Rolex New Releases 2022
With the long-anticipated demise of Baselworld a couple of years ago, horology fans have instead been turning en mass to its ostensible replacement, Watches & Wonders, for the unveiling of the year’s latest and greatest timepieces. The 2022 event, held at the end of March, brought some 38 brands together in Geneva’s Palexpo, the first […]
The Beckertime Rivalry Series: The Rolex Explorer Versus the Tudor Black Bay 36
In the recognition stakes, both the Rolex Explorer and the Tudor Black Bay 36 occupy a sort of ‘also ran’ position in their respective brand lineups. Not for them the glamorous worlds of the undersea buccaneer, the globetrotting voyager or the racetrack guru. Both marques have plenty of models more than capable of fulfilling those […]
Rolex’s Quartz Models
Many of the terms we have traditionally associated with quartz timepieces are the exact opposites of those we usually associate with Rolex. Cheap, soulless, mass production timepieces, lacking in craftsmanship and heritage. It is no surprise then that the brand has dabbled only very fleetingly with the technology in the past, and even then, seemingly […]
The Beckertime Comparison Series: The Rolex Submariner Vs. The Tudor Pelagos
The basic parameters for what a modern dive watch needs to have to be considered fit for purpose were essentially laid down nearly 70-years ago. And, contrary to what some might think, it wasn’t actually the Rolex Submariner which did it. That honor lies with the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms, designed in 1953 for the French […]