Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Archived features a matte black dial

features a matte black dial with applied markers and contrasting white subsidiary registers and luminous red hands

which allowed the 24-hour hand to be adjusted independently of the others

Starting with the steel model

and has just received a top to bottom mechanical overhaul

The story of the watch's fabled designer intersects with a unique technological history

Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Archived features a matte black dialWhile the name Rolex Oyster Perpetual doesn't designate a particular model or line, it does signify a few things. First, that the watch will have the trademark Rolex Oyster case. Second, that the movement beating inside that Oyster case will be Rolex's famed Perpetual movement. Rolex first patented the Oyster case in 1925, but the quest for a waterproof and dust proof case began shortly before the First World War. The cases of the Great War and the