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==Production outline== | ==Production outline== | ||
No Rolex production figure has surfaced for the 1018, and no catalogue page has been published that fixes its introduction date. The reference is documented from at least 1960, with marketing material carrying it as late as 1988, | No Rolex production figure has surfaced for the 1018, and no catalogue page has been published that fixes its introduction date. The reference is documented from at least 1960, with marketing material carrying it as late as 1988, so the 1018 may have remained in the catalogue longer than the dated auction record suggests. Catalogued examples cluster far more tightly than that: almost every dated lot falls between 1961 and 1970. | ||
Case numbers give the clearest sequence available. Antiquorum catalogued a 1018 with case number 675731 made in 1961, and a second with case number 1270063 made in 1965. Bonhams catalogued case number 1170967 as circa 1965 and case number 1293915 with an inner caseback dated IV.66. Antiquorum's Mondani Collection lot carried case number 1591267 made in 1967, and a further example with case number 1739989 dates to 1968. Later examples run into the 250xxxx band with casebacks stamped II.69. Dated serials in the collector literature extend the same picture: roughly 1.00M and 1.02M in 1964, 1.27M and 1.45M around 1966, and 2.09M and 2.12M around 1969. | Case numbers give the clearest sequence available. Antiquorum catalogued a 1018 with case number 675731 made in 1961, and a second with case number 1270063 made in 1965. Bonhams catalogued case number 1170967 as circa 1965 and case number 1293915 with an inner caseback dated IV.66. Antiquorum's Mondani Collection lot carried case number 1591267 made in 1967, and a further example with case number 1739989 dates to 1968. Later examples run into the 250xxxx band with casebacks stamped II.69. Dated serials in the collector literature extend the same picture: roughly 1.00M and 1.02M in 1964, 1.27M and 1.45M around 1966, and 2.09M and 2.12M around 1969. | ||
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==Movement notes== | ==Movement notes== | ||
Caliber 1560 ran from 1959 to 1965 across the whole no-date group, the 1018 and the Explorer 1016 included. It is a 25- or 26-jewel automatic beating at 18,000 vph, rhodium-plated, adjusted to temperature and five positions, with a free-sprung balance regulated by Microstella screws and a self-compensating Breguet balance spring. | Caliber 1560 ran from 1959 to 1965 across the whole no-date group, the 1018 and the Explorer 1016 included. It is a 25- or 26-jewel automatic beating at 18,000 vph, rhodium-plated, adjusted to temperature and five positions, with a free-sprung balance regulated by Microstella screws and a self-compensating Breguet balance spring. On chronometer examples, the dial carries the “Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified” text. | ||
Caliber 1570 appears in later 1018 examples and runs at 19,800 vph with an approximately 48-hour reserve. Hacking was introduced within the 1500 family during the 1970s, but the exact production and service boundary should be checked on the movement. There is no date complication. See [[Reference:Movements|Movements]] for the family lineage. | Caliber 1570 appears in later 1018 examples and runs at 19,800 vph with an approximately 48-hour reserve. Hacking was introduced within the 1500 family during the 1970s, but the exact production and service boundary should be checked on the movement. There is no date complication. See [[Reference:Movements|Movements]] for the family lineage. | ||
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==Dial map== | ==Dial map== | ||
Surviving examples commonly put longer faceted white-gold markers at 3, 6 and 9 with shorter markers at the remaining hours. It reads as a baton echo of the Explorer's Arabic 3-6-9 rather than a copy of it, and this is the configuration most often illustrated in the cited record. Luminous baton hands are standard. Earlier examples turn up with dauphine, sword or alpha hands instead, and auction catalogues describing a 1018 with "obelisque" hands are describing the same faceted baton shape under a different name. | |||
Colours documented across the run are silver, a paler milky silver, grey, and black. Within silver there is real variation in finish: sunburst on some examples, a flat metallic linen texture on others, and a coarser textured silver on the promotional dials. Black splits into two distinct things. A matte black dial appears in the collector literature as one of the four standard colours; a glossy black lacquer dial with gilt printing is something else entirely, and | Colours documented across the run are silver, a paler milky silver, grey, and black. Within silver there is real variation in finish: sunburst on some examples, a flat metallic linen texture on others, and a coarser textured silver on the promotional dials. Black splits into two distinct things. A matte black dial appears in the collector literature as one of the four standard colours; a glossy black lacquer dial with gilt printing is something else entirely, and two documented examples of it are listed below. | ||
