Rolex Wristwatch : Luxury, Famous, And Legendary
Rolex is the largest manufacturer of Swiss made wristwatches. A Rolex watch is a reflection of the top class technology and innovation in watch making and may take up to a year to manufacture. It is one of the most popular luxurious watch brands in the world. Rolex Oyster has been a symbol of style and status for over a century. But now, you too can be a proud owner of this masterpiece at a wholesale price.
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Rolex Oyster History
The Rolex Oyster is perhaps the most revolutionary and profound development in watch history.
What Exactly Is A Rolex Oyster? So what makes a Rolex Oyster an Oyster? The winding crown acts like a screw-on cap or mini jar lid and has watertight gaskets in it. The best way to think of it is to imagine a submarine hatch that is threaded and has to be twisted or spun open or closed.
Rolex Oyster is the most famous quality watch there is. Here’s a brief rundown of the history of the Rolex wristwatch.
Year 1905
Hans Wildorf & Davies form Wilsdorf & Davis in order to create wrist watches.
Year 1908
Wildorf needed a name for his soon to be created masterpiece: Rolex.
Year 1910
Rolex obtains the first official chronometer certification ever awarded to a wristwatch.
Year 1914
London’s Kew Observatory awards the Rolex wristwatch a “Chronometer” rating.
Year 1926
Rolex develops and patents the first airtight, dustproof and waterproof watch – named the Oyster.
Year 1927
The Rolex Oyster crosses 26 miles of the English Channel – working perfectly after the swim by Mercedes Gleitze.
Year 1931
Re-birth of the Perpetual (automatic) watch, a self winding mechanism first invented by Abraham-Louis Perrelet.
Year 1945
The Oyster Datejust goes on sale. Automatically sets the correct date for each month (perpetual month).
Year 1953
The Submariner goes on sale.
Year 1954
The Oyster Perpetual Ladydate goes on sale.
Year 1955
The Oyster GMT Master is released, reads time in any two time zones.
Year 1956
The Oyster Day-Date goes on sale.
Year 1960
A bathyscaphe (A free-diving deep-sea vessel) carries a Rolex Watch 35,000 feet into the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
Year 1967
The Oyster Sea-Dweller is released – waterproof to a depth of 611 m / 2000 ft.
Year 1971
The Oyster Explorer II is released.
Year 1978
The Oyster Perpetual Date Sea-Dweller is tested waterproof to a depth of 1222 m / 4000 ft.
Year 1988
The Cosmograph Daytona is fitted with a perpetual rotor.
Year 1992
The Professional range of Rolex watch gains another superb wristwatch – the Yacht-Master.
Year 2004
The Rolex Submariner celebrates its 50th Anniversary. Rolex watch celebrates with a special commemorative model.
Rolex Oyster Innovations
Here are The Rolex’s innovations :
The first wristwatch with an automatically changing date on the dial (Rolex Datejust, 1945)
The first self-winding Rolex wristwatch powered by an internal mechanism that used the movement of the wearer’s arm. This not only made watch-winding unnecessary, but kept the power from the mainspring more consistent resulting in more reliable time keeping.
The first wristwatch with an automatically changing day and date on the dial (Rolex Day-Date)
Rolex collaborated with a consortium of 16 Swiss watch manufacturers to develop the Beta 21 quartz movement used in their Rolex Quartz Date 5100. Within about five years of research, design, and development, Rolex created the “clean-slate” 5035/5055 movement that would eventually power the Rolex Oysterquartz.
The first wristwatch case waterproof to 100 m (330 ft) (Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner, 1953)
Rolex was also the first watch company to create a wristwatch water resistant to 100 m (330 ft). Rolex watch attached to the side of the Trieste bathyscaphe, which went to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
The first wristwatch to show two time zones at once (Rolex GMT Master, 1954)
The most iconic model is the Rolex GMT Master, which was originally developed in 1954 at the request of Pan Am Airways to assist its pilots with the problem of crossing multiple time zones when on transcontinental flights (GMT standing for Greenwich Mean Time).
The first watchmaker to earn chronometer certification for a wristwatch
Rolex is the largest manufacturer of Swiss made certified chronometers. In 2005 more than half the annual production of COSC certified watches were Rolexes. To date, Rolex still holds the record for the most certified chronometer movements in the category of wristwatches.
Rolex Oyster Perpetual Other Improvements
Rolex produced specific models suitable for the extremes of deep-sea diving, mountain climbing and aviation. The beginning sports models included the Rolex Submariner and the Rolex Oyster Perpetual.
The company is now starting to introduce ceramic bezels across the range of professional sports watches. They are available on the Submariner and GMT Master II models. The ceramic bezel is not influenced by UV-light and is very scratch resistant.
Rolex Oyster Modern Models
Here are modern models of Rolex wristwatch :
» Air-King
» Date
» Datejust
» Datejust II
» Datejust Turn-O-Graph
» Lady Datejust Pearlmaster
» Daytona (Paul Newman Daytona)
» Day-Date
» Day-Date II
» Day-Date Oyster Perpetual
» Explorer
» Explorer II
» GMT Master II
» Masterpiece
» Milgauss
» Oysterquartz
» Sea Dweller
» Sea Dweller DeepSea
» Submariner
» Yacht-Master
» Yacht-Master II
Cellini models
» Quartz Ladies
» Quartz Mens
» Cellinium
» Cestello Ladies
» Cestello Mens
» Danaos Mens
» Prince
The New 2010 Models
» The New Datejust Lady 31 Collection
» The New Explorer
» The New Submariner Date
The leading name in luxury watches, Rolex has been the pre-eminent symbol of performance and prestige for over a century.
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