Blog posts from Andy Callan
The Top 5 Watches to Take on Vacation
What could be more fun than planning your ideal vacation? There’s a couple of ways to do this. You can spend days and weeks on research of the best destinations, perhaps creating a spreadsheet to weigh up things like budget, climate, safety, local culture, food, transportation, activities and visa requirements, etc. Or you could lob […]
The Rolex Innovation Timeline: The Cerachrom Bezel
Ceramic has been something of a peripheral watchmaking material ever since its introduction in 1962 with Rado’s DiaStar. Over the years it has been used almost as a novelty in watches from the likes of Omega with their Black Tulip ‘Cermet’ models (CERamic-METal) and IWC’s Da Vinci ref. 3755, both from and very much of the […]
Top 10 Most Underrated Rolex Models to Invest in Right Now: Rolex Explorer II ref. 16570 Black
If you remember the first article in this latest series, we looked at some of the factors which can affect the future investment value of Rolex watches. Among them were: the reference being discontinued (causing a natural scarcity), the watch in question having a short lived production run (for the same reason), some sort of […]
How Many Jewels are There in a Rolex Watch?
We’re running a short series of articles on the real minutiae of Rolex; literally, what makes them tick. We’ve already looked at the number of screws in a few of the brand’s most popular models, and this time around we’re going to be concentrating on jewels. Now jewels, when it comes to watchmaking, can be […]