Published guides and auction records in the cited set document silver, milky-silver, grey and black dials; they do not establish a factory blue variant. Blue dealer examples have been reported, but their originality and reference fitment remain unproven. A service or replacement dial is one possible explanation; the watch, dial construction and provenance need to be checked before assigning it to the factory set. | Published guides and auction records in the cited set document silver, milky-silver, grey and black dials; they do not establish a factory blue variant. Blue dealer examples have been reported, but their originality and reference fitment remain unproven. A service or replacement dial is one possible explanation; the watch, dial construction and provenance need to be checked before assigning it to the factory set. | ||
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="180"> | <gallery mode="packed" heights="180"> | ||
Ref 1018 dial.webp|Standard 1018 dial layout | File:Ref 1018 dial.webp|Standard 1018 dial layout | ||
Ref 1018 black dial.webp|Matte black 1018 dial example | File:Ref 1018 black dial.webp|Matte black 1018 dial example | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==Case, bezel, crystal, and crown== | ==Case, bezel, crystal, and crown== | ||
The cited examples use a three-body stainless-steel Oyster case with screw-down caseback and crown, smooth bezel and acrylic crystal. Published measurements are about 36mm across, 43mm lug to lug, 20mm between the lugs and 11.5–12mm thick. Measurements vary by catalogue method, so record the actual case and crystal. | |||
[[File:Ref 1018 lifestyle.webp|thumb|right|250px|The 1018 on a suede strap; 20mm between the lugs, the same as the Explorer|alt=The 1018 on a suede strap; 20mm between the lugs, the same as the Explorer]] | [[File:Ref 1018 lifestyle.webp|thumb|right|250px|The 1018 on a suede strap; 20mm between the lugs, the same as the Explorer|alt=The 1018 on a suede strap; 20mm between the lugs, the same as the Explorer]] | ||
The case size is where the sources genuinely disagree, and the disagreement is worth knowing before buying. Antiquorum catalogued the reference at 36mm diameter and 12mm thickness in both the Mondani Collection sale of 2006 and a 2011 New York sale. Phillips and Artcurial have each put it at 35mm. Bonhams alone spans the widest range of any house: 34mm on a London lot of 2019, 35mm on a New York lot of 2014, and 37mm on the 2004 London world-map lot, which is the outer bound of everything published. Christie's listed one at 34mm. Auction measurements of vintage Oyster cases are casual by convention and often taken excluding the crown or copied forward from a previous catalogue, so the spread says more about cataloguing practice than about the watch. The practical resolution is the lug width. A 34mm 4-digit Oyster Perpetual takes a 19mm bracelet; the 1018 takes 20mm, the same as the Explorer. A watch measuring 20mm between the lugs is not a 34mm case. | The case size is where the sources genuinely disagree, and the disagreement is worth knowing before buying. Antiquorum catalogued the reference at 36mm diameter and 12mm thickness in both the Mondani Collection sale of 2006 and a 2011 New York sale. Phillips and Artcurial have each put it at 35mm. Bonhams alone spans the widest range of any house: 34mm on a London lot of 2019, 35mm on a New York lot of 2014, and 37mm on the 2004 London world-map lot, which is the outer bound of everything published. Christie's listed one at 34mm. Auction measurements of vintage Oyster cases are casual by convention and often taken excluding the crown or copied forward from a previous catalogue, so the spread says more about cataloguing practice than about the watch. The practical resolution is the lug width. A 34mm 4-digit Oyster Perpetual takes a 19mm bracelet; the 1018 takes 20mm, the same as the Explorer. A watch measuring 20mm between the lugs is not a 34mm case. | ||
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==Bracelets, end links, and clasps== | ==Bracelets, end links, and clasps== | ||
Original delivery was on a rivet Oyster bracelet or on leather. The 7206 is the reference fitment, 20mm, non-stretch, with 58 end links, and it is | Original delivery was on a rivet Oyster bracelet or on leather. The 7206 is the reference fitment, 20mm, non-stretch, with 58 end links, and it is documented on several well-preserved examples. The 6636 stretch rivet also appears. Late-production and service-fitted examples turn up on the 78360, which belongs to a much later bracelet generation and should not be read as original to a 1960s head. Leather deliveries came with the period buckle rather than a folding clasp. | ||
Bracelet dating and case dating are separate questions. A clasp stamp dates the bracelet and nothing else, and | Bracelet dating and case dating are separate questions. A clasp stamp dates the bracelet and nothing else, and service history can change the bracelet on an individual watch. One documented same-quarter pairing is Bonhams' 2014 New York lot: the house catalogued a New York lot in 2014 with a case dated IV.66 on a riveted 7206 stamped 4.66, a head and bracelet from the same quarter still together. The cross-family detail sits on [[Reference:Bracelets|the bracelet and clasp guide]]. | ||
