All New Rolex Releases At Watches & Wonders 2025
If you cast your mind back to the start of January, you’ll remember we published an (admittedly premature) ‘predictions’ article for this year’s Rolex releases at Watches & Wonders. Now, not only was our list one of the earliest posts on the subject to go live it was also, as always, one of the wrongest. […]
Rolex of the 1920s versus the Rolex of the 1930s
From its inception in 1905, Rolex spent the first decade of its life scoring a series of modest yet noteworthy victories. They were the first brand, for instance, to make a wristwatch accurate enough to be awarded a Class A Chronometer Certificate from the Kew Observatory in London, a distinction only bestowed on marine chronometers […]
The BeckerTime ‘Firsts’ Series: The Rolex Caliber 3135
There have been a number of movements created by Rolex over the years which have become almost as legendary as the watches they drive. In previous articles we have looked at the likes of the Cal. 4130, the brand’s first ever in-house chronograph caliber which elevated the Daytona to never before dreamt of heights, as […]
The BeckerTime Guide to the Rolex Explorer
Is it fair to point at Rolex’s humble, visually-efficient Explorer as the place where it really all started? Although the brand had been in business for nearly half a century before it arrived, it could be argued that it was the Explorer which marked the first truly major turning point in Rolex’s long and winding […]