BeckerTime BLOG

Back in the day, the name Rolex conjured up images of rugged professional watches, hardy tool-like models for those venturing out into the wildest extremes, whether at the top of the world or diving into the abyssal depths. More recently, it has become associated with notions of luxury, expense and opulence—worn as symbols of success […]

In vintage Rolex watch collecting circles, the Daytona is basically a brand on its own. In fact, Paul Newman’s (the man responsible for popularizing old-school manual-wound Daytona watches with Rolex’s Exotic dials) very own vintage Rolex Daytona set a new world record for the most expensive wristwatch sold at auction when it fetched $17.8 million. […]

As a company, Rolex has far more often set the rules than played by them. They have remained as unaffected by the prevailing and usually fleeting trends of the day as it is possible to be, and nowhere is that more evident than in the dimensions of their watches. While all about them the output […]

In the newest chapter of our Modern Rolex, Future Classics series, we are turning our attention to the now discontinued Rolex Sea-Dweller 116600. Often referred to as the “last classic Sea-Dweller” there are several factors that almost guarantee (nothing is 100% guaranteed, of course, in vintage Rolex collecting) that the Sea-Dweller ref. 116600 will be […]