{"id":39076,"date":"2017-12-12T11:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T11:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=39076"},"modified":"2017-12-12T11:02:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T11:02:33","slug":"mechanical-watches-year-winner-rolex-oyster-perpetual-sky-dweller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/mechanical-watches-year-winner-rolex-oyster-perpetual-sky-dweller\/","title":{"rendered":"MECHANICAL WATCHES OF THE YEAR: Winner: Rolex Oyster Perpetual Sky-Dweller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WatchPro spoke to some of the UK\u2019s biggest retailers straight after Baselworld to ask them which watches impressed them most.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almost unanimously, they enthused about the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Sky-Dweller in white or yellow Rolesor, a patented alloy of steel and 18ct white or yellow gold.<\/p>\n<p>The yellow gold version looks best suited to a Middle or Far Eastern customer, but the white Rolesor edition, with its sunburst blue dial, is a British classic in the making. There are tweaks to previous precious metal Sky-Dwellers, including rectangular index hour markers and slightly longer hands, that will appeal to hardcore collectors.<\/p>\n<p>For Rolex retailers, it was the \u00a310,600 price tag that caught the eye \u2014 around three times cheaper than the usual circa \u00a330,000 cost.<\/p>\n<p>Rolex doesn\u2019t do dramatic change, so customers will be reassured by the familiar world traveller dual time zone dial that presents a second time on a rotating disc that sits below centre to give room to the red hour marker and Rolex logo at 12 o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n<p>The watch houses the calibre 9001 automatic movement, which Rolex describes as one of the most complex they have ever developed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WatchPro spoke to some of the UK\u2019s biggest retailers straight after Baselworld to ask them which watches impressed them most. Almost unanimously, they enthused about the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Sky-Dweller in white or yellow Rolesor, a patented alloy of steel and 18ct white or yellow gold. The yellow gold version looks best suited to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[2,7026,10129],"tags":[63,10171,139,47],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39076"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=39076"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=39076"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=39076"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=39076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}