Posts Tagged ‘Gilt Dial’
Gilt Dial 1675 Rolex GMT-Master
Immediately after the wild success of the 6542, Rolex’s GMT-Master really entered its own. The dial wasn’t going to kill you with radium, the bezel wasn’t going to shatter by coughing on it, and crown guards had entered the chat. The 1675 is undoubtedly one of the great pillars of vintage sport Rolex. But the gilt…
Read MoreGilt Dial 1016 Rolex Explorer
The 1016 has this quality very few watches can pull off. First, it’s never out of place. But more importantly, it is equally at home in a dive bar in rural New Mexico or at the Atlas Bar in Singapore. To put it another way, it’s classless, capable, and collected. If you just require one…
Read MoreGilt Dial 1675 Rolex GMT-Master
The 1675 GMT-Master is what you would call a classic of the genre. It’s casual, refined, and still very capable. But finding a great gilt example seems to be getting harder by the day, but not as hard as this watch is getting me. The 1675 was introduced in the very heart of the gilt…
Read More6150 Rolex Precision Pre-Explorer
What is a Rolex Explorer? A 3-6-9 dial and sterile, steel bezel? Wearing a cardigan and doing no Exploring? Or does it have to say Explorer on it? This is the central question fueling a debate that’s been raging between the farthest gone of us for some time. This 6150 defined the case shape and…
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