Father’s Day Gift Guide: A Rolex Watch for Every Type of Dad
Mother’s Day may be over, but that just means there’s another parent to celebrate soon! Father’s Day this year is Sunday, June 17, so that gives you about a month to plan on what gift you’ll be giving dad. And let’s be honest, dads can sometimes get the short end of the stick when it […]
5 Rolex Daytona Chronographs Sell For Over $1 Million at Phillips Auction
After the record-breaking sale of Paul Newman’s own Rolex Daytona “Paul Newman” watch last year—which sold for an incredible $17.75 million—we were surprised to learn that Phillips Auction was not done with selling high-profile vintage Daytona chronographs. In fact, they organized a vintage Daytona themed sale dubbed “Daytona Ultimatum” that just concluded in Geneva on […]
The Grail Series: Explorers—of Earth and Beyond
For this post in our grail watch series, we’re going to take a look at two examples from Rolex’s perpetually underappreciated Explorer range. ‘Two examples’ may be a slight overstatement however. These are, in every other respect bar the name, the exact same watch. One represents possibly the longest continuous production run of any Rolex […]
The Rolex Caliber 3130
In the multifaceted and often confusing world of Rolex calibers, not only does form always follow function, but sometimes, a less complicated version of a base movement is introduced long after its more complex brethren. Such is the case with the Cal. 3130. Identical in practically every way to the series foundation caliber, the Cal. […]