Messages: 1115 Location: Ng.
Registered: October 2011
What is this vintage Rolex called.
Sun, 25 November 2012 16:06
Please could forumites help identify this watch. I am told that this Rolex chrono was produced before the advent of Daytona. My question is; just as we have the Submariner, Explorer, Daytona, GMT, Yachtmaster, Datejust etc, what is the name of this vintage pre-Daytona Rolex.
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Messages: 10270 Location: London, UK
Registered: October 2003
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Mon, 26 November 2012 06:50
Hello TN;
Nice watch, but I am sorry to tell you that it doesn't actually have a name; it is a nice 1950s antimagnetic three register chronograph, but that is as far as it goes.
Although it is more than a decade earlier than the Daytona, it does actually share a movement with the Daytona; viz, the Valjoux 72 17 jewel calibre.
Good Luck
James
"'Tis with our judgements as our watches: none go just alike, yet each believes his own."
