Rolex Explorer 1016 Tropical Gilt Dial Military The watch features incredibly rare

The watch features incredibly rare hands

and fixed spring bars — a design preferred by the Ministry of Defence

with an additional red marker within the bezel for marking times

- Case number 321xxx dates to 1930s

- White dial with painted Roman numerals

Rolex Explorer 1016 Tropical Gilt Dial Military The watch features incredibly rareBorn 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