Rolex

Vintage Precision Oversize Ref.9022

€11,000 EUR

Rolex Precision référence 9022 en acier, cadran argenté et seconde centrale, 1955.

Les Rolex Precision des années 1950 ont quelque chose d’assez formidable : on peut passer des années à les répertorier et continuer à tomber sur une configuration que l’on n’avait encore jamais vraiment regardée.

Celle-ci en est un très bon exemple.

Datée de 1955, cette référence 9022 possède un boîtier en acier de 36 mm. Aujourd’hui, cela paraît parfaitement raisonnable. À l’époque, c’était presque de la provocation.

La plupart des montres habillées tournaient autour de dimensions nettement plus modestes, et ce diamètre généreux donne aujourd’hui à cette Precision une présence étonnamment contemporaine.

Le reste est d’une simplicité presque radicale : cadran argenté, index bâtons appliqués, aiguilles dauphine, seconde centrale et une lunette si fine qu’elle laisse pratiquement tout l’espace au cadran.

Pas de date. Pas de texte inutile. Pas de complication.

Et surtout, rien à enlever.

Son boîtier très fin et ses longues anses anguleuses lui donnent une silhouette particulièrement élégante au poignet, quelque part entre la montre habillée des années 1950 et une Rolex que l’on pourrait presque porter aujourd’hui sans expliquer qu’elle a plus de soixante-dix ans.

Et puis il y a son bracelet extensible en acier.

Un détail délicieusement vintage qui rappelle qu’avant les bracelets intégrés, les micro-ajustements et les fermoirs à rallonge sophistiqués, on avait déjà trouvé une solution assez efficace :

on tirait dessus.

Une Rolex simple, grande pour son époque et remarquablement moderne dans ses proportions.

Comme quoi, parfois, être en avance consiste simplement à faire 36 mm en 1955.

 

Rolex Precision reference 9022 in stainless steel, with silvered dial and centre seconds, 1955.

There is something rather wonderful about Rolex Precision watches from the 1950s: you can spend years cataloguing them and still come across a configuration you have somehow never really noticed before.

This is a very good example.

Dating from 1955, reference 9022 features a 36 mm stainless-steel case. Today, that sounds perfectly reasonable. At the time, it was almost provocative.

Most dress watches of the period were considerably smaller, and that generous diameter gives this Precision a surprisingly contemporary presence today.

Everything else is almost radically simple: a silvered dial, applied baton hour markers, dauphine hands, centre seconds and a bezel so thin that the dial is given almost all the available space.

No date. No unnecessary text. No complication.

And, more importantly, nothing missing.

Its slim case and long angular lugs give the watch an especially elegant profile on the wrist, somewhere between a classic 1950s dress watch and something you could quite easily wear today without explaining that it is more than seventy years old.

And then there is the expanding steel bracelet.

A wonderfully vintage reminder that long before integrated bracelets, micro-adjustments and sophisticated extension systems, someone had already found a fairly effective solution:

you simply pulled it.

A simple Rolex, unusually large for its time and remarkably modern in proportion.

Proof that sometimes being ahead of your time simply means making a 36 mm watch in 1955.

 

Reference 9022
Year 1955
Movement Manual Winding
Diameter 36mm
Material Stainless steel
Strap Stainless steel expanding bracelet
Box & Papers No

 

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