More articles about: Rolex

Last November, in the misty Before Times when people could still share physical space with one another, a ballroom in an exclusive midtown Manhattan hotel welcomed 110 apex watch collectors from 13 countries for cocktails, lunch, and a “sexpile.”Before your head fills ...

Forget separating the artist from his art. For a certain type of collector, it's all about separating the artist from his...watch. Diehard watch enthusiasts are as enthralled with proximity to celebrity as the rest of us. An association with a big-name star ...

Whenever Rolex announces its new collection, it’s always big news. Last July, when Tudor staged its global debut of the Black Bay Fifty-Eight Navy Blue and after months of speculation, the 2020 Rolex collection was unveiled last September 1st.Top Story: These Philippine Airports are ...

The rumormongers had it pretty much right. From the middle of August, when it became known that Rolex would be announcing some major updates September 1 to one of its core lines of watches, the big money was on the famous Submariner, a ...

Buying a watch isn't the first thing on a lot of folks' minds right now, and that's understandable. We should, all of us, be considering how we can give directly to support the cause that people around the country are marching for. Then, we ...

Talk for longer than a couple of minutes to anyone who's really into watches, and you're pretty much guaranteed to hear some version of the following: "A watch tells a story." Yes, in the era of smartphones and fitness trackers, a mechanical ...

How's your day going? Good? Great! I just discovered something that'll make it even better. Because, honestly, how could you not smile a little when you watch a veteran who served during Vietnam discover that the watch he bought for $345.97 (P17,596.03) while he ...

Few Hollywood performances have ever been as chilling as Marlon Brando's turn as Walter E. Kurtz in 1979's Apocalypse Now. Brando brought an unsettling charisma to a Kurtz that feels engrossing to this day, even as he careened through excruciating monologues about the ...

Shopping shouldn’t be confined by gender categories, and this applies to shopping for luxury watches, too. Whether you’re searching for a timepiece to own or a gift to give this holiday season, there are plenty of options in the market that will satisfy anyone’s ...

"Hotline Bling," Drake's 2016 parable on the Shakespearean plight of modern communication, had many scratching their heads. What did the phrase mean? Why was a rapper looking so smug and so torn all at once, on the steps of a bannister-less pastel ...

The original James Bond wore a Rolex. That much we know, because author Ian Fleming made note of it in his Bond novels. Beyond that? Well, it's a bit of a mystery. Fleming himself wore an Explorer, but the best description to ...

They say that what makes a snowflake exceptional is that no two found in nature are exactly alike. That statement doesn’t apply to Tudor’s Snowflake hands, but it doesn’t make them any less desirable. In fact, its version of the snowflake is ...

If there were any doubts that celebritydom does wonders for watch value, Paul Newman put that to rest. Well, Newman's own watch did, in 2017, when his own Rolex Paul Newman Daytona sold at auction in New York for just shy of ...

Rolex is a universally desired brand, by watch fanatics, fledgling collectors, and people who know nothing about 'movements' alike. Take a glance at the new Yacht-Master 42, and it's easy to understand why. Unveiled at Baselworld 2019 (that's the big watch fair in ...

Every year, in the month of March, the watch cognoscenti descends upon the city of Basel, Switzerland for the Olympics of the horological universe, a.k.a. Baselworld—and this time, Rolex wowed the crowd by unveiling its assortment of the newest Rolex watches for ...

“Rolex and Tudor are owned by the same company, you know,” a very stylish man once casually said to me, and honestly, my mind was blown. Perhaps this is common knowledge, but to someone who, at the time, was completely watch-uninitiated, the ...

After a few drinks at a 50th Anniversary Homecoming Reunion (you know how we love those), a man who was easily 20 years younger suddenly trailed off midsentence as he fixed a stare at my left wrist. I thought he was just ...

We know what you’re thinking: You’ve avoided yellow gold all your life because of the image, hammered into you since childhood, of the returning OFW clad in a denim jacket and his signature “Saudi Gold.” It could be why an entire generation ...

Let's cut to the chase: Tudor was established by Hans Wilsdorf—you know, the man who also founded Rolex—as the watch that offered the same dependability of the Swiss luxury timepiece, but at a more accessible price. He was just looking out for ...

Rolex are more trend-makers than followers. Still, they never truly embraced the square-dialed watch, and only a very limited few were ever produced. This means they're incredibly rare—more so than the vintage Oyster Perpetuals and Submariners that've set the watch world alight—and ...