Orange hand
écrit par CYR le 24 janvier 2003 10:02:58:
Ningun ,hier ,nous a présenter sa "main orange" seulement son texte est un simple copié collé d'un site anglais :
"Rolex introduced the watch as an essential tool to all 'speleologists' (more commonly known as 'cave explorers' ) Rolex also claimed that the speleologist "soon loses all notion of time: morning, afternoon day or night." For these intrepid souls Rolex developed the watch that could tell them whether the "2" on the dial was 2:00 a.m. or 2:00 p.m. (14:00). This may well be true, but there are other things with a higher demand than speleologists. The limited popularity that it had was because of people in the aviation field, air traffic controllers, etc. In its life the watch for the first 3 years had an orange hand, and up until 1985 it had a red one. The 1655 Explorer II and the 1019 Milgauss are the only Rolex Models which use hands that are not used by any other model."
Les 3 ans de production m'étonne car on trouve des explo de 73 ,79 etc ,quelqu'un peut -il nous donner les dates de production exactes de ce modèle.
Perpetual Oyster Date "Explorer II" 1973 7'800 CHF
or, inox, Sotheby's - Genève - 14/11/2001
Réf. 1655. Automatique, secondes au centre, avec date et aiguille 24 heures. (worldtempus )
Rolex Oyster Perpetual Explorer II Orange Hands
Model No.: 1655 Circa 1979
A rare stainless steel automatic centre seconds wristwatch with 24-hour indication, date, nickel lever movement with hack seconds, free-sprung mono-metallic compensation balance, adjusted to 5 positions and temperature. Nice and clean Rolex Explorer II Orange Hands, with original vintage dial and hands.
Waterproof to 330ft/100m, and comes with its original steel bracelet ref 78360.This model for some reason was never popular when released in the late 1960's, but now the watch has reached cult status with Rolex enthusiasts. Its is one watch where the dial is truely different to any other Rolex Sports watch.
(Bjs online )
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