Category: Rolex

Rolex Reference number Guide: The Go-to Resource List

All Rolex watches have two engravings on the metal of its case. These engravings are what are known as the reference number and the serial number. The serial number can be found on the 6 o’clock side of the case of the watch, but from 2010, Rolex started engraving the serial number of their watches on the rehaut instead, which is the inner metal ring below the crystal. During a period, though, some Rolex watches got the serial number engraved both on the case and on the rehaut, but on modern Rolex watches, the serial number is only engraved on the rehaut.

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Vintage Rolex advertisements – a Large collection

Having operated in the watch industry for more than a century, Rolex is the world’s most well-known luxury brand, distinguished from its competitors through portraying and clever marketing.

Rolex is seldom compared with other watch brands because the brand has worked extremely hard at portraying it as a brand that has no real competitors, or no equals. There’s Rolex, and then there’s the rest.

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Rolex Explorer I 14270: a Complete Guide

Rolex’s Explorer range is, just like most other watch ranges of Rolex, a model that has had a long and interesting history, and which has been improved and refined to perfection over the years.

The Rolex Explorer has many historical moments under its name, and it is indeed a true classic. In Rolex’s lineup of Explorer watches, there is both the Rolex Explorer I and the Rolex Explorer II, and over the course of their history, they have both been improved, iterated, and changed visually in design.

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Buying Your First Rolex: Complete Guide to your First Rolex Purchase

Rolex is arguably one of the most recognizable and prestigious names in watchmaking. For many, owning a Rolex is a goal and a dream, but once that dream gets closer to becoming a reality, how do you know which Rolex watch to own? There are literally hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of Rolex models that you can choose from, so how can you possibly just settle for one?

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Rolex Retail Price List 2022 & 2023

Before the new year of 2020, Rolex announced it would increase the prices for all its models in 2020. The average price increase has been estimated to be about 7% across all watches in EUR price, but the actual price increase for each specific model ultimately depends on the country and the local currency.

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