Rolex Explorer 1016 Tropical Gilt Dial gold Decades later

Decades later

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Rolex Explorer 1016 Tropical Gilt Dial gold Decades laterBorn 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