Blog posts from Andy Callan

The story of the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona is a story almost dominated by its movements. The original Daytona was Launched in 1963 and powered by a manually wound caliber from Swiss ébauche manufacturer Valjoux. This was possibly the closest Rolex had ever come to experiencing failure. The buying public was well used to the convenience […]

It’s a very rare occurrence when Rolex gives in to peer pressure. Over the years, critics have poked fun at their overriding design ethos of slow and gradual evolution, rather than launching radically revamped versions of their trademark pieces or entirely new models altogether. But their steady progression in developing their central core of watches […]

To run alongside our series on the Rolex holy grail watches, those extremely rare and, usually, incredibly valuable pieces that you might come across once or twice in a lifetime, we’ve decided to root through the brand’s extensive archives and take a look at some of the models that are most definitely heading in that […]

An unqualified triumph, even by the standards of the most successful watchmakers of all time, the Rolex GMT-Master series has long been the benchmark by which all other dual time zone watches are measured. Starting life in the 1950s and developed in conjunction with Pan-Am Airways, the first of the breed, the ref. 6542, was […]