The classic Explorer models (this along with the 1016) are my favourite watch designs of all time. Maybe next year I will try to get my hands on a good, honest 1016, it is my personal grailwatch and after a bit of consolidation of my collection still doab
...It took me 30 years to convince my wife to let me buy her a 'nice' watch. She was happy with quartz fashion brands. I finally got her permission for our 30th anniversary and got her something similar to this one in 2017 or so... The prices have definit
What attracted me most in this watch, was the combination of an annual calender, value for money and it's versatility. A watch you can wear always and everywhere. Being used to wearing a day-date (WG) the bezel doesn't bother me. Regarding the colour of t
As stated in the first part, this year Rolex has gone well beyond the "simple" renewal of the Submariner collection. In fact, the new features of the Oyster Perpetual are certainly even more important from a strategic point of view for the brand. Indeed,
Of the great and most gentlemanly Sir Jackie Stewart’s watches he wore through the years at the Australian Grand Prix ... not in any order as I didn’t manage to catch all his watches in the earlier years when he was an ambassador for Rolex. I had the priv
I chose a simple 39mm Rolex Oyster Perpetual as my first wristwatch from The Crown. Close to six years of flipping lower and mid tier brands to include Swiss, German, and Japanese, my buying and selling slowed tremendously over the last 2 years with basic
I had posted here a few months ago, to express my surprise that the new iteration of the classic Datejust 36mm seemed to have flown completely under the radar at Basel 2019. After all, this the iconic model most associated with Rolex over the past 7 decad