Ben Clymer

There's really no indication these are anything special on the dial, besides it would say QA on that.

They're around.

You can buy them today for really less than you might think.

But once he had been given the QA certificates for the first wristwatch ever, he decided to really focus on three tenets of watchmaking, which really were not at all prevalent in that day at all, because it was really about utility.

The watch can tell you the time pretty well, or it was about luxury.

And at that point, we're talking, you know, the Cartier's, Patek Philippe's complications, really.

So his three tenets of manufacturing, which remain true to this day, would be precision, accuracy, waterproofness, which didn't really exist at the time, and then self-winding.

And what I mean by that is the ability to not have to wind the watch manually.

So precision was done.

We've kind of covered that.

These watches were based on QA.

They came up with a new statement to make them more precise.

So waterproofness, I think, goes back to the question you asked about five minutes ago, which is how did you get something that more people know about that basically can afford or can find?

And so he created something called the Oyster Case.

And now almost all Rolexes, with the exception of the Cellini line, use an Oyster Case.

And that basically just means a waterproof case.

Nobody was doing it at the time.

Omega had something that was pretty close and actually predates the Oyster Case, but never really took off in the same way.

Instead of using seals, it was almost like a locking system.

Didn't really take off.