Blog posts from Andy Callan

Solid gold has been a symbol of wealth, power and success since the dawn of civilization. Seen as the very height of luxury and attainment, it has featured in jewelry making, along with timekeeping devices, from as long ago as the ancient civilizations of China and Babylonia. However, there is another element even more revered. […]

If you could sum up Rolex’s mission, from the very beginning, it has been to manufacture watches which are simultaneously highly luxurious and extremely robust. The perfect visual representation they found to encapsulate both of those qualities is in their bimetal combination known as Rolesor—partnering the opulence of gold with the toughest stainless steel. It […]

It’s strange to think that the Rolex Datejust was once a genuine revelation in the world of watchmaking. The first model to house an automatically winding movement inside a waterproof housing AND display a date function, it took the world by storm in the 1940s and cemented Rolex’s position at horology’s very top table. Since […]

There is a case for calling Rolex’s Explorer the first ever tool watch. While it may not have been the first model designed to aid its wearer in some way while going about their occupation (take your pick from any number of forerunners for that distinction; Panerai’s Radiomir, Omega’s Marine or even Cartier’s Santos-Dumont, among […]