The watches below each function Rolex trademarks, as well as similar specifications, with three-hand automated winding and no day. They’re all under $7k, as well as are easier Rolex watches to acquire than their more renowned cousins.

• Rolex Oyster Perpetual 36 

The Oyster Perpetual is Rolex’s entry-level men’s view, but it supplies a true Rolex appearance, as well as stands for the brand name’s history in its purest type. Hearkening back to the first “waterproof” watch in 1926 with automatic winding included 1931, this is the basis of a lot of Rolex watches made given that. It comes in different dimensions, as well as for 2020 it obtained a new 41mm dial as well as a lot of intense shade options. The 36mm variation, nonetheless, is completely wearable for lots of wrists as well as in-line with modern trends, and it’s slightly more budget-friendly as well.

• Rolex Air-King

Most people will most likely consider the GMT Master II, as well as Sky-Dweller as Rolex’s aviation-themed watches prior to they remember the Air-King. With its black dial, as well as large Arabic characters, the Air-King stands out from the remainder of the Rolex with something of an army look, as well as traces its roots to 1945, though its modern design is younger and rather polarizing. The Air-King does not use the latest generation of automated motions, as the Oyster Perpetual above does; however, it represents plenty of worth as the entrance factor for the Rolex’s sports watches. As a less prominent model, the Air-King possibly claims more about the person that selects it than the extra popular Rolex watches.

• Rolex Explorer

For the same cost as the Air King, unless you’re springing for the new two-tone model, the Rolex Explorer supplies a more widely palatable as well as uncontroversial alternative. Not to be perplexed with the Explorer II, which has a 24-hour-marked bezel, as well as GMT hand, the plain-old Explorer is more basic yet a handsome and healthy sports watch. With three-hand time-telling, it’s recognizably Rolex and has the added benefit of its organization with Explorers, most notoriously, Sir Edmund Hillary, who wore a “pre-Explorer” to the summit of Mt. Everest in 1953. It includes a comparable automatic motion as the Air-King above and is a hair smaller sized at 39mm.