History of the Rolex Submariner: How the Dive Watch Has Changed Over Time

We take a look at how the world’s most famous watch has evolved over the past three generations.

Rolex isn’t the type of company to introduce sweeping changes in one of its flagship products simply for the hell of it — rather, small, incremental adjustments and updates are the norm. In fact, the changes can be so incremental that a novice watch buyer (or even a watch nerd!) might have trouble identifying them. To that end, we thought a guide to the changes to the more modern Subs — those that have come out since the retirement of the reference 5513 in 1989 — might help you better wrap your brain around this most iconic of watches.

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