Air King 40mm

AIR-KING A HOMAGE TO AVIATION

Design

FOR NAVIGATIONALTIME READINGS

Air-King hour hands

The Air-King dial features a distinctive black dial with a combination of large 3. 6 and 9 numerals marking the hours and a prominent minute scale for navigational time readings. It bears the name Air-King in the same lettering that was designed specifically for the model in the 1950s.

Air-King beauty
The Air-King epitomizes Rolex’s privileged ties with the world of aviation during its golden age in the 1930s. It was a period when spectacular progress in aircraft performance constantly expanded humanity’s capacity to conquer the skies. and led to the introduction of long-distance flights.

Universe

PIONEERS OF
THE GOLDEN AGE
OF AVIATION

The first Air-King
1958
The first Air-King
The Air-King pays homage to the golden age of aviation during the 1930s. One of the pioneers of this era. English aviator Charles Douglas Barnard. set a number of flight records. Of the Oyster. he said: The peculiar qualities of this Rolex watch render it eminently suitable for flying purposes and I propose to use it on all my long-distance flights in the future.

Air-King Flying over Everest
1933
Flying over Everest
In 1933. Oyster watches accompanied the Houston Expedition as it made the first-ever flight over Mount Everest at an altitude exceeding 10.000 metres (33.000 feet) in extreme weather conditions.