==Special branches== | ==Special branches== | ||
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===Global Insurance promotional dials=== | ===Global Insurance promotional dials=== | ||
Two 1018s made for the Global Insurance Company have passed through Antiquorum. The earlier, case number 675731, was made in 1961 and carries a textured silver dial with the letter G encircling a world map, luminous steel dauphine hands and caliber 1560. The later, case number 1270063, was made in 1965. Antiquorum called both extremely rare; the pairing shows that Rolex supplied this dial over at least a four-year window rather than as a single batch. A third watch falls inside that window: Bonhams sold a 1964 1018 with caliber 1560 and a monogrammed world-map dial in London in November 2004, without naming the company it was made for. | |||
Two 1018s made for the Global Insurance Company have passed through Antiquorum. The earlier, case number 675731, was made in 1961 and carries a textured silver dial with the letter G encircling a world map, luminous steel dauphine hands and caliber 1560. The later, case number 1270063, was made in 1965. Antiquorum | |||
[[File:Ref 1018 global insurance.webp|thumb|right|250px|Global Insurance promotional dial, the letter G encircling a world map — Antiquorum lot 298-102|alt=Global Insurance promotional dial, the letter G encircling a world map — Antiquorum lot 298-102]] | |||
Logo dials of this kind sit at the boundary between original delivery and later addition on most references. | Logo dials of this kind sit at the boundary between original delivery and later addition on most references. The corporate customer, the spread across at least three years and the consistent dial description support an original-delivery interpretation, but do not replace watch-specific provenance. | ||
===Serpico y Laino=== | ===Serpico y Laino=== | ||
Christie's offered a Serpico y Laino signed 1018 in the Dubai online sale of October 2022, a silvered-dial steel example dated to around 1964. | Christie's offered a Serpico y Laino signed 1018 in the Dubai online sale of October 2022, a silvered-dial steel example dated to around 1964. A Serpico y Laino 1007 has also surfaced, so the signature is not unique to either reference. The lot went unsold. Its catalogue entry also describes the movement as manual-winding and the case as 34mm, descriptions that conflict with the 1018 evidence. The signature should therefore be checked against the watch and its movement rather than accepted on the lot title alone. | ||
===Black lacquer with gilt printing=== | ===Black lacquer with gilt printing=== | ||
Phillips sold a black-lacquer 1018 with gilt dial graphics in the Hong Kong Watch Auction: THREE in November 2016, lot 1042, case number 1'744'608, dated to around 1968 and running caliber 1570 on a matching Oyster bracelet. Phillips catalogued that case at 35mm, adding to the published measurement spread. The lot sold at the result listed below; a second black-dial example appears in a 2014 Bonhams lot. Two examples establish a documented branch, not a universal price distinction. | |||
[[File:Ref 1018 black lacquer.webp|thumb|right|250px|Black lacquer dial with gilt graphics, cal 1570, c.1968 — Phillips Hong Kong lot 1042|alt=Black lacquer dial with gilt graphics, cal 1570, c.1968 — Phillips Hong Kong lot 1042]] | [[File:Ref 1018 black lacquer.webp|thumb|right|250px|Black lacquer dial with gilt graphics, cal 1570, c.1968 — Phillips Hong Kong lot 1042|alt=Black lacquer dial with gilt graphics, cal 1570, c.1968 — Phillips Hong Kong lot 1042]] | ||
==Auction record== | ==Auction record== | ||
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See also the [[Reference:oyster-perpetual|Oyster Perpetual family index]], [[Reference:Movements|movement reference]], [[Reference:Bracelets|bracelet & clasp guide]], and [[Reference:Serial-numbers|serial numbers by year]]. | See also the [[Reference:oyster-perpetual|Oyster Perpetual family index]], [[Reference:Movements|movement reference]], [[Reference:Bracelets|bracelet & clasp guide]], and [[Reference:Serial-numbers|serial numbers by year]]. | ||
<gallery mode="packed" heights="180"> | <gallery mode="packed" heights="180"> | ||
Ref 1018 hero.webp|1018 | File:Ref 1018 hero.webp|36mm steel 1018 with smooth bezel and silvered dial | ||
Ref 1018 dial.webp|1018 | File:Ref 1018 dial.webp|Standard 1018 dial layout | ||
Ref 1018 black dial.webp|1018 | File:Ref 1018 black dial.webp|Matte black 1018 dial example | ||
Ref 1018 lifestyle.webp|1018 | File:Ref 1018 lifestyle.webp|1018 on a suede strap | ||
Ref 1018 global insurance.webp| | File:Ref 1018 global insurance.webp|Global Insurance world-map dial | ||
Ref 1018 black lacquer.webp| | File:Ref 1018 black lacquer.webp|Black lacquer dial with gilt printing | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||