Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting important or little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Rolex Explorer. The Explorer ...
Rolex’s dedicated adventure watch, the Explorer, traces its origins back to mountain climbing in 1953. In 1971, however, another watch joined the collection with the name Explorer II and a quite ...
Esquire talks to experts and insiders across the horology world to find out the true origin story of an icon At 11.30am on 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary hacked his way through the final snow slope to ...