BeckerTime BLOG

There was no doubt, on the lead up to Watches & Wonders 2026, that Rolex was going to do something to celebrate 100-years of their Oyster case—arguably the most significant invention in the history of the wristwatch. The Friday before the event, the manufacture rather let the cat out of the bag with their customary teaser video […]

Even after 120-years in the business, most of them at the top, Rolex still comes through with an annual surprise for the industry. Myself and other watch writers spend most of the first half of the year on our thankless ‘Predictions’ articles, trying to forecast what new developments might emerge from the world’s most successful […]

For most of us, it is the new watches Rolex brings out every year which causes the greatest excitement. However, in some ways, it is the ones they choose to remove from the catalog which can be just as noteworthy.  When a Rolex is discontinued, the entire secondary market gets almost immediately reshaped—and especially if […]

As many of you are probably aware, the watches you see on Rolex’s website or in their stores (you know, the ones with ‘For Exhibition Purposes Only’ signs underneath them) only tell part of the story.  Behind the models available to mere mortals is another level of Rolex watch; the so-called ‘off-catalog’ pieces only accessible or even […]