When I read the Rolex Sky-Dweller article published today at Hodinkee (http://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-rolex-sky-dweller-the-most-complicated-modern-rolex), it had me thinking about the origin of the name "Sky-Dweller" and what it would mean to an owner of the watch and who should own the watch. It's really simple when you think about it, but of course this is just my opinion....
The name Sky-Dweller simply means one who dwells in the sky, and since we can assume a bird will not be purchasing this watch anytime soon, then we are left with a human being who flies a lot. The first and easiest benefit of the Sky-Dweller for the ever-flying individual is the second time zone - it is incredibly helpful to have local time and home time (home time being in 24-hour format) when traveling around the world. The Sky-Dweller has an independently settable hour hand for local time which works without hacking the movement, so when the wearer arrives at his destination, while he has to unscrew the crown to adjust to local time, he does not have to reset the time.
The second benefit is the annual calendar, and what makes it a "Sky-Dweller" annual calendar is the way the month is displayed. The month is shown on an aperture outside each hour marker. Here's the deal - if you spend most of your year travelling, when wearing the Sky-Dweller, with a quick glance down at your watch, you can see how your year is progressing. When the aperture above the "1" tells you that it's January, and you're a man of leisure heading to Grand Cayman for the winter, you think about all the other trips you are going to take the rest of the year.
Alternatively, if you're a businessman, and the aperture below the "6" tells you that it's June, you may think about what kind of quarter your company is having and whether or not you are beating plan.
The point is, it is a way to monitor your year in the sky - it can help you plan your goals, or relish or attempt to forget a month gone by; it could even help you remember birthdays and anniversaries.
It's a wonderful way to monitor the passage of a year.
For more, please see Rolex.com.
Image courtesy of Rolex.com.
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