Rolex Watches and Metallica: Heavy Metal Illustrated With Luxury Watches To Match

What brands make the best men's watches? How about the best luxury watches for heavy metal? Tonight, Tim Mosso unites luxury watches with metal for a feast of hard rock and high horology. If you've ever wondered what Metallica, Judas Priest, Lemmy, or Mark Tornillo might wear on stage, this episode of "Watches Tonight" is for you! Rolex is Metallica. Or, to be specific, Rolex is "Metallica," the 1991 self-titled album that marked the band's greatest mainstream success. Rolex watches, by virtue of their ubiquity and mainstream appeal, often become the target of distain by watch snobs obsessed with haute horlogerie and boutique brands. Models like the Rolex Submariner, Rolex Daytona, and Rolex GMT Master II enjoy huge mainstream demand and acclaim, and many purist watch collectors revile the Rolex brand for that reason. Likewise, Metallica's 16 time platinum eponymous album delivered the kind of mainstream radio play and sales to non-metal fans that other metal acts envied and purist fans decried. Songs like "Nothing Else Matters," "Enter Sandman," and "Sad But True" departed from the conventions of Thrash Metal to create a sound that kept metal alive in the 90s but also spurred a backlash from heavy metal diehards. Rolex often faces the same type of criticism for playing to mainstream tastes; the 44mm Rolex Deepsea, the two-tone Sea-Dweller steel and gold, and the arguably pandering Oyster Perpetual "Tiffany" turquoise gave rise to charges that Rolex was "selling out