what is the mean of oyster perpetual??

[cain]

hii bro, just a new rookie and want to get info... usually at rolex datejust or etc there is sentence oyster perpetual. what is that mean for their strap and we can't change with another strap? like president strap....
because sometime i see there is oyster but the they use jubile strap...
thnx for the one who can share me the information

[(DMB)]

Oyster = Water Resistant Rolex case
Perpetual = self winding

[RolexDivers]

Oyster has nothing to do with strap -- it has to do with the case and that the case is water tight like an oyster shell.

Perpetual means to run for ever. Ofcourse nothing in this universe can do that unless there is constant supply of energy into it. So perpetual means that as long as your hand is moving, the watch will keep running and winding itself.

Strap/bracelet is just that strap/bracelet. You can change bracelets to whatever may fit your fancy.

[ecsub44]

Originally Posted by RolexDivers

Oyster has nothing to do with strap...

Strap/bracelet is just that strap/bracelet. You can change bracelets to whatever may fit your fancy.

Incorrect. "Oyster" is also a style of bracelet.

[The GMT Master]

Hi Cain,

Oyster Perpetual means that the watch is waterproof (Oyster), and has an automatic movement (Perpetual). Oyster also refers to a bracelet style as well - the Oyster is the standard bracelet on most of the range, with only the Datejust, Day-Date and Day-Date II having other options. On the Datejust, you have the choice of both the Oyster and the Jubilee bracelet, whilst on the Day-Date, the President bracelet is the standard choice

Hope this helps!

Chris

[cain]

thanx for share the information bro.. you guys give me a good explanation

[SPACE-DWELLER]

Welcome to TRF!

Check out the official Rolex site...

• Oyster Perpetual
  
• Oyster Case + Birth of the waterproof watch

[zeuloa]

Originally Posted by The GMT Master

Hi Cain,

Oyster Perpetual means that the watch is waterproof (Oyster), and has an automatic movement (Perpetual). Oyster also refers to a bracelet style as well - the Oyster is the standard bracelet on most of the range, with only the Datejust, Day-Date and Day-Date II having other options. On the Datejust, you have the choice of both the Oyster and the Jubilee bracelet, whilst on the Day-Date, the President bracelet is the standard choice

Hope this helps!

Chris

To add to Chris' great response, you can also have an Oyster bracelet (with a hidden clasp) on the Day-Date.

[Aspirin]

Put a fresh oyster into the freezer where under the temperature -10.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by cain

hii bro, just a new rookie and want to get info... usually at rolex datejust or etc there is sentence oyster perpetual. what is that mean for their strap and we can't change with another strap? like president strap....
because sometime i see there is oyster but the they use jubile strap...
thnx for the one who can share me the information

Yes today perpetual its just Rolex speak for being automatic,but Perrelet invented the first self winding mechanism around 1770,later Breguet improved it and called his winding system perpetuelles.Now perhaps this is where Rolex got the idea to call there automatics Perpetual.But it was a guy called John Harwood from the Isle of Man UK,now he in 1923 took out a UK/World patent for the first truly automatic winding wrist watch.Now he went on with backing to produce many thousands of these watches,but mainly owing to the very hard industrial depression in the mid 1920s to 1930s in the UK he went broke.Now old Hans Wilsdorf of Rolex being a very clever but very shrewd man bought and took up this auto-winding patent for the Rolex Watch Company,and in the very early 1930s incorporated it into the oyster design case. And with the newly acquired waterproof screw down crown patent that he got from Perregaux and George Peret now they first took out a Swiss patent in 1925 for the twin lock crown system .And with the Oyster type case,screw down twinlock crown and the acquired patent auto wind mechanism the Rolex Oyster was born. But in those very early oyster days it only wound around 300 degrees .Now Rolex did improved the design by the help of Hans brother in-law,who made it more efficient by winding a full 360 degrees,and a power reserve then of around 36 hours.After the auto watch and the oyster case later the oyster type bracelet, Rolex really took off the rest is just pure marketing genius by Hans.

[mrbill2mrbill2]

" Hans Wilsdorf, Rolex’s founder called the watch case an oyster. The term came to Wilsdorf while at a dinner party while trying to pry open an oyster."

[Kiwinz]

Perpetual=, is also "Lasting forever" or " Continually repeated"

Rolex also used " Perpetually " as a form of word in Advertisement when they gave out Perfume Bottles as a promotional item to the Ladies after the Basel Release of the Ladies President.

[mmmk604]

There's 3 main styles of bracelets available:
-jubilee
-oyster
-president

Also there are leather straps and specialty bracelets.