The burly dive watch can withstand mind-boggling depths—but it looks great on dry land, too.
In four years, Rolex will no doubt be celebrating the centenary of the first fully waterproof watch: the Rolex Oyster, which debuted in 1926. A hermetically sealed case made it possible to get it wet without fear of ruining the thing. A year later, in 1927, it tested the watch on the wrist of swimmer Mercedes Gleitze as she plowed her way through the waves to safety across 22 miles of the English Channel. The watch survived equally without incident.
The name Deepsea Challenge has cropped up before; it was the watch used by director and celebrated marine explorer James Cameron in 2012 to dive the Mariana Trench. And it wasn’t worn but strapped to the operating arm outside his submersible vehicle. While it passed the pressure test with flying colours, that was a prototype rather than a production model. The new 50mm watch is the biggest Rolex has ever produced for public consumption.
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