Given the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Explorer and Explorer II’s stature today as luxury accompaniments that flex style and versatility in swanky urban environs, it helps to remember that the watches’ origin was forged of sterner tests.
The result of decades-long field tests, whereby Rolex equipped mountaineers with timepieces on their expeditions to the Himalayan mountains since the 1930s, the first of the duo to be born, the Explorer, was conceived in extreme conditions. In fact, the watch was famously introduced after one of the
