2012 Rolex Oyster Perpetual 36mm "Pink Explorer" 116000
Ref: 116000
Specification
Lugs : 20mm
Condition : Pre-Owned
Box & Papers : Box & Card
Case Material : Stainless Steel
Warranty : 12-Months NON-Waterproof Warranty
Points of Mention
This watch is sold with its Rolex presentation box and Rolex card. The watch comes paired with its original Rolex 20mm signed 3-link stainless steel Oyster bracelet secured by an Oysterlock safety clasp and will fit up to a 6.9-inch wrist. The watch is from Circa. 2012 and is sold in worn condition, but overall great condition as you can see. The watch comes with our 12-Months NON-Waterproof Warranty.
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The Watch
Here we have a 2012 Rolex Oyster Perpetual "Pink Explorer" 116000 with a 36mm OysterSteel 904L Stainless steel case that gently curves over your wrist towards the finely tapered lugs, a lug-to-lug length of 43.5mm and a case thickness of 11.5mm giving the watch an impressive wrist presence. On the right side, a screw-down TwinLock signed crown. A smooth bezel holds a flat sapphire crystal above a black dial, an outer minute track has applied 3, 6, 9 Arabic numerals and baton indexes filled with a distinctive pink lume marking the hours, elegant slender baton hands filled with white lume are complemented by a tapered sweeping second hand, at 12 o’clock we have the applied Rolex Coronet “Rolex Oyster Perpetual” and at 6 o’clock “Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified. On the reverse, a coin-edged solid case back, inside an automatic Rolex Cal. 3130, 31 jewels, 28,800 beats per hour. The movement is encased in a protective Faraday cage, taken from the Rolex Milgauss, and a Bidirectional Perpetual rotor, Paramagnetic blue Parachrom hairspring, and stop-seconds/hacking function. The watch comes paired with its 20mm Rolex 904L brushed Stainless Steel bracelet secured by a signed Oysterlock safety clasp and will fit up to a 6.9-inch wrist and comes with its Rolex presentation box and Rolex card.
Personal Note
This is a watch that has left a lot of people perplexed as they had no idea Rolex even made such a watch, part of the Oyster Perpetual line in 36mm, this reference 116000 features an "Explorer" dial with pink for the numerals and indices! A beautiful play on a simple watch which makes you take a second glance. I would not hesitate to add this wonderful example to your collection.
The Brand
In 1905, German-born Hans Wilsdorf and his brother-in-law Alfred Davis set up a company in London that imported Swiss movements which were installed in British cases and sold to jewellers who put their names on the dials. Recognising the potential for their brand, Wilsdorf created the brand name Rolex in 1908. In 1910, a Rolex became the first wristwatch to carry the Swiss Certificate of Chronometric Precision, awarded by the Official Watch Rating Centre in Bienne, Switzerland. Demand for Rolex watches rose swiftly, and British taxes on the Swiss movements Rolex used prompted Wilsdorf to move the business to Geneva, Switzerland, in 1919. With production costs lowered, Wilsdorf quickly set out to solve the age-old problem of moisture and dust entering a watch case and damaging the movement. The Rolex watchmakers came up with a fully sealed watch case, which Wilsdorf named the Oyster, and released to an appreciative audience in 1926. In 1931, Rolex introduced the first automatic winding wristwatch, giving it the legendary name Oyster Perpetual. In 1945, they released the Datejust. The Datejust was the first watch to have the date jump instantaneously at midnight. The 1950s saw a whole lot of releases such as the Air-King (1958), the Explorer (1953), the Submariner (1953), the GMT Master (1955), the Day-Date (1956), the electromagnetic field resistant Milgauss (1956), the Lady-Datejust (1957) and the first Deep Sea model (1960). Wilsdorf’s death in 1960, saw ownership of Rolex S.A. (a collection of sub-companies) passed to the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation which was founded by Wilsdorf in 1945, the mission of which is simply to sustain Rolex S.A. indefinitely.