With its latest creations, Rolex brings a fresh new look to some of its most iconic models. Offering unique harmonies of materials, colours, and textures, the 2024 watches illustrate a desire to constantly reawaken watchmaking emotions. The new timepieces play with contrasts to achieve a harmonious balance of functionality and aesthetics, performance and preciousness, tradition and innovation
Perpetual 1908
In 2024, the Perpetual 1908 is decked in 950 platinum and graced with an ice blue dial featuring a guilloche rice-grain motif – a distinctive three-dimensional, repeating geometric pattern that extends across the surface of the dial, starting from the small seconds counter at 6 o’clock. The minute track is surrounded by a filet sauté with a crimped pattern, which is also guilloché. This exclusive dial bears the same Arabic numerals 3, 9 and 12, the same faceted hour markers and the same hands as that of the 18 ct gold versions. The watch presented is mounted on a brown alligator leather strap fitted with a Dualclasp, a double folding clasp. The 1908 is equipped with calibre 7140, a movement at the forefront of watchmaking technology that features bridges decorated with Rolex Côtes de Genève and a cut-out oscillating weight and carries the Superlative Chronometer certification. Calibre 7140 enables the 1908 to display the small seconds, as well as the hours and minutes.
Oyster Perpetual GMT-Master II
Rolex is introducing two new Oystersteel versions of the Oyster Perpetual GMT-Master II. Both feature a 24-hour graduated two-colour Cerachrom bezel insert in grey and black ceramic – introduced last year – whose graduation is clearly visible thanks to its platinum coating, applied via PVD (Physical Vapour Deposition). The first watch is fitted with an Oyster bracelet, while the second sports a Jubilee bracelet. The black lacquer dial bears the inscription ‘GMT-Master II’ in green, echoing the colour of the triangle-tipped 24-hour hand – an element that features strongly in the model’s design. The GMT-Master II is driven by calibre 3285, a movement at the forefront of watchmaking technology, enabling it to display the date and an additional time zone in 24-hour format, as well as the hours, minutes, and seconds. Like all Rolex watches, the Oyster Perpetual GMT-Master II carries the Superlative Chronometer certification.
Oyster Perpetual Day-Date
The Day-Date 40, in 18 ct Everose gold, introduces a slate ombré dial, which, coloured at the centre progresses to a deep black edge. The watch features faceted, deconstructed Roman numerals and faceted index hour markers in 18 ct pink gold. Fashioned from 18 ct white gold, another edition features a white mother-of-pearl dial, enhanced by ten baguette-cut diamonds set as hour markers. A new Day-Date 36 in 18 ct yellow gold reveals a white lacquer dial complemented by these now-emblematic hour markers. The Day-Date 36 in 18 ct Everose gold sports a blue-green dial adorned with ten baguette-cut diamonds, and a bezel set with 60 trapeze-cut diamonds – each gemstone adjusted and set by hand by a master gem-setter. Day-Date 40 and Day-Date 36 models are equipped with calibre 3255, enabling them to display the day and the date, as well as the hours, minutes, and seconds. Like all Rolex watches, the Oyster Perpetual Day-Date 40 and Oyster Perpetual Day-Date 36 carry the Superlative Chronometer certification.
