Blog posts from Andy Callan

Strangely, even though Rolex’s Explorer II is steaming towards its 50th birthday, we are still only into its fourth individual reference. It is one of those little facts about the series that seems to underline its long held status as being among the ‘forgotten Rolex’. In general, the watchmaker’s offerings tend to fall into one […]

For this edition of our comparison series, we are going to pit a watch with one of the longest uninterrupted production runs in Rolex’s entire collection, the inimitable Datejust, against its nearest rival from sister brand Tudor, the Style. As you would expect, the two share plenty of similarities. Both come in a wide-ranging array […]

If there was ever an ‘all things to all people’ watch, it is the Rolex Datejust. From its debut way back in 1945, a revolutionary launch that put the brand firmly on the map, it has remained at the top of the company’s bestseller list for three quarters of a century. It is an extraordinary […]

In many collector’s eyes, Rolex’s ref. 16XXX family represents the last of the vintage Datejust models, and the all-steel ref. 16030 especially. By the time the series was released in 1977, the name was already more than 30-years old, having been launched the same year World War II ended. It took over from the four-digit […]