Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date 'Tropical' ladies and robust as all get

and robust as all get out

Dials from this era of Rolex often take on a fine stippling

Never before has a "mausoleum of all hope and desire" been so stunning

so we probably keep more watches than we should and aren’t terribly effective at making this venture really profitable or anything…but we do get to play with truly awesome timepieces every day and chat about them with some really great people - and that right there makes the whole thing worthwhile

In the years following World War II

Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date 'Tropical' ladies and robust as all getWhen it comes to "budget" Rolex, there are few watches more attractive than an Oyster Perpetual and the Oyster Perpetuals of the 1960s and 1970s remain some of Rolex's best loved timepieces. As a non professional Rolex model, the Oyster Perpetual line is arguably overlooked by collectors today, despite being the most 'pure' successor to the original waterproof Oyster cased Rolexes from the last century. All it takes is a strap change to transform this