend any time at all at a Rolex dealer and someone will come in and ask for the new Submariner with a green bezel ? to no avail. Demand exceeds the supply many times over, intensifying the hype around this model. And this in turn is reflected in the prices set by traders. The green Submariner has overtaken the Daytona and the GMT-Master II ?Pepsi? as the most sought-after Rolex model. This is no artificial shortage. Rolex simply cannot build enough watches to satisfy all the potential customers ? true not only for steel versions but also for the steel-and-gold and all-gold variants as well.
But why is the hype around the green version by far the greatest, even though every Submariner model has been updated" For one, it is the only steel version that is visibly different from its predecessors. The ?Hulk,? which it replaces, has a green sunburst dial in addition to the green bezel. The dial of the new model is black. Rolex has revived a color combination that preceded the Hulk, which existed from 2003 to 2010 and was known by the nickname ?Kermit,? which had a black dial and green aluminum bezel inlay. A second reason is that these two green models were already much ...