The history of Rolex is inextricably intertwined with the water-resistant wristwatch
The history of Rolex is inextricably intertwined with the water-resistant wristwatch
While the history of the perfect UK replica Rolex diver’s replica watches begins with the Oyster Perpetual Submariner of 1953, one of the brand’s landmark achievement in water-resistant cases is more recent: the Oyster Perpetual Rolex Deepsea launched in 2008 that incorporates the Ringlock system.With the innovative Ringlock system, Rolex surmounted an enduring obstacle in building a deeper-diving watch – a case that grew in proportion to the depth rating. The Ringlock system is a patented case architecture that fundamentally rethought the traditional approach to a diver’s watch, which allowed the Rolex Deepsea to achieve a water-resistance rating of 3,900 m with a 44 mm case.The utility of the Ringlock was proven in 2022 with the Oyster Perpetual Deepsea Challenge that took the Oyster case to the limits of horological engineering. Featuring a 50 mm case in RLX titanium, the best AAA fake Rolex Deepsea Challenge watches is water resistant to 11,000 m – the all-time water-resistance record for a mechanical wristwatch.
The history of Rolex is inextricably intertwined with the water-resistant wristwatch. Six years after establishing the brand in 1908, Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf wrote to Bienne-based movement maker Aegler, “We must find a way to create a waterproof wristwatch”. By 1926, Wilsdorf had achieved his goal with the launch of the Oyster, a waterproof wristwatch which had a bezel, case back, and crown that each screwed into the case to ensure water tightness.Rolex continued to notch up achievements in water-resistant watches, including the Oyster Perpetual Submariner in 1953 and the Oyster Perpetual Sea-Dweller of 1967, both serial production Rolex copy watches for sale available to the public. But the depths were truly reached in 1960 with an experimental fake rolex watch, the Rolex Deep Sea Special.
An example of the Rolex Deep Sea Special was mounted to the hull of the Trieste, a bathyscaphe that became the first manned vessel to reach the deepest point on Earth when it descended 10,916 m to the Mariana Trench on January 23, 1960 with Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard and U.S. Navy officer Don Walsh at the helm.In the following decades Rolex continued to work with deep sea diving professionals and researchers, including French deep sea engineering outfit Compagnie Maritime d’Expertises (Comex) and the American government’s Tektite project.
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