Swiss Movement Replica Rolex Space-Dweller Sells For $190,500 UK

I hate those super-specific records like “most expensive yellow gold Patek chronograph sold in the Western Hemisphere on a Tuesday.” It feels kind of like advanced baseball analytics but for perfect replica watches and as much as I love debating WARs and ERA+ and ERA++, sometimes I just want to talk about how sweet Ken Griffey Jr.’s swing was.

Despite my disdain for super-specific superlatives, I’m giving the UK luxury fake Rolex 1016 a pass because I love it, I guess? Because I’m wearing one as I type this? Anyway, the Space-Dweller (ref. 1016) is one of those vintage Rolex super clone watches online with as much myth as the lost city of Atlantis. It’s a regular 1016 – usually an Explorer – just with that one familiar line of text swapped for something more mysterious. Supposedly, Swiss movement fake Rolex made a handful of Space-Dwellers in the ’60s for the Japanese market. It’s been said this was to celebrate the Mercury astronauts’ tour of Japan, but I’m not sure there’s any real evidence of this origin story.

Whatever the real story, a cheap fake Rolex Space-Dweller 1016 sold for $190,500 at Phillips, making it the most expensive 1016 ever. It passes the last Space-Dweller to appear at auction (~$136,000 in 2020) and the albino 1016 (CHF 101,600 in May 2023). Similar to those albino dials I wrote about, it’s an equally interesting and dangerous area of vintage best quality copy Rolex.

This 1:1 replica Rolex Space-Dweller reached this price simply because of that one line of text. We don’t know how many of these beautiful gilt dials exist – in fact, a few loose dials sold at auction 15 years ago – and we can’t even really tell if they were born in a specific case (though this example at Phillips had a serial matching the generally-accepted serial range for Space-Dwellers). Further, this example has high quality fake Rolex Japan service papers, but no model name noted, sadly. It’s another shred of evidence as to the potential origin of the Space-Dweller. I know the winner of the watch – an astute collector, might I add – and he promises he’ll let us know if the papers give any more clues as to the origin of the top super clone Rolex Space-Dweller. So stay tuned.

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Fake Rolex Sea-Dweller

As SCUBA matured beyond surface-level military and recreational uses, commercial, research, and exploratory techniques were developed for going deeper for longer. The Sea-Dweller was Swiss made fake Rolex‘s answer to the demands for watches capable of withstanding the pressure of these deeper dives. In 1967 upon its initial release, the Sea-Dweller was rated to a depth of 4,000 feet (1,220 meters). In 2007 a newer 1:1 replica Rolex Sea-Dweller was rated to 12,800 feet (3,900 meters), at the time a record-breaking figure.

The luxury replica Rolex Sea-Dweller is essentially a beefed-up Submariner, but that beefing up shouldn’t be taken lightly: Rolex had to entirely re-engineer the case, the crystal, the case back and more to get this kind of water resistance, so while the Sea-Dweller resembles the Submariner on the outside, the guts are a different animal. Waterproofness in nano-scale wristwatches has turned out to provide useful tech that can be ported over to small submarines, cameras, and other scientific tools that are plumbing the depths of our largely unexplored oceans. AAA quality fake Rolex often backs those scientific expeditions, linking the watch and the brand to the essence of professional SCUBA diving.

Replica Rolex Explorer
Contrary to popular belief, Sir Edmund Hillary was in fact not wearing a perfect fake Rolex Explorer when he conquered Everest in 1953. It was an Oyster Perpetual.

Nevertheless, the feat ushered in a new Oyster Perpetual model called the Explorer with a larger case size (36mm as opposed to 34mm or smaller), which high quality fake Rolex sold to a new wave of midcentury mountaineering enthusiasts. The Explorer went on to become an “entry-level” Rolex sport model, due only to price, and it remains in that position to this day.
Like all Rolex replica watches online, the top replica Rolex Explorer has gone through many permutations, including more modern iterations like the 14270 (1989-2001), now popular among vintage collectors because its tritium luminescence has finally turned beige.

As of 2023, the watch is the biggest it’s ever been, measuring 40mm in diameter and bringing it even closer to next watch on our list, the Explorer II. If you prefer to keep things historically accurate, however, a 36mm version of the Swiss super clone Rolex Explorer, reintroduced in 2021, is also available.