Unexpected Watch Complications from Rolex, Tudor & More | Bob's Watch Talk Ep. 7

In this week’s episode of Watch Talk, we examine watches with underrated complications from the most iconic brands on the market. Shop the collection: https://www.bobswatches.com/luxury-watches/ Rolex, Tudor, Omega, Panerai, and Breguet are luxury watch icons with centuries of innovation under their belts combined. There is certainly no shortage of remarkable movements to choose from. Let’s take a closer look at five from our New Arrivals section in this week’s installation of Watch Talk. Rolex Cosmograph Daytona 116518 The Rolex Daytona as we know it today began to take shape in the 1950s, with the name “Daytona” appearing on the dial in the 1960s. Its release came during a time when chronographs were overshadowed by three-handed dress watches, making it somewhat of an underrated watch at the time. Chronograph movements serve as a stopwatch of sorts that the wearer can start, stop, and reset by pressing the side pushers above and below the screw-down crown. Early editions featured a manual-wound movement until Rolex switched to the self-winding “El Primero” movement produced by Zenith in the late 1980s. The cal. 4030 was then modified in-house to slow its frequency from 36,000 to 28,800 bph and remove the date mechanism. It remained a fixture of the 5-digit series until 2000, when Rolex replaced it with the cal. 4130 developed and produced entirely in-house via ref. 116520. Reference 116518 is powered by the famed cal. 4130. As a contemporary Daytona, it also fea