Editor’s note: The Rolex Air-King ref. 116900 is the brand’s entry into their world of professional watches, but it’s also a piece that stands out in the line-up, thanks to its unusual dial layout and colourful logo. We take another look at this now three-year-old watch, below. Rolex famously espouses a philosophy of evolution, not revolution – and its*product releases are so reliably incremental that you could, well, set your watch by them. Except when they’re not. Every so often, Rolex does something that breaks from its*evolutionary mantra. Witness the Sky-Dweller, the platinum Daytona and now, the latest generation of the Air-King. There’s so much new about this watch that the only real link to the Air-Kings of yore is the name, so it genuinely shocked people when it was unveiled*at Baselworld, and has polarised opinion since. But now that the watch has started arriving with*retailers and making its way onto wrists, even the most vocal*of naysayers are beginning to mellow. But is that really so astonishing*? This is Rolex, remember? The dial For a time-only Rolex, there’s a lot going on with this dial. To start, there’s the text, all five lines of it – two at the top…

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