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The Rolex Prince is a rectangular Art-Deco family introduced in 1928 and produced into the mid-1940s. Its Aegler shaped movement places the winding barrel at one end of the plate and the balance at the other. The defining dial layout has hours and minutes in the upper register and sub-seconds at six, the format behind the later “doctor's watch” nickname. Period advertising presented the Prince as a chronometer model, but the grade and dial designation still need to be checked on each watch. | The Rolex Prince is a rectangular Art-Deco family introduced in 1928 and produced into the mid-1940s. Its Aegler shaped movement places the winding barrel at one end of the plate and the balance at the other. The defining dial layout has hours and minutes in the upper register and sub-seconds at six, the format behind the later “doctor's watch” nickname. Period advertising presented the Prince as a chronometer model, but the grade and dial designation still need to be checked on each watch. | ||
The vintage catalog includes 971, 1490, 1491, 1527, 1862, 3361, and 3937, with the unflared 1343 Classic and pocket-watch reference 1645 alongside them. Production tapered during the Second World War as Rolex concentrated on the Oyster Perpetual platform. A documented Prince case carries a 1947 dedication, but that is an example date rather than a firm end date for the family. | The vintage catalog includes 971, 1490, 1491, 1527, 1862, 3361, and 3937, with the unflared 1343 Classic and pocket-watch reference 1645 alongside them. Production tapered during the Second World War as Rolex concentrated on the Oyster Perpetual platform. A documented Prince case carries a 1947 dedication, but that is an example date rather than a firm end date for the family. Watch LIFE NEWS dates the modern Cellini Prince revival to 2005. The Cellini Prince is separate from the vintage rectangular Princes; refs. [[Reference:5440/8|5440/8]] (yellow gold) and [[Reference:5441/9|5441/9]] (white gold) each have a page. | ||
== Common entry points == | == Common entry points == | ||
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* [https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4642354 Christie’s, Prince ref. 1768 case 011069, circa 1940] | * [https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4642354 Christie’s, Prince ref. 1768 case 011069, circa 1940] | ||
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20141220000635/http://www.rolex.com/watches/cellini-rolex-prince/m5441_9-0012.html Rolex, Cellini Prince 5441/9 product page (archived 2014)] | * [https://web.archive.org/web/20141220000635/http://www.rolex.com/watches/cellini-rolex-prince/m5441_9-0012.html Rolex, Cellini Prince 5441/9 product page (archived 2014)] | ||
* [https://www.powerwatch.jp/2021/01/31/rolex_79/ Yoshimasa Kikuchi, Watch LIFE NEWS, 2021] | |||
* [https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/cellini-rolex-prince-the-rolex-nobody-knows-and-should Jack Forster, Hodinkee, modern Cellini Prince introduction (2015)] | * [https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/cellini-rolex-prince-the-rolex-nobody-knows-and-should Jack Forster, Hodinkee, modern Cellini Prince introduction (2015)] | ||
[[Category:Prince]] | [[Category:Prince]] | ||
[[Category:Family]] | [[Category:Family]] | ||