Thursday, June 29, 2006

Rolex Daytona Mechanism Laid Bare



Intrigued by a recent thread on ROLEX and the DAYTONA and not knowing a lot about the innovative chronograph layout employed in the 4130, (yes I live a life with ROLEX filters firmly on) I have been digging around in the European Patent website. For those interested in the full explanation I suggest viewing the European B1 document EP 0772 104 B1 or the US 5793708 available with simple navigation from here:

Note that EP.ESPACENET.COM has finally bowed to pressure and now allows download of complete pdfs (click on 'save full document' in the toolbar). Hooray.

2 comments:

Speedmaster said...

Did you see this?
WT_2001_05: COMPARATIVE TEST: ROLEX COSMOGRAPH DAYTONA OLD VERSUS NEW
http://www.watchtime.com/archive/wt_2001_05/WT_2001_05_042.pdf

Velociphile said...

Yes Chris, thanks. It's a good overview but not as detailed as the patents.