Today we’ve got a vintage version of “Want This, Get This”, and its timing couldn’t be better. 2013 is the convergence of two important events in the watch world: the 50th anniversary of the Rolex ...

24 Hours of Le Mans, the oldest and greatest endurance race on the planet, celebrates its centenary this year, an important moment in its history that deserves to be marked accordingly. Rolex, a brand ...

4 x 4 cm. (1.6 x 1.6 in.) Introducing the epitome of sophistication and precision, the Rolex Daytona Reference 116519LN is powered by the renowned Caliber 4130, a masterpiece of engineering and ...

The Rolex "Platona" was released in 2013 in celebration of 50th anniversary of the Rolex Daytona. It captured the hearts of collectors with its ice blue dial, brown cerachrom bezel and noble platinum ...

If you're a lover of watches, it's almost impossible to not be aware of Rolex. In fact, even if you're not that big of a watch lover, the brand will still have permeated your consciousness through ...

The Rolex Daytona is the holy grail of the watch world, and one rare example just added a whole new title: the most expensive automatic chronograph ever sold. Reference 16516 was snapped up for a ...

What do British cigarettes and a vintage Rolex Daytona have in common? Phillips’s upcoming watch sale will soon show us. On Tuesday, the auction house in association with Bacs & Russo revealed that it ...

Rolex released the second generation of its now iconic Daytona chronograph in 1988. I was a kid in Chatham, New Jersey, an area densely populated with wealthy stockbrokers and insurance salesmen who ...

Want more watch coverage? Get About Time, Esquire’s free newsletter devoted to the watch world, in your inbox every Sunday. Sign up here Chronograph watches hold a unique place in horology – serving ...

The first-ever Rolex ‘Rainbow’ Daytona chronograph watch is set to come to auction and could fetch more than $3.5 million. The Rolex from the 1990s will be put on the block in Geneva on November 8. In ...

Welcome to “Watches You Should Know,” a new bi-weekly (the once-every-two-weeks kind) column highlighting little-known watches new and old that have interesting stories or have had a surprising impact ...