Nicholas Foulkes

The book is a vivid and colourful account of the perennially popular Datejust – Rolex’s  inaugural waterproof, self-winding chronometer wristwatch, complete with a date  window at 3 o’clock. Foulkes chronicles the remarkable story behind the creation of what  Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf described, at its launch in 1945, as a timepiece that  encapsulates “every discovery made to date".