The Most Important Rolex Watch You've Never Heard of

Rolex is known for creating masterpieces, so it manufactures and sells only a few watches per year. It is a combination of water-resistant material, robust design, distinctive timing bezel, and automatic winding. Many Rolex watches have been rolled out in the market until now, like the Submariner, Explorer, Daytona but the Rolex watch you may never have heard of until now is the 'Rolex Zerographe.' It is the first watch from the reputed company Rolex to consist of an in-house chronograph. Read below to know more about how Rolex Zerographe is the rare one.

Rolex Zerographe reference was created in the year 1937 that was Rolex Zerographe 3346. This watch came into the market in varied variations, but its most famous model had a great look. This model had the California dial with half-Arabic and half-Roman numerals. It had a prominent steel bezel with a 60-minute scale with a modern design. This watch model was just 32mm wide, and people use to mistake it for the dive watch as it had the waterproof Rolex Oyster case. The Rolex Zerographe was so rare that this watch almost fetched over a million USD in an auction. The unique thing about this watch was it just had a single crown at 2 o'clock, and when it is pressed, the second's hand gets back to zero.

 

This watch started the first in-house Chronograph movement and the stopwatch function, so it is known as the predecessor or the progenitor of the two significant Rolex watches, namely Rolex Daytona, a chronograph series, and the Rolex Submariner that is the dive watch. The Zerographe model had a dial of a typical simple watch as compared to most Chronograph watches. This watch displays hours, minutes with the seconds hand sweeping around the dial. The exciting thing about this watch is if you want to look at the Chronograph, just depress the pusher at 2 o'clock, and the second hand will go down to zero as long as you will hold this pusher. At this moment, the users can time something between these 60 seconds.

 

Rolex produced less than a dozen Zerographe watches. It was just used as the prototype. But, further watch models were made under the name Centregraph. So, if you are looking forward to who sells Rolex watches near me over the internet, then Timeless Luxury is your one-stop-shop.