Rolex Submariner Date 116618 LB

The Rolex Submariner Date 116618 LB began production in 2009, continuing a long and distinguished line of luxury watch ancestry. Arguably Rolex's most famous and desired model, the Submariner has been making style statements underwater and in the boardroom since 1953.
The Rolex Submariner Date 116618 LB wears its lineage right on the dial, proudly continuing the tradition of these legendary dive watches. The 'Mercedes' hour hand, the dauphine minute hand, and the seconds hand with the lumed pip are all present.
This Sub is powered by Rolex's self-winding calibre 3135. Developed and produced completely in-house, calibre 3135 is COSC certified , beats at 28,800 vibrations per hour, and has a 48-hour power reserve. It has central hours, minutes, and seconds, an instant date, and stop-seconds. The perpetual rotor harvests energy when the watch is moved in either direction, and Rolex's blue Parachrom hairspring keeps the movement protected from shock and magnetic fields.
The case is in yellow gold, and has a diameter of 40 mm. The crystal is sapphire glass. The dial and bezel are blue (the bezel in blue Cerachrom), and the hour indices are spot markers, with baguettes at 6 and 9 o'clock and a large, easily-identifiable inverted triangle at 12 o'clock. The big date window is at 3 o'clock.
The yellow gold Oyster bracelet is secured by Rolex's own 'Oysterlock' safety clasp, which is also fitted with a 'Glidelock' system that allows divers to extend the bracelet by up to 20 mm—in order to fit over the thick wetsuits and dry suits required to dive at the limits of the watch's performance.
The Rolex Submariner Date 116618 LB is spectacularly legible in extreme low-light situations. Hour markers, hands, and the pip on the bezel are all treated with generous amounts of Chromalight lume, which lasts up to twice as long as standard lumes and glows uniformly throughout its 8-hour period of effectiveness. Rolex's proprietary blue lume performs exceptionally at depth: which is just as well, as the Submariner Date is waterproof down to a hefty 300 m.
This is a dive watch, and it always has been. Everything about the Rolex Submariner Date 116618 LB is geared towards the experience of what Rolex calls 'diving in comfort mode'. The lumed pip at the zero marker of the bezel ensures divers make no timing errors at critical depths. Even the knurling at the edge of the bezel has been painstakingly designed: it's slightly canted, to allow precise use even when wearing diving gloves and working in the slow environment that is deep water.
While the Rolex Submariner first went beneath the waves in 1953 , divers wouldn't see a date version until the end of the 1960s. By this time, the luxury watch was already a diving legend, and had become a serious fashion item too. Many famous wrists have been adorned with a Sub—perhaps most notoriously the right wrist of Steve McQueen, who owned at least two stainless steel models. But 'the Cooler King' wasn't the only one. James Bond wore a Submariner in Dr No. Fidel Castro had one. Hilary Duff wears one, and Jake Gyllenhaal—the list goes on.
Submariners aren't just famed for their appearance on celebrated wrists, either. A respectable number of military and special forces have issued Submariners to their personnel, including the British Navy, which gave 'Milsubs' – military-specced Submariners – to their divers throughout the 1980s.
One of the most recognisable and popular luxury watches in the world, Rolex's classy dive model is a true icon.
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