Rolex Explorer 1016 Tropical Gilt Dial fn-6% On the wrist this watch

On the wrist this watch feels really special and wears much larger than the 33mm case would lead you to believe

) when side buttons are closed

It has a blue cabochon winding crown and a lovely black lacquer dial

including both boxes

- Color-change dial – originally silver soleil

Rolex Explorer 1016 Tropical Gilt Dial fn-6% On the wrist this watchBorn for high altitude Himalayan climbing, the Explorer arrived in the 1950s, launching in the same year as the Submariner and the Turn O Graph. As Rolex once put it in an advertisement, We built the Rolex Explorer as there are no watch repair shops on top of the Matterhorn. To say it was a major year for Rolex and for watches more broadly would be an understatement. It helped shape the company Rolex would become, defined the modern sports watch