Rolex Oyster Date
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The Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date (often shortened to "Oyster Date") launched with reference 6094 around 1953, positioned as the entry point beneath the Datejust: smaller at 34 mm against the Datejust's 36 mm, steel-only rather than offered in precious metal, and, atypically for an automatic-focused manufacture, produced across manually wound as well as self-winding generations. Its defining feature is the cyclops lens magnifying the date at three o'clock, a Rolex patent shared with the Datejust. The line ran through the 15xx reference family in the 1960s, on Calibre 1565 and later the higher-beat 1575, and stayed in the catalog into the late 1980s. (Bob's Watches) Deployant identifies a vintage stainless Oyster Date as the watch glimpsed in a "Keepsake" box belonging to Matt Damon's Paul Safranek in Downsizing (2017), visible only well enough to confirm the crown position and cyclops date window; no reference or production year is resolved. (Deployant)
Appearances
| Title | Year | Type | Actor | Character |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downsizing (2017) | 2017 | Film | Matt Damon | Paul Safranek |