CIRCA: 2001
CASE MATERIAL: Stainless steel with engine-turned bezel
DIAMETER: 34 mm.
BRACELET: Stainless steel Rolex Oyster bracelet
DIAL: Silvered with Domino's Pizza logo, baton numerals, luminous accents, luminous hands, sweep centre seconds
MOVEMENT: Automatic
FUNCTIONS: Time only
WITH: Rolex guarantee confirming the sale of the watch in May, 2001, and original hang tag

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拍品卖家为： Christie's Dubai Ltd.

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How did the logo of a pizza chain end up on the dial of a Rolex? A little insight can be gleaned from Tom Managhan’s 1986 autobiography Pizza Tiger. In the book, Domino’s Pizza founder Managhan explains that it all began when he gave his own Bulova watch to a franchise manager after losing a bet in the late 1970s. Managhan had challenged the manager to turn in $20,000 a week.

In the early days, a manager had to hit $20,000 in sales per week to get a Rolex Air King. Eventually, the Rolex Challenge would require a franchise to hit $25,000 in sales for four consecutive weeks to make the cut. Rolex stopped putting the pizza chain’s logo on the dial in the early 2000s and the Oyster Perpetual models that replaced the Air-Kings had a more discrete logo integrated onto the second link of the steel bracelet.

The Air-King was the entry-level Rolex till it was discontinued in 2014 but was relaunched following a major redesign in 2016.

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