Rolex Explorer 1016 Tropical Gilt Dial Military - Case number 321xxx dates

- Case number 321xxx dates to 1930s

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The watch features incredibly rare hands

Hand wound caliber 2003 with 2805 QP perpetual calendar module

- Black and silver bezel

Rolex Explorer 1016 Tropical Gilt Dial Military - Case number 321xxx datesBorn 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