With a history as long as Fake Rolex , there are always going to be those moments that exist outside the norm.
The quartz crisis was, fortunately, a relatively brief interlude in the watchmaking industry—the worst of its effects taking place over little more than a decade. However, that was plenty long enough to annihilate around two-thirds of Switzerland’s traditional manufacturers, forcing hundreds into bankruptcy.
Pre Owned Mens Rolex Replica Two-Tone Oysterquartz Datejust Gold Champagne 17013
Rolex Replica » survived better than most, and arguably thrived, in their customary way; innovation.
Forced to engage with the new technology, they at first teamed up with 20 other companies to build a joint quartz movement to be used inside a variety of brand-specific watches, giving us the Beta-21.
But playing with others has never been something at which Rolex excel, and in 1972 they bolted the doors and got to work on a caliber of their own. After five years two new watches debuted, dubbed the Oysterquartz, loosely based around their conventional dress pieces, the Day-Date and Datejust.
Even though Rolex was participating very much out of sufferance, their quartz models, and the movements especially, remain amongst the most impressively over engineered examples ever made. They are way out in front of anything else they have created in terms of timekeeping accuracy, and their highly individual, archetypically seventies styling is one now very much in vogue.
True to their springs and gears equivalents, the quartz powered Day-Date models were released only in gold, while the Datejust watches were the more everyman option. These could be had in either all steel or one of two varieties of Rolesor, Rolex’s own name for their blend of steel and gold.
Both watch series’ ran from 1977, with production officially stopped in 2001, although certain references remained in the catalog until 2003. During that time only around 25,000 were made; a tiny number compared to the manufacture’s mechanical output.
That makes these pieces particularly rare and highly collectible, a fascinating slice of Rolex history that still manages to be perfectly affordable.
The ref. 17013 is perhaps the most popular of all the various Oysterquartz versions, and below we will take a look at it in a bit more detail.