Rolex’s Jewelry Watch: Yellow Gold Ladies’ Datejust Pearlmaster
In 1992, Rolex enhanced the women’s Datejust collection with a new version dubbed the Pearlmaster. Positioned as a jewelry watch, the Datejust Pearlmaster is exclusively crafted in 18k gold—yellow, white, or Everose gold—and more often than not, includes diamonds or other gems. Of course, as a Datejust watch, the Pearlmaster flaunts the famous date window […]
The Future Grail Watch Series: Fat Ladies and Polar Explorers
To run alongside our series on the Rolex holy grail watches, those extremely rare and, usually, incredibly valuable pieces that you might come across once or twice in a lifetime, we’ve decided to root through the brand’s extensive archives and take a look at some of the models that are most definitely heading in that […]
The Rolex Caliber 3075
An unqualified triumph, even by the standards of the most successful watchmakers of all time, the Rolex GMT-Master series has long been the benchmark by which all other dual time zone watches are measured. Starting life in the 1950s and developed in conjunction with Pan-Am Airways, the first of the breed, the ref. 6542, was […]
The Rolex Caliber 5035
You can forgive the Swiss watchmaking industry for dragging its feet when the quartz era dawned. An industry centuries in the making, they had brought mechanical timepieces to an unheard of level of sophistication. They forged movements that were both at the cutting edge of technology and a highly expressive art form. By comparison, the […]