Henry reflects on some time with the Rolex Submariner Date ✓ And he asks: can the watch be seperated from its baggage as a cultural icon? ✓

“As a historian with a lifelong obsession with watches, I was delighted and excited to be given unique access to the Rolex archives and flattered and honoured to be invited to set down in print the first authorized accounts of timepieces that have helped shape history,” Foulkes said in a statement.

The Crown’s Submariner, its flagship dive watch, is getting an authorized tome—the first in a series around Rolex’s most important models.

Published by Wallpaper* and written by Nicholas Foulkes, this 252-page book is the first Rolex-backed history of the Submariner.