Then and Now: The First Rolex Oyster Perpetual vs. The Current Oyster Perpetual
In today’s edition of our Then and Now series where we compare the first edition of a specific Rolex model with its most recent version, we’re highlighting a very special watch—the Oyster Perpetual. While these days, the Rolex Oyster Perpetual is considered as one of the brand’s simplest and least expensive watches, that was not […]
Tool Watch Time: Rolex Watches for Sailing
From diving to motorsports to flying to exploring, Rolex has a knack for creating watches for a specific niche in mind that quickly become appealing to a much wider audience. And it’s no different with their Rolex watches for sailing. Rolex’s roots in the world of sailing stretch back to the 1950s when the brand […]
Then and Now: The First Oyster Perpetual Date vs. The Current Oyster Perpetual Date
For this edition of our Then and Now series, we’re diving into an often overlooked and misunderstood watch model: the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date model. Sometimes confused with the larger Datejust or the manual-wound Oysterdate, the Oyster Perpetual Date is, in fact, its own collection. It is also one of the oldest Rolex models still […]
Then and Now: The First Rolex Explorer vs. The Current Rolex Explorer
For this edition of our Then and Now series, we’ve selected one of Rolex’s oldest sports watch models still in production today—the Explorer. Although we’ve clearly demonstrated in our past Then & Now articles that Rolex has a knack for maintaining fundamental design details of a particular watch while still managing to vastly improve the […]