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The 1007 is the engine-turned member of the 4-digit no-date Oyster Perpetual line. Same 34mm Oyster case as the 1002, same caliber 1560 and then caliber 1570, same chronometer certification and acrylic crystal; the difference is a wide, flat bezel milled with alternating cut and polished segments instead of a plain polished surround. It ran from around 1959 into the early 1980s, in steel and in solid gold, ~~and it is the reference that carries the widest~~ documented dial spread of the ~~whole group~~.

The 1007 is the engine-turned member of the 4-digit no-date Oyster Perpetual line. Same 34mm Oyster case as the 1002, same caliber 1560 and then caliber 1570, same chronometer certification and acrylic crystal; the difference is a wide, flat bezel milled with alternating cut and polished segments instead of a plain polished surround. It ran from around 1959 into the early 1980s, in steel and in solid gold, with a documented dial spread covering silvered, black, and the Snoopy custom-dial curiosity detailed below.

Rolex applied the engine-turned treatment across several reference numbers at once, so the 1007 has to be read against its immediate siblings rather than on its own. What separates it in practice is variety: retailer-signed dials for Tiffany & Co. and for Serpico y Laino, gold cases in both 14 and 18 carat, a blue horizontal-brushed dial nobody has been able to match to a second example, and a 1967 steel watch whose dial carries a printed cartoon beagle.

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-The 1007 is the engine-turned member of the 4-digit no-date Oyster Perpetual line. Same 34mm Oyster case as the 1002, same caliber 1560 and then caliber 1570, same chronometer certification and acrylic crystal; the difference is a wide, flat bezel milled with alternating cut and polished segments instead of a plain polished surround. It ran from around 1959 into the early 1980s, in steel and in solid gold, and it is the reference that carries the widest documented dial spread of the whole group.
+The 1007 is the engine-turned member of the 4-digit no-date Oyster Perpetual line. Same 34mm Oyster case as the 1002, same caliber 1560 and then caliber 1570, same chronometer certification and acrylic crystal; the difference is a wide, flat bezel milled with alternating cut and polished segments instead of a plain polished surround. It ran from around 1959 into the early 1980s, in steel and in solid gold, with a documented dial spread covering silvered, black, and the Snoopy custom-dial curiosity detailed below.
 Rolex applied the engine-turned treatment across several reference numbers at once, so the 1007 has to be read against its immediate siblings rather than on its own. What separates it in practice is variety: retailer-signed dials for Tiffany & Co. and for Serpico y Laino, gold cases in both 14 and 18 carat, a blue horizontal-brushed dial nobody has been able to match to a second example, and a 1967 steel watch whose dial carries a printed cartoon beagle.