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>air king
picrel is a dress watch
>First released in 1945, the Rolex Air-King was part of a larger series of watches to honor the RAF pilots of the Battle of Britain. But long after the other models were phased out in the 1960’s – Air-Lion, Air-Giant, and Air-Tiger – the Air-King, beloved by pilots, lived on.
>It is small for a pilot’s watch of today’s standards. But when it was first released, that 34mm case was considered large (times change, go figure). What pilots, and collectors with style loved about the Air-King was that clean, simple face that was classical and easy to read on the fly. And even though it saw a myriad of dial changes throughout the years, the Rolex Air-King largely remained the same.

For decades, you could always count on those simple baton hands and smooth bezel