Blog posts from Andy Callan
Rolex’s Secret Watches
There are no more than a tiny handful of brands whose names have gone beyond what they physically produce and have crossed over into metaphor. Rolls Royce is one; now less a carmaker than they are a symbol of perfectionism, their name gets coopted by legions of others when it comes to describing the best […]
The Best Rolex Watches That Don’t Exist (Yet!)
Imagine you were suddenly put in charge of Rolex SA. You get free rein over the company’s gargantuan resources and can bend them to your every whim. You can create any new model you like, and you can do whatever you want to the pieces that already exist. What do you do? Dream Watches It […]
The Top 10 Rolex Day-Date Dials
The Day-Date has been Rolex’s most aspirational model since its introduction in 1956. One-upping the revolutionary Datejust by adding a second calendar complication, it was the first watch ever made to display the day of the week spelled out in full. Unashamedly elitist, it has never been crafted in anything other than the finest precious […]
The Evolution of Timekeeping
The passage of time has always been one of the human race’s central fascinations, and devising methods of measuring that passing has long been an obsession. Where we are now is the result of a 20,000-year process of evolution, and we are by no means at the end. But from the incredibly primitive to the […]