Rolex Explorer Shreve Crump & Low a movement designer that had

a movement designer that had cut his teeth at Vacheron Constantin and come to Schaffhausen as IWC's Technical Director in 1944

With styling cues torn from the pages of Heuer and Omega's books (note the thin acrylic bezel's resemblance to the Seamaster 300 and the slightly curved case that screams early manual-wind Autavia)

it offers all of the Bauhaus appeal that you could possibly want

a man is just sitting down to his morning hot chocolate and croissant

Truman purchased one in 1945

Rolex Explorer Shreve Crump & Low a movement designer that hadWhy We Love It This year at Watches And Wonders, Rolex unveiled its newest iteration of the vaunted Rolex Explorer (also known as the Explorer I) and a sigh of relief rushed across the collector community the watch was back to its original size of 36mm! For the past decade, the Explorer has only been offered in an 'upsized' 39mm case, which retained the classic dial layout and functionality of the original, but upset the purists with its seemingly