Rolex of the 1900s versus the Rolex of the 1910s
For the final round of articles in our ‘Decades’ series, we’re going to take a bigger picture view. Instead of concentrating on how a single watch model was transformed between one era to the next, we’re instead going to focus on the brand as a whole. Rolex has been around, in one form or another, […]
All New Rolex Releases At Watches & Wonders 2025: The Rolex Daytona
If there’s one thing you can be relatively assured of during the great Rolex unveiling every April it’s that the brand’s two most stalwart offerings, the Day-Date and Datejust, will turn up with a host of new dial options. In previous years, Rolex has come to market with a variety of fresh faces for their […]
All New Rolex Releases at Watches & Wonders 2025: The GMT-Master II
In 2022, Rolex pulled off their usual trick of throwing in a surprise to their annual reveal when they unveiled the GMT-Master II ref. 126720VTNR. That year, as every year, cognoscenti had pinned their aspirations on the return of an old favorite or two. The main hope-rather-than-expectation gossip centered, as always, on the famous black and […]
Rolex’s Rarest Bezels
If you take a look at the contemporary Rolex collection, you will see a finely honed but relatively uniform set of elements used across the portfolio. There are, for instance, only four styles of bracelet on offer. There are seven metal types (three of which are 18k gold, just different colors). There are, obviously, a […]