Rolex Precision 8029

Model:
Year of issue: 1953
Reference number: 8029
Condition: mint
Status: sold
Dealer country: United States
Dealer name: Alessandro Ciani
Price in US $ n/a

Description

Rolex Precision 8029

Dealer

Alessandro Ciani

THE QUEST FOR CHRONOMETRIC PRECISION 1910

Rolex first concentrated on the quality of the movements. The relentless quest for chronometric precision rapidly led to success. In 1910, a Rolex watch was the first wristwatch in the world to receive the Swiss Certificate of Chronometric Precision, granted by the Official Watch Rating Centre in Bienne. Four years later, in 1914, Kew Observatory in Great Britain awarded a Rolex wristwatch a class “A” precision certificate, a distinction which until that point in time had been reserved exclusively for marine chronometers. From that date forward, the Rolex wristwatch was synonymous with precision.