The Watch Collector Series: Athletes and Their Rolex
Each year, U.S. business magazine Forbes publishes its list of the highest paid professional athletes, and the names for 2018 have just been released. While most of the stars that head up this year’s top earners are no surprise, as you scan down the line-up, it is interesting to see how several of the world’s […]
Tool Watch Time: Rolex Watches for Exploring
For the next chapter in our Tool Watch Time series, we investigate the utilitarian Rolex watch created to answer specific needs. This leads us to take a look at Rolex tool watches for explorers and adventurers. Rolex has focused on the exploration community as far back as the 1950s and continues to do so today. […]
Rolex Watch to Star in Magnum P.I., Again
Readers of a certain age will remember the classic 1980’s television show, Magnum P.I. Starring Tom Selleck, the CBS show followed the life of private investigator Thomas Magnum as he solved crimes in sunny Oahu, Hawaii and served as head of security of the lavish estate owned by wealthy author, Robin Masters. The estate came […]
Then and Now: The First Rolex Deepsea vs. The Current Deepsea
In our previous articles of our Then and Now series, we’ve compared the first reference of a specific Rolex model with its most current iteration. Typically, the first and last Rolex models have decades of history between them, particularly for older collections such as the Oyster Perpetual, Datejust, and Explorer. However, today, we’re delving into […]