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An automatic 1975 Rolex President Day-Date with a Spanish calendar wheel, comes with the original 18K yellow gold tree-bark textured hollow link bracelet with a fold over clasp, acrylic crystal, champagne pie pan dial, and engine-turned bezel. Watch comes with additional links, extra acrylic crystal, original box, and papers.
Case Width: 36mm; Weight: 73.6 Gross dwt.
Provenance
Private collection, Rockville, Virginia.
Estimated at $15,000 - $20,000
An automatic 1975 Rolex President Day-Date with a Spanish calendar wheel, comes with the original 18K yellow gold tree-bark textured hollow link bracelet with a fold over clasp, acrylic crystal, champagne pie pan dial, and engine-turned bezel. Watch comes with additional links, extra acrylic crystal, original box, and papers.
Provenance
Private collection, Rockville, Virginia.
At just 24 years of age, Hans Wildorf founded a timepiece company in London. At this time, wristwatches were both inprecise and relatively new to the market, but Wildorf had a vision of making them both reliable and stylish.
The name Rolex came to Wildorf while he was riding on the top of one of London's notorious double-decker buses. He said "a genie whispered Rolex in my ear", easily pronouncible in any language, and completely unique.
After World War One, Wilsdorf and his associate Alfred Davis moved the business to Geneva, Switzerland due to its more favorable tax rates. Their legacy as one of the leading Swiss watchmakers has persisted since then.
Following Wilsdorf's death in 1960, the company's ownership was passed to the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation. One of the foundation's works is as a private trust, which donates a percentage of the shares to various charitable causes.