ans Wilsdorf had a dream: to elevate the art of precision wristwatches; and so he established Rolex. As the dream took shape, he dared to expand his imagination. The Rolex Oyster Perpetual Day-Date debuted in 1956, eclipsing the Datejust’s decade-long success—the idea was to perfect calendar watches to display the date and day, spelled out in full at 12 o’clock, making it a horological marvel at the time.
