Official Explorer Thread!

[newbie09]

Yahoooooo!!!

Just got myself today a 'V' series Explorer II white dial from THH

Congratz, enjoy ur new watch...

[Marlinz]

Yahoooooo!!!

Just got myself today a 'V' series Explorer II white dial from THH

[ejaan]

My ExpII saying hi.....





Thanks for viewing.....

Hi back to your EXP II. Congrats to you.

[akjazz]

My ExpII saying hi.....





Thanks for viewing.....

[DM101]

Wife finally agrees on my dream rolex...got myself a 'M' series Exp II white dial with chapter ring and 3186 movement.

woohoo.......

Buy watch need wife to agree 1 Hehehe Enjoy yr watch BRO. Some pics pls

[akjazz]

My first Rollie

Wife finally agrees on my dream rolex...got myself a 'M' series Exp II white dial with chapter ring and 3186 movement.

woohoo.......

[Watcha]

Congrats! My pair of Exp-IIs say hi ...

beautiful pair

now I got explorer itch

[ejaan]

aaah...another B/W pair collector. Nice.

Congrats! My pair of Exp-IIs say hi ...

[zidaneong]

Congrats! My pair of Exp-IIs say hi ...

looks great to me.

[lufu]

Maybe you want to check out Air King (model 114200, see below). Wanted that initially, but I prefer black.

Was thinking between this and Explorer I.
This Air King looks great. Was hoping to get 23% off retail for this Air King

[DM101]

Congrats! My pair of Exp-IIs say hi ...

Nice Pair Bro... but where's the baby ? (Explorer 1)

[psee]

Got my first ROLEX watch Explorer II on 09/09/09

Congrats! My pair of Exp-IIs say hi ...

[Oceanklassik]

Congratulations!

Hope to see some pics of it.

[nave]

Got my first ROLEX watch Explorer II on 09/09/09

[Taipan]

The Holy Grail of Explorer 2s...?

If I am not wrong, there's some background to this particular model. Somehow it is considered to be some error production by Rolex and it's extremely rare now thus very collectible.

...is the "error" edition 16550 with ivory dial and yellowing hour markers (with silver rings and not black rings) and aligned words of both lower sentences "Superlative Chronometer" and "Officially Certified". Mkt dropped to S$16.5 liao. But the confusion over this "investment" is over the 2 versions floating around : 1. with ivory dial and ivory markers, 2. with white dial and orange markers plus orange hands.

Reference is here : http://bjsonline.com/watches/articles/0016.shtml



Extract : If one enquires from The Rolex Watch Company about the so called "Cream/Ivory" dial Explorer II Ref 16550, the company will tell you that it does not exist. So if it does not exist then what is all the fuss about?

Well, unintentionally, it does exist. I say unintentionally because in reality the dial colour was supposed to be white, but due to some fault in the paint used by the Rolex watch Company, the dial left the factory as cream or Ivory colour. Thus the Cream/Ivory colour Explorer II was born. They were made in the mid 1980's, probably from 1984 to 1986, with either a 8 or 9 million serial number and only a small quantity of watches were actually sold. The reason for this was quite simple: they were not popular at all. This Model Reference also came in a black dial version and later on in a white dial version (1986-1988).

In recent years, Rolex Collectors have been chasing the price of this model, driving it higher and ever higher. As with most things in life, as the price and demand of an article rises, fraudsters move in to take advantage of the less knowledgeable and easy preys. Many White dialled Explorer II Ref 16550 have been "converted" to the rarer Cream/Ivory colour model simply by focusing a ray of hot light or even sun light for long periods on to the dial.

The pics shown by Christies the auctioneers looks weird :

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/Z...51585/D5158570