Hands-On With Three Of The Absolute Rarest Vintage Rolex Chronographs, Ever: The 4113 Split-Seconds, The Hermes Paul Newman, And The Zerographe
Basel World 2013 begins later this week. Will and I are already on the #roadtobasel, and both Stephen and Blake are packing their bags as we speak. What the arrival of Basel means is just an overwhelming amount of new releases coming your way. It's like Christmas for watch lovers. But, it also means you won't be hearing about the odd and interesting old watch, something that we love so much. So, before we go hard for a full week of the latest and greatest, here is a chance to see three amazing old watches - arguably three of the rarest vintage Rolex chronographs you will ever see. Read on for a detailed look at Rolex reference 4113 - massive, hyper rare chronograph built in the 1940s and the only split-seconds chronograph Rolex ever made (also the only Rolex to ever break $1 million at auction), the only known example of a Paul Newman Daytona retailed (and signed!) by Hermes, and a strange, but massively important Mono-pusher called the Zerographe, that was actually Rolex's first in-house chrono, and the first Rolex with a rotating bezel. No, we are not kidding around in this one, folks.