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Every model name released under the "Oyster" brand
During the 1930's-40's, when Rolex still had an agreement with Gruen not to sell Aegler-based watches in North America, the Rolex Watch Company was doing some interesting branding experimentation in Canada. All the watches sold in Canada during this time had a "Rolex Caliber 59" movement, which is actually just a finished Fontainemelon FHF30 movement.
The watches were almost all 30-32mm, and despite there only being a handful of references (3478 and 3121f were the most common, along with 3136, 3351f, etc.) there were countless names used. Brands used included Rolex, Tudor, Neptune, Aqua/Solar Aqua/Lund & Blockley Aqua, and Oyster. This post is about the models released under the Oyster brand. Note that the model names don't exactly correlate to a reference; they seemingly put whatever dials into whatever cases they felt like. The 21 brand names I came across are: Marconi, Rolco, Unicorn, Essex, Explorer, Lincoln, Edison, Grenfell, Centregraph, Lipton, Lady Dudley, Junior Sport, Raleigh, Commander, Recorda, Chester, Regent, Shipmate, Pioneer, Extra Prima, and simply Oyster. Princeton Oyster and Oyster Birks etc. I believe are co-signed by retailers; those aren't model names. "Extra prima" is also arguably not a model name and is akin to, say, "Super Precision" branding but I'll count it. ![]() ![]() Anyway, click here for the imgur album or scroll for pics of all these models: Plain Oyster: ![]() Oyster Extra Prima: ![]() Oyster Marconi: ![]() Oyster Rolco: ![]() Oyster Unicorn: ![]() Oyster Explorer: ![]() Oyster Essex: ![]() Oyster Lady Dudley: ![]() Oyster Pioneer: ![]() Oyster Shipmate: ![]() Oyster Regent: ![]() Oyster Chester: ![]() Oyster Recorda: ![]() Oyster Commander: ![]() Oyster Raleigh: ![]() Oyster Junior Sport: ![]() Oyster Lipton: ![]() Oyster Centregraph: ![]() Oyster Grenfell: ![]() Oyster Edison: ![]() Oyster Lincoln: ![]() If I've overlooked any Oyster watches please let me know. ![]() |
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