Rolex Submariner Date Travel the 6139 was the first

the 6139 was the first of three automatic chronographs to be launched that year (Heuer's Calibre 11 and Zenith El-Primero movements were also unveiled that year)

While this example appears never to have seen rough usage

horological uniqueness and killer looks rarely combine so effortlessly

they built their own observatories to determine universal time and developed the concept of interchangeable parts to watchmaking

a little emotional

Rolex Submariner Date Travel the 6139 was the firstThere is an old adage among Rolex Submariner purists: If you need a date function on your dive watch, youve got bigger problems than whats on your wrist. To a certain extent, theyre right. From its original, the Rolex Submariner was a stripped down tool watch, designed with one mission in mind. The clean, matte black dial and symmetrical hour plots was the hallmark of sub aquatic form meets function design. Rolex released the Reference 1680 Submariner