Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Archived Starting with the steel model

Starting with the steel model

features a matte black dial with applied markers and contrasting white subsidiary registers and luminous red hands

Unlike its American counterparts by Bulova and Hamilton

the same company that produced dials for the Rolex Daytona

and has just received a top to bottom mechanical overhaul

Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Archived Starting with the steel modelWhile the name Rolex Oyster Perpetual doesn't designate a particular model or line, it does signify a few things. First, that the watch will have the trademark Rolex Oyster case. Second, that the movement beating inside that Oyster case will be Rolex's famed Perpetual movement. Rolex first patented the Oyster case in 1925, but the quest for a waterproof and dust proof case began shortly before the First World War. The cases of the Great War and the