36MM Stainless Oyster Perpetual...Multicolored Laquer Dial with Jubilee Motif

WATCHES AND WONDERS

...36MM Stainless Oyster Perpetual...

 

MULTICOLOR 

Laquer Dial 

Avante-Garde Jubilee Motif

"The WARHOL OP"

Andy Warhol looks a scream

Wear him on my wrist

Andy Warhol, Silver OP

Can't tell them apart at all

The all new 36MM Multicolored Laquer Dial "Jubilee Motif" dial Oyster Perpetual is getting a lot of attention based upon its striking PoP Art dial, and I am going to go out on a limb my nicknaming it "The Warhol". Just like, The Pepsi GMT, The Coke GMT, The Batman GMT, The RootBeer GMT, The Kermit Submariner, The Hulk Submariner, etc.—you get the idea.

Rolex said their inspiration for the lacquered dial was the from "the Jubilee motif introduced at the end of the 1970s, which has since become iconic". Rolex loves playing around with colors, and this reminds me of Rolex's Basel World 2018 introduction of the RAINBOW Daytona.

When I say this new Rolex model has Pop Art vibe, it totally reminds me of Andy Warhol's PoP Art. In the photo below we see Andy Warhol with his Protoge, Jean-Micel Basquiat, and we see Andy rocking his ladies 28MM yellow gold Datejust on a President Bracelet. 

Andy Warhol pictured above wearing his Rolex Datejust with Protégé, Jean-Michel Basquait

The color palette of the new Rolex dial totally reminds me of Jean-Michel Basquait's masterpiece which is pictured below

"Untitled," 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat Painting sold for $110.5 Million on May 18, 2017

The new dial also reminds me very much of the repetitive square grid of Andy Warhol's pop art, like with his famous Marilyn print grid layouts as pictured below.

Repetitive Grid alignment was a trademark of Andy Warhol, which is a fascinating way to layout artwork, as his original inspiration was that of comic books.

The all new 36MM Multicolored Laquer Dial "Jubilee Motif" dial Oyster Perpetual is getting a lot of attention based upon its striking PoP Art dial. Rolex said their inspiration for the lacquered dial was the from "the Jubilee motif introduced at the end of the 1970s, which has since become iconic".

Rolex Jubilee Guilloché Dial Inspiration
As mentioned, the all new Multicolored Rolex Lacquer Dial with the Jubilee Motif was inspired by Rolex's original Jubilee Motif dials which incorporated a Guilloché engraving design.

Rolex began making the original Rolex Jubilee dials back in the late 1970s and in 1985 to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Datejust, by engraving solid gold disk dials with the "ROLEX" logo monogram. 
When Rolex invited me to be part of a group of the first journalists to tour all four Rolex factories in Switzerland, eleven years ago, back in 2013, Rolex explained to us that there was NOT a computerized CNC method that could achieve the same magic process, which the Guilloché can.  

In the photo below we see the Rolex dial Guilloché process taking place. The way it works, is the Guilloché master engraving disk is located on the left side in the photo below, and it has the master pattern that is being engraved in miniature scale on the gold Rolex dial which we see located on the right side in the center of the engraving apparatus.

I will NEVER forget, that when the four of us (pictured below) were touring the Rolex factories in Switzerland, the Rolex Public Relations representatives told us not to touch the Guilloché machine, while it was running in front of us, as doing so would cause the machine to fail, and Arial Adams, from A Blog To Watch, reached out and touched the machine anyway, and messed up the engraving, which was so bizarre!?!! 
I mean somebody tells you specifically NOT to do something, and you do it anyway, which was like the Spiros Antonapoulous character in opening scene from the 1968 classic Alan Arkin movie: "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter", who walks by the local bakery and sees tasty deserts in the window, and to uncontrollably decide to break the glass to get to the desert since it looks so intriguing to him. Below is a picture of Ben Clymer, James Dowling, Ariel Adams and myself visiting the Rolex Wonka Works in Switzerland back in 2013.

Benjamin Clymer, James Dowling, Ariel Adams, and Jake Ehrlich November 19, 2013 Rolex Factory Tour in Switzerland (Hodinkee.com, Timezone.com, ABlogToWatch.com, and RolexMagazine.com)