Watches & Wonders 2024: Rolex Sky-Dweller Debuts in Gold on Jubilee Bracelet

Watches and Wonders, the world’s biggest exhibition of new timepieces, kicks off today in Geneva, and we are on site at the show to cover the most exciting and significant new releases from some of your favorite brands — starting with Rolex, which offers among its newest releases the newest version of its Sky-Dweller in 18k rose gold.

The Background: The Sky-Dweller is Rolex’s newest product family, introduced in 2012. It is an annual calendar watch with a cleverly designed in-house movement, Caliber 9001, which employs an off-center, rotating 24-hour disk to indicate a second time zone. The local time, indicated by the central hands, can be adjusted quickly when you change time zones by setting the hour hand forward or backward in one-hour increments without affecting the other indicators. Like other annual calendars (Rolex calls its version a Saros calendar), it’s designed to require adjustment only once per year, at the end of February. In 2023, after several quiet years for the collection, Rolex introduced new Sky-Dwellers in white-gold cases, with upgraded Superlative Chronometer movements, at Watches & Wonders.

What's New: Rolex has launched the Sky-Dweller in two new iterations for 2024, both in 42mm Oyster cases made of 18k gold and both mounted on Jubilee bracelets — a first for the Sky-Dweller model. One of the new Sky-Dwellers combines a case made of Rolex's own Everose gold alloy with a compelling slate-colored dial. the other marries an intense white dial to a case made of yellow gold. Both cases are made from a monobloc of the precious metal, with fine fluting on the bezel edge and caseback, and waterproof to 100 meters. Inside, as in last year's white-gold model, is the recently introduced Rolex in-house Caliber 9002, with automatic winding, a 70-hour power reserve, and the expected host of Rolex-exclusive and patented technical features, including an anti-magnetic nickel phosphorus escapement, a blue Parachrom hairspring, and high-performance Paraflex shock absorbers.