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<small>[[Reference:oyster-perpetual|Oyster Perpetual]] › '''1003'''</small> | <small>[[Reference:oyster-perpetual|Oyster Perpetual]] › '''1003'''</small> | ||
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The 1003 is the engine-turned 4-digit Oyster Perpetual, and the one the catalogues struggle to describe. Rolex's own term for the bezel is engine-turned; Sotheby's has called it milled, Bonhams has called it milled and ridged in the same decade, and Antiquorum, on the examples that matter most, calls it a graduated engine-turned bezel with hour divisions. Underneath the argument is the same watch as the smooth [[Reference:1002|1002]]: 34mm Oyster case, 19mm lugs, screw-down back and crown, acrylic crystal, chronometer-rated no-date automatic, caliber 1560 and then caliber 1570. | The 1003 is the engine-turned 4-digit Oyster Perpetual, and the one the catalogues struggle to describe. Rolex's own term for the bezel is engine-turned; Sotheby's has called it milled, Bonhams has called it milled and ridged in the same decade, and Antiquorum, on the examples that matter most, calls it a graduated engine-turned bezel with hour divisions. Underneath the argument is the same watch as the smooth [[Reference:1002|1002]]: 34mm Oyster case, 19mm lugs, screw-down back and crown, acrylic crystal, chronometer-rated no-date automatic, caliber 1560 and then caliber 1570. | ||
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Its documented population splits along an unusual line. Steel 1003s are ordinary and trade like ordinary vintage Rolex. The gold ones are mostly not catalogue watches at all: they are twenty-five-year service awards, and Coca-Cola commissioned enough of them that the reference's auction record is dominated by a single corporate gift programme. The best 1003 result on file is a Coca-Cola dial that went for roughly five times its high estimate. | Its documented population splits along an unusual line. Steel 1003s are ordinary and trade like ordinary vintage Rolex. The gold ones are mostly not catalogue watches at all: they are twenty-five-year service awards, and Coca-Cola commissioned enough of them that the reference's auction record is dominated by a single corporate gift programme. The best 1003 result on file is a Coca-Cola dial that went for roughly five times its high estimate. | ||
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