Big news from Rolex today as the brand has announced a special version of the modern Rolex Daytona in honor of the 100th year of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, an annual automotive endurance race that is currently underway in France. This new white gold model, which is based closely upon the updated references launched … Read more

Here’s something I didn’t expect. In my first meeting at my first Watches & Wonders, it was an entirely new dressy Rolex that I couldn’t take off my wrist. Sure, we passed around a bunch of updated sport models – stay tuned for coverage of those too – but the new Rolex Perpetual 1908 might be Rolex’s … Read more

Rolex’s long-held adherence to discretion and conservatism seemingly came to a sudden end this year with the release of the Rolex Day-Date 36 “jigsaw puzzle” dial and Oyster Perpetual ‘Celebration’ collections (which I have affectionately begun referring to as the “Puzzles & Bubbles” watches). Taking a watch so associated with buttoned-up elegance and prestige that it earned … Read more

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