17013

Inspired by the announcement of new Rolex model at Watches and Wonders today I’m enjoying my “pre-Land Dweller” model ☺️☺️☺️. This is reference 1630 c1978 which actually it is not powered by a quartz movement watch but by a mechanic/automatic movement 157

Here are some live pics from A Blog To Watch of the 40 mm oyster steel & white gold Rolex Land-Dweller ref. 127334 powered by caliber 7135 . To put things into perspective, I added some photos of the Oysterquartz ref. 17014 & 17013 and one photo of th

For those of us who are OQ lovers, this new model is like the rebirth of an excellent design, however you want to link it, be it a 1630, 5100, or 17013, it's all the same to me, and now with a new caliber for Rolex, curiously for the same reason that the

They say the case is thinner than a regular one. That new caliber, which is also exposed, makes it great. Personally, I always wanted Rolex to bring back the OQ case, and I wanted it in an automatic caliber because it was a very unique Rolex case back the

I have this 17013, which by the way I did Rolex service on, I changed the engine and they told me that they will continue making spare parts for these OQ and that at least the new engine has a lifespan of 20 years, I thought it was excellent.

Accuracy is still top notch. Every few years making a trip to the Rolex Centre for its free lifetime battery replacement. It's been a 'pilgrimage' of sort LoL.

Your hands are from the previous ones and thinner but possibly not longer, you should consider the graphics on the dial which are more towards the center, the current hands are thicker but not longer, I have some hands here both thin from the old date day

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Lot of similarities to the era of Gerald Genta’s Royal Oak

This was the case where at that time the idea of quartz fell short of the model, (being one of the most beautiful quartz cal. that there were in its time), I remember that in that time 80s, 90s, there were others with similarity of cases like the AP, PP n