Rolex Explorer 1016 Tropical Gilt Dial le-locle This Omega is fitted with

This Omega is fitted with the pictured leather strap

Dating to circa 1952

The rose gold lug is complemented by the rose gold dagger hands without lume

As mentioned before

Rolex Explorer 1016 Tropical Gilt Dial le-locle This Omega is fitted withBorn 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