Show us your Explorer

Polar on Rubber B strap and OEM deployant clasp.

Gone but never forgotten..

Hope you like my small collection of Explorers

Rolex 6610 gilt dial


Rolex 1016 gilt dial


Rolex Explorer gilt dials ref 1016 & earlier 6610


Rolex 1016


Rolex 5500 gilt dial


Rolex 16550 Explorer 2


Rolex Canadian Explorer with Date

Rolex Canadian Explorer without date


Rolex Canadian Explorer without date


Not exactly Explorer… Tudor Ranger

Rolex Explorer 2 16570 with 6610


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Truly amazing collection -- thanks for sharing.

Those Canadian Explorers are great. Haven't seen those before.

I'm a one-Explorer fella, but I love mine. Making up the core of a slimmed-down collection with the FOIS and a few other friends.

If your first rolex is a 114270 you are an aficionado.

On the other hand, if your first rolex is a 214270 you must learn more about rolex.

Polar on Rubber B strap & OEM deployant clasp.

Polar Explorer II on oyster bracelet on a crisp autumn morning.

Prefer this over the current 40mm.

Still going strong after last lake dip of the year, fixing some dock pilings (not deep, but plenty cold).

personal daily and fav!

That’s a beautiful 1016! My dream watch. I wish I’ll have one like yours someday.

this STAIB mesh is so gorgeous and comfortable !

Behold the Mutant. 16570x1655 mod.

60 years ago, Ian Fleming
December 17, 1963, London Heathrow airport, British author of the James Bond novels Ian Fleming (1908-1964) checking out an early copie of his latest book “On Her Majesty Secret Service”.
Fleming was on his way to “Golden Eye” , his winter retreat bungalow in Oracabessa at the North coast of Jamaica.
Unfortunately, it proved to be the last winter vacation enjoying the Caribbean Sea but a stay during which Fleming meet American ornithologist James Bond (1900-1989) author of “Birds of the West Indies”. Fleming was a keen bird watches and owned a 1947 copie of the book, using the author’s Anglo-Saxon name for the hero of his successful spy novels.
Fleming offered the ornithologist a copie of “You Only Live Twice”, writing on cover page "To the real James Bond from the thief of his identity. Ian Fleming, Feb 5, 1964 (a great day)."
1963 had been a busy year for Fleming, as the novels became movies he had visited the “From Russia With Love” film set in Istanbul and enjoyed the premiere of this 2nd Bond movie in October 1963.
Back in England by spring 1964, Fleming spent his last days enjoying golf & the country side in Kent.
Note Fleming wore his Rolex Explorer 1016 wrist watch on a 7206 steel bracelet. The Rolex Explorer was the watch Fleming described in the James Bond novels and after his death, the watch resurfaced in 1981. During the “Fleming 100th anniversary” exhibition, this Rolex Explorer 1016, case number 596851 was on display at the Imperial War Museum from May 2008 to March 2009.
(Photos: AP)
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