Posts Tagged ‘Jean-Claude Killy’
6036 Rolex ‘Jean-Claude Killy’ Datocompax, Pink Gold
There’s Rolex, and then there’s complicated Rolex. The latter, we’ve only seen a handful of times and it’s pretty much all vintage. You could make an argument for the Sky-Dweller, but I wouldn’t want to. No, full calendar and split seconds Rolex emerged in the 50s and disappeared as quickly as they came, now extremely…
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Every discipline has its greats. Rock has the Stones. Italian has risotto. Le Mans has the 917. Absolute pricks have Kim Jong Un, second only to Jake Paul. But ski racing? Skiing has Jean-Claude Killy. The French alpine skier took home a trifecta of golds in the 1968 Winter Olympics, a dominant force. This skill…
Read More‘Jean-Claude Killy’ 6036 Rolex Datocompax in Rose Gold
In all their 115 years of operation, Rolex have only made a handful of what we’d call complicated watches. If you don’t know Rolex very well, you kind of just assume that, ‘Surely there are a few complicated references from all those years right? Maybe a Rolex perpetual calendar from 1962?’ Sort of and no,…
Read More‘Jean-Claude Killy’ 6236 Rolex Datocompax
The words Rolex and complicated very rarely appear together. Rolex stands for professional watchmaking. Originally tools for purpose, elevated throughout the decades to objects of luxury. In all the coronet’s magnificent lore, there are only a handful of references that fall into the general definition of complicated. Offhand, there’s the recent Sky-Dweller, incredibly gorgeous 6062…
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