Fancy Timing

The new line of Cellini watches from Rolex reveals the dressy, sophisticated side of the family

A detail of the Cellini Dual Time

The Cellini Date

The basic model, Cellini Time, shows the hours, minutes and seconds in an elegant expression of the traditional three-hand watch, with centre seconds, minutes and hour hands.

The Cellini Date has the extra feature of a sub-dial for the date display between 2 and 3 o’clock. Lastly, Cellini Dual Time shows a gold-rimmed dial at 6 o’clock that displays the minutes and hours of a second time zone. To differentiate day-time hours from night-time hours, a sun or moon symbol transits the sub-dial’s small aperture at 9 o’clock. The hour hand can be set independently by successive jumps to adjust to a new local time zone, without disturbing the functioning of the watch or the chronometric precision of the movement.

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