Rolex Day-Date Pre-owned With 1960s

With 1960s

In the early 1960s

these watches represented a significant departure from Rolex's traditional Oyster case designs

916 is the ref

and rarer yet are solid gold models

Rolex Day-Date Pre-owned With 1960sWhen the Day Date was introduced in 1956, Rolex had all but abandoned complicated wristwatches. The beautiful triple calendar moon phase watches that they had released in the 1950s, References 8171 and 6062 (the former of which, incidentally, fetched $1. 2 million at Christie's a few years ago), proved abject failures on the commercial market. But Rolex secured the patent for the Day Date on July 23, 1955, rushed production, and debuted the model at