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The Rolex Oyster Perpetual 114200 features a 34mm stainless steel case surrounding an olive green dial on a stainless steel Oyster bracelet with folding buckle. Functions of this Rolex watch include hours, minutes and seconds. This Rolex Oyster Perpetual 34 also measures 11.6mm in thickness and 41.8mm from lug-to-lug.
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And today, we're discussing the most fun you can have in a three hands steel watch. This is the Rolex Oyster Perpetual 114200, the Oyster Perpetual 34 with an olive green dial and orange accents. It's a handsome, modern day heir to the legacy of the Rolex Bubble Back of the 1930s, 40s and 50s—the original Oyster case, automatic Rolex watches, and this is their closest living ancestor. On my 16cm circumference wrist, the 34, which as you can see is more of a cushion case than a round case, wears quite easily. It's not a thick watch. It has a domed bezel, and thus with a thickness of 11.6mm, slides easily underneath any cuff, including tight shirt sleeves—a compact watch across the wrist. If you measure the case, it's 41.8mm lug-to-lug. If you measure the solid end links, the Oyster bracelet, it's a still very manageable 43.6mm with a 19mm spacing between the lugs. And I do think it would look lovely on an aftermarket olive green strap.

That said, the bracelet is a wonderful piece and I feel bad for the first owner of this watch because he or she never bothered to truly enjoy it. This one still comes with a lot of its original packing stickers and well, that proves that the watch is all virgin condition and wonderfully intact. But, it can't be much fun to own a Rolex and not wear it. You're going to wear this watch, right? Good. Okay, satin finish across the top of the links—you can see the Oyster bracelet—quite solid, polished facets on the outer facing, but that's it. On the underside, plenty of gaps to vent the wrist on a hot day and avoid pinching skin or pulling hair. And then you have a clasp that's handsomely polished inside with a lift lock trigger. So, you can see how there's a beak and a hook system. It snaps shut, and it stays shut. It's not a friction fit system. I can't pull it open. I have to disengage with the vertical trigger and then it pops open. It doesn't have easy links. This is the entry-level Rolex model, but you could see internally it does feature three divots in the clasp, so you can change the anchoring point to the bracelet in the clasp. You'll also note there are little tracks that run from the outside of the clasp into the divot to help guide the spring bar along. You need a strap tool to make that adjustment. You can see more removable links fixed by screws.

Roll back the case, handsome case design. This is the case that you'll find on the Oyster Perpetuals, the Datejusts, the Day-Dates—it's even a little bit in the Yacht-Masters, in the Daytonas—all the watches that haven't gone over to the Super Case have this profile. They're graceful, traditional, and they have a handsome compound curvature that makes them feel sinuous and sexy in a way the blockish Super Case can never be.

There's a domed bezel, which I like because it does give the watch that little potbellied neo-Bubble Back look. And then there is a dial that was part of the class of 2015 when Rolex rolled out the current generation of the Oyster Perpetual and a broad range of colorful and charming dials. This is the olive green metallic. And you can see it's a sunburst texture with appliqué white gold indices, white gold hands, white gold Rolex crown. White gold? Because it will never tarnish or oxidize. And then, you have little indices outboard of the primary indices that are orange for a lovely contrast. So, it is a orange, white, and green dial, twin lock crowns, screw down 100m water-resistant. Underneath the case back, Rolex manufacture caliber 3131. 31 jewels, automatic winding, bidirectional silent action, 48-hour power reserve, 28,800 vibrations per hour beat rate.

When you thread out the crown, there is a stop seconds function so you can synchronize the watch to a reference time. It has a sports watch movement architecture, meaning a full balance bridge with a pre-sprung balance for shock resistance. It is a handmade Breguet overcoil hairspring that allows the watch to keep excellent time in any orientation with respect to gravity on your wrist, or on your dresser at night, helping to watch to earn a COSC-chronometers certification. But, Rolex does not stop there as it takes the COSC- certified movement, cases it up, and then tests the entire assembled watch. That is the watch as you'll receive it so that it runs no worse than -2/+2 seconds per day. That is the new substantive basis for the term superlative chronometer on the dial.

Finally, Rolex uses a highly anti-magnetic, blue