The Rolex Sea-Dweller fake watch was announced in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the model. The Rolex Sea-Dweller model is one of Rolex’s most important, though arguably least commercial products – a true tool watch catering to true professionals. This latest incarnation is very much a Sea-Dweller, but there are many updates, including some that are technically minor but emotionally significant departures from models that came before. This week, I’ll examine those and try to unpack just what they mean. Besides, we’ll talk about what this cheap watch is meant to do, and what it’s not meant to do. 
In my detailed look at Rolex from 2015, I talk about founder Hans Wildorf’s pursuit of three different properties that would come to define Rolex replica watches: precision timekeeping, an automatic movement, and finally, resistance to water. Why was this so important to Wilsdorf? However, Wilsdorf believed there was an actual market for watches that could be worn during active sports by participants themselves. The early Oyster cases featured the first fluted bezels used by Rolex, so that watchmakers could screw them in tighter to the case middle. Of course, the screw-down Oyster crown was a significant part from the fake Rolex family that further allowed wearers of these watches to go deeper than ever before. 
In 1953, the Rolex and Blancpain both showed professional dive watches and the category that many of us love so much was born. While the Fifty Fathoms was discontinued decades ago before being reintroduced by the modern incarnation of Blancpain, the Submariner has remained a constant force in the watch world for over 60 years. When it was first shown, complete with its screw-down crown, luminous radium dial, and rotating bezel, one could expect water resistance up to an impressive 100 meters.
Before that though, Rolex produced what was arguably the new plus ultra of pre-1950s dive watches as well, they just didn’t have the Rolex name on the dial. Yes, some of the original Panerais – during this period created predominantly for Italian military divers – were made sophisticatedly by Rolex, and feature Rolex cases and movements. It should be noted not all of the early Panerai wristwatches used Rolex movements and cases, but several of the earliest did and they remain very collectible – one such example is the tropical dial piece owned by John Goldberger and seen in his episode of Talking Watches.
This “Rolex Submariner” wasn’t always intended to be the Submariner, and just as Rolex experimented with names for the Daytona and other now famous models, there was a time when the Rolex diver could have been called “Sub-Acqua.” A few early examples with this name have surfaced over the years such as this one at Antiquorum in 2013.
The Rolex kept on producing the Submariner in a host of variants without interruption, and as you all know, continues to produce it today. In the first couple of decades of consumer and professional dive watch production, there were surely other serious dive watches out there, but many of them though impressive technically were not greatly distributed, and few reached the level of commercial or professional success of the Sub.
The replica Rolex Sea-Dweller watch is the best expression of Rolex as a brand. From its very beginning, the model showed a preoccupation on Rolex’s part with extensive over-engineering, and performance above all else. Please keep this mind, the fake Rolex already had a more than capable dive watch in the 5512 and 5513 Submariners, and yet it wanted to build something even tougher – a watch meant for those who not only worked, but in some cases, actually lived underwater. 
The Rolex Sea-Dweller Replica Watch
