Thomas Shares Why The UK Perfect Replica Rolex Explorer 1016 Haunts His Dreams

My grail watch is not exciting. It is not impressive like Lex’s grail Patek 5270P. My grail is the most modest and unassuming sports watch in Swiss made fake Rolex’s (back) catalog. And, in my humble opinion, it is also the best watch ever designed.

My love affair with the Rolex Explorer
I am not into the cheap replica Rolex Explorer for its half-fabricated story about summiting Mount Everest. As much as I love watch a good story, this is really not one of them in my eyes. My love affair with the top copy Rolex Explorer is purely based on the physical product, perhaps augmented by what it represents. Let me elaborate.

For starters, the 36mm Oyster case and Oyster bracelet are the best case and bracelet designs ever drawn. Please do not feel offended if you disagree; this is a completely private opinion. In my eyes, almost everything else looks like an effort to not look like the Oyster case and bracelet. I have not seen a more simplistically functional and beautiful case and bracelet design since. And goodness gracious, there have been quite a few!

Conceptually, I love that the Explorer is free of the stigma that some other luxury Rolex fake watches carry. When you spot a Rolex, it is either on the wrist of a watch aficionado or a showboat. Not the top copy Rolex Explorer. Its owner is either an aficionado or an adventurer. You do not wear an Explorer to flaunt it. And that, I think, only serves to make it cooler. It is anti-bling.

The Rolex Explorer 1016
I love almost all high end replica Rolex Explorers, but my grail watch is the Explorer 1016. It is the archetypal vintage Explorer reference. It was in production for a whopping 29 years, starting in 1960. If you are only familiar with modern Rolex, you will still have no trouble identifying this as an Explorer. Like almost all of the brand’s models, the design has undergone slow evolution rather than radical change. I believe this is part of Swiss copy Rolex’s long-term success and why many of the brand’s watches became iconic. Slow and steady is the way to go.

The dial is what differentiates the Explorer from similar Rolex Oyster Perpetuals fake for sale. The signature 3-6-9 dial is adorned with slender, simple Arabic numerals. A minute track, stick markers, and a triangle at 12 o’clock complete the basic layout. Around the center of the dial, we find the brand logo, model designation, and chronometer spec. The hands are the typical “Mercedes” style. The lume is radium for the first three years and tritium from 1963 onwards.

The 1016 is powered by caliber 1560, and later 1570 with an upped beat rate. These calibers remain quite easy to service and source parts for today if you have a proper Swiss fake Rolex-specialized watchmaker. Technically, you can wear an Explorer 1016 on a daily basis, free of worry.

Gilt dial 101
The Swiss movement fake Explorer 1016 was produced with a host of dial variations. They can be roughly divided into two main categories — gilt dials (up until ca. 1967) and matte dials (1967–1989). My personal favorite by far is the gilt-dial variant. Just in case, here is an ultra-short refresher course on gilt dials.

Today, dials are often referred to as “gilt” if they feature any sort of gold-tone printing. True gilt dials, however, are made through a unique (and costly) process. First, the dial printing is applied to an (often) brass blank dial in clear lacquer. Next, the dial is galvanized with a black paint. Since the paint is applied through an electrical current, it sticks only to the conductive exposed metal, not the clear-lacquered dial features.

The result is a black dial with shimmering gold-tone (or, more accurately, brass) features that lay ever-so-slightly deeper than the black surrounds. Paired with aged radium or tritium, you get a warmth that is simply stunning. Well-aged gilt dials are truly some of the prettiest dials ever made if you ask me. The metal blank can be made of other materials than brass, sometimes resulting in silver-colored dial features.

Important UK Perfect Rolex Daytona Replica Watches For Invest

The Hand-Wound Era
The luxury fake Rolex Daytona was originally a mechanical chronograph—powered by the Valjoux cal. 72 or a variant thereof, it needed to be wound each day. This era lasted from 1963 until 1987—in 1988, Swiss copy Rolex unveiled the first automatic model.

Ref. 6239
The OG Daytona launched in 1963, with the UK luxury replica Rolex Daytona ref. 6239, which was the very first “official” Daytona model. Housed in a (roughly) 37 mm steel or gold case, it featured “Rolex Comosgraph” on the black or white dial under the 12 o’clock logo and was powered, like the ref. 6238 “pre-Daytona,” by the hand-wound Valjoux 72 movement (later customized by Swiss made fake Rolex and renamed or the Cal. 722). It also featured, like that model, unthreaded pump pushers, meaning water resistance was limited. Now here’s the kicker: The top super clone Rolex ref. 6239 in its pre-1965 styling did not feature “Daytona” on the dial at all; later versions did, either above the 6 o’clock subdial or beneath the “Rolex Cosmograph” marking at 12 o’clock. Also, note the stick hands and markers and the lack of a contrasting background against the outer minute and ⅕th-second track, as well as the bezel inscribed with a tachymeter scale (a first for copy Rolex online).
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The birth of the “Paul Newman” 1:1 fake Rolex Daytona UK also coincides with that of the ref. 6239. (A “Newman” can be one of several Daytona references, as it’s indicative of a particular dial type, not a case type.) Called “exotic dials” by AAA quality replica Rolex, these special dials were made by Singer and featured red “Daytona” text (though not on the earliest iterations) and Art Deco-esque Arabic indices on the sub-registers with dot markers. (It’s said that roughly one in 20 hand-wound Daytonas featured an exotic dial.) They also featured a contrasting seconds track with red markings on the outer edge of the dial. Available in steel or gold cases, these high quality replica watches originally didn’t sell well and languished on shelves.

Paul Newman was known to have worn one of these exotic-dialed super clone watches online, which was given to him by his wife Joan Woodward. At some point in the 1980s, Italian collectors began associating the exotic dials with the famed American actor, giving rise to the term “Paul Newman dial.” Of course, when Newman’s own “Newman” came up for sale in 2017, its nearly $18M hammer price was due in no small part to the fact that this was the very watch that gave rise to an industry-wide obsession.

High Quality Rolex Daytona Replica Watches For Sale

The luxury fake Rolex Daytona UK was first introduced in 1963 as a chronograph for racing drivers and their crew. The rotating bezel is engraved with a tachymetric scale allowing the wearer to average speeds of up to 400 miles (or kilometres) per hour.

AAA quality replica Rolex have released 3 major iterations of the Daytona, the first from 1963 till the late ’80s had a manual wind movement and was a favourite of racing driver (and actor) Paul Newman, who is said to have worn it every day for decades after receiving it as a gift from his wife. The second series was made from ’88 till 2000, and the third series has been made from 2000 to the current day.

The perfect replica Rolex Daytona shown here has the new monobloc Cerachrom bezel – it’s corrosion resistant, scratchproof, and unaffected by UV radiation. It also has a thin layer of platinum in the numerals to make sure they’re clearly legible even when doing 160 mph through Eau Rouge, and the face is scratch-proof crystal. The automatic movement is the caliber 4130, an in-house Rolex movement that is a certified Superlative Chronometer, and each Swiss movement fake Rolex UK ships with a 5 year warranty.