{"id":16660,"date":"2025-09-13T21:50:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=16660"},"modified":"2025-09-13T21:50:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:50:48","slug":"how-a-2020-rolex-collection-changed-the-face-of-watch-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=16660","title":{"rendered":"How a 2020 Rolex Collection Changed the Face of Watch Design"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

As the company<\/span> that either invented or popularized the dive watch, the GMT watch, the first water-resistant watch, the first automatic watches, and much more besides, you could hardly downplay Rolex<\/a>\u2019s influence on watchmaking history. But while its iconic sports watches, like the Submariner<\/a>, Daytona and GMT-Master are endlessly imitated, Rolex is not seen as a trendsetter, preferring to ignore passing horological fashions. It does its own thing, iterating carefully and minimally on its age-old templates.<\/p>\n

Five years ago, however, Rolex introduced a collection so avant-garde that is still<\/em> influencing creative decisions across the entire watch industry, and it did so in one of its least-heralded models: the Oyster Perpetual<\/a>. The idea was so simple that we\u2019ve barely noticed it become the industry norm: Instead of slowly rolling out new dial colours one at a time over a period of years\u2014which was standard watch world behavior until that point\u2014Rolex launched a whole set of colored dials in a complementary palette all at once.<\/p>\n

\n