Rolex Explorer II Shreve Crump & Low the Black Bay was an

the Black Bay was an amalgam of several different vintage models

but it has soft edges

sought after by collectors who admire the model’s origin story or wish to capture the glamor of la dolce vita

A few years later

It comes complete with a Gay Frères beads of rice bracelet

Rolex Explorer II Shreve Crump & Low the Black Bay was anWhen Rolex introduced the Explorer II, their slogan was You can tell by the men who wear them. One man whom Rolex profiled in advertisements was Jean Franois Pernette. At the age of thirteen he became enamored of the world at the center of the Earth. He spent his youth exploring the caves of Bordeaux and the Pyrenees. It was there in the mountains between Spain and France that he made his first discovery: an underground river in the Massif de la