2024 New Rolex 1908 39 mm, platinum, polished finish Reference 52506

The Perpetual 1908 features a 39 mm case in platinum with an alligator leather strap.

The ice blue dial features a guilloché rice-grain motif. This rosette-like design is distinctive for its three-dimensional, repeating geometric pattern that extends across the surface of the dial starting from the small seconds counter at 6 o’clock. The minute track is surrounded by a filet sauté with crimped pattern, which is also guilloché. With the introduction of a dial created via guillochage, or engine turning – a technique that uses a turning tool to sculpt a pattern into a surface – Rolex is pursuing the course it has set for the Perpetual collection as a tribute to the classic art of watchmaking infused with the brand’s know-how and creativity. This exclusive dial bears the same Arabic numerals 3, 9 and 12, the same faceted hour markers and the same hands as that of the 18 kt gold versions.

This exclusive dial colour can be found only on the Day-Date, the Cosmograph Daytona and the Perpetual 1908.

This elegant and understated watch features a slim case crowned with a bezel that is part domed and part finely fluted – the lower part being given an elegant fluting and the upper part domed.

Rare and precious, platinum is striking for its silvery whiteness and vibrant luminosity. It is among the densest and heaviest metals in the world, distinguished by unique chemical and physical properties such as exceptional corrosion resistance.

Paradoxically, it is also soft, elastic and highly malleable, which makes machining and polishing especially difficult, demanding an extremely high degree of skill. Rolex always uses 950 platinum, an alloy consisting of 950‰ (thousandths) platinum, painstakingly crafted in-house by the fine metalworkers at Rolex. The noblest of metals for the finest of watches.

This 1908 version is fitted on an alligator leather strap. This elegant strap is distinctive for its green calfskin lining and tone-on-tone stitching.

It is equipped with a Dualclasp, a double folding clasp, in platinum. Thanks to it carefully designed shape, the Dualclasp always sits centered on the wrist.

• Model case

  • Model case

    39 mm, platinum, polished finish

  • Diameter

    39 mm

  • Material

    Platinum

  • Bezel

    Domed and fluted

  • Winding crown

    Domed

  • Crystal

    Scratch-resistant sapphire

  • Water resistance

    Waterproof to 50 metres / 165 feet

• Movement

  • Movement

    Perpetual, mechanical, self-winding

  • Calibre

    7140, manufacture Rolex

  • Precision

    -2/+2 sec/day, after casing

  • Functions

    Centre hour and minute hands, small seconds hand at 6 o’clock. Stop-seconds for exact time setting

  • Oscillator