Have You Heard Of The Canadian Rolex?

Описание: VINTAGE SOLAR AQUA - The Canadian Rolex

Solar was the in-house brand of the Eatons department store, a chain that existed in Canada for over a century. Watches branded only “Solar”, and without the word “Aqua” have nothing to do with Rolex. Eatons sourced watches from many companies over the years but “Aqua” was a Rolex trademark, which had been used as an alternative to the “Oyster” branding in earlier years.

The Solar Aqua name disappeared in the mid-50s when Rolex dropped the Oyster name as a second brand line, introducing TUDOR as their second brand and using the Oyster name on both Rolex and Tudor.

This model is a Solar Aqua reserved for Canadian Oyster cases. It has a Rolex modified Swiss calibre 59, 17 jewels, manual wind. Finding any information on this specific watch has been difficult. I believe this watch is from 1939. Almost all Canadian Rolexes, which were largely sold to Canadian soldiers preparing for WW2, were powered by Fontainemelon FHF30 movements, which Rolex called “caliber 59” (and sometimes “caliber 65”) when used in their watches. It was widely believed that all Canadian Rolexes of the 1940’s had FHF30 movements.


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