Rolex has always been an innovative brand with practical innovations to help the watches become the best that they can be. These include perfecting the self-winding rotor and patenting their Easy Link clasps that expand or contract by 5mm increments to compensate for temperature fluctuations, to name a few. They haven’t gone too much off … Read more

Because of all the excitement caused by the launch of the steel and ceramic Daytona ref. 116500LN at Baselworld 2016, it’s easy to forget that there were other new Rolex watches there too. Case in point is the highly attractive, yet somewhat overlooked, Rolex Yacht-Master 37 ref. 268622. The ref. 286622 is the smaller version of the … Read more

In 1960, the bathyscaphe Trieste descended 10,916 meters (35,814 feet) to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the ocean. Attached to the outside of the Trieste was the Rolex Deep Sea Special, a huge prototype of a watch with a massive bubble crystal, specially designed to make the trip to the … Read more

Today, Rolex introduces its Deepsea Challenge. It is based on the 2012 prototype Deepsea Challenge developed for filmmaker and explorer James Cameron. That watch accompanied him on a 10,908 meter (35,787 foot) descent into the Mariana Trench on March 26th of that year. And now, after ten years, Rolex shows us the commercial version of … Read more

In need of no introduction is the Rolex GMT-Master II 126710 BLRO, affectionately referred to as the “Pepsi.” Based on the darling of mid-century pilots and vintage aficionados alike, the Pepsi is virtually a future-classic version of an already-classic model. Seen here in the at-the-time hotly anticipated steel, released in 2018. Underneath are the usual trappings … Read more

Let’s hop into our time machine back to 2016. At Baselworld, Rolex announced two contemporary sports models with Arabic numerals – each serving as an update to a known collection in the brand’s stable of classic models. One was the Explorer 214270, the “Mark II” edition, with lumed three, six, and nine markers. The other … Read more

For decades, the Rolex Sea-Dweller maintained a 40mm diameter. However, that all changed in 2017 when the brand introduced the reference 126600. As the latest edition of its famed deep saturation diver, the Rolex Sea-Dweller 126600 is complete with a 43mm case, integration to the cal. 3235 Perpetual movement, a Cyclops magnification lens on the dial, and … Read more

This time last year, Jon wrote a story about a trio of new special dial iterations for the Rolex Datejust in 36mm, including two with subtle foliage patterns. Not to leave the smaller 31mm Datejust out in the cold, Rolex dropped a bouquet of flora-focused dial iterations at Watches & Wonders 2022 with a fanciful yet (mostly) … Read more

When a new watch comes out, I try to reserve judgment. First impressions are fine and good, and necessary to do what I do for a living – and, hey, once you’ve held a watch in your own two hands you can go nuts with your opinions – but I don’t love how everyone is … Read more

For more than 60 years, the largest Rolex Datejust models had 36mm cases. However, by the late-2000s, Rolex finally joined in on the large men’s watch trend by releasing bigger versions of its dress watches – including a bigger Datejust. This initial effort was known as the Datejust II and it was the precursor to … Read more