Model family · Rolex
Oyster Perpetual
89 references128 variants1933–2000
Rolex’s self-winding Oyster without further complication (or with a plain date). Begins with the 1930s “Bubbleback”, the first mass-produced self-winding wristwatch in a waterproof case, and continues through the flat-backed Oyster Perpetuals and the Oyster Perpetual Date.
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All recorded years
19302000
89 references in production order. Overlapping bars show overlapping recorded dates.
19301948196519832000
Dates are those recorded in the catalog. Faint bars mark approximate dates; a dashed point marks a single known endpoint. Undated references remain visible. Chronological order does not establish a predecessor or successor relationship.