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 ...

If the Rolex Submariner was the original sports watch, then the Explorer II was the original extreme sports watch. Introduced in 1971 as a timepiece for cave and polar exploration, this was a watch ...

The Rolex Explorer is often overshadowed by the Subs, the GMT’s, and certainly the Daytonas - those watches that always bring down good money at auctions and were worn by dictators, diplomats, and an ...

Stepping out of the Crown's shadow.

You can wear a piece of history with the new Rolex Explorer. This watch was originally developed to survive Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s climb to the top of Mt. Everest, and it has graced ...

Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire's column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world since March 2020. The unveiling of any new update by Rolex is always major ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Carol Besler writes about luxury watches and jewelry The Explorer is sized down a notch to 36mm from 39mm. But it’s really back to ...

Did we expect more? Progress at Rolex comes in either giant leaps or in barely perceptible steps – and usually the latter. And so it is this year. Today’s news from the giant of Swiss watchmaking, ...

Time for the return of two-tone. The new Rolesor (the Rolex name for the combination of the dual 18-karat yellow gold and Oystersteel alloys) Ref. 124273 may be heralding a return to the blend of ...