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Review: The Rolex Day-Date ref. 1803
Launched in 1956, the Day-Date arrived 11 years after its closest cousin, the Datejust. An immediate success and elegant statement of intent from Rolex, it was the first self-winding, waterproof wristwatch ever made to display both the date and the day of the week spelled out in full. Its twin complications, and its solely precious […]
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What Are Rolex Dials Made From?
Aesthetically, there is no element more important on a watch than its dial. As well as being tasked with displaying all the relevant information, it is what gives a timepiece its character. Get it wrong, and it doesn’t matter how good the watch is in every other respect, it will likely fail to find an […]
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Rolex Versus the Rest
I had a friend once who claimed he hated The Beatles. He would actually get quite vociferous about it, putting forward all manner of ill-thought out explanations as to why he considered them overrated—they lacked creativity, they had average musical ability at best, they were more a product of hype than talent, etc. What it […]
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Radioactive Rolex
I’m sure you remember the scene in Dr. No, the first outing on the big screen for Sean Connery’s James Bond. 007 is off to search Crab Key, the island lair of the titular villain, to investigate the origin of a number of radioactive rock samples. Like any conscientious civil servant, Bond tests his Geiger […]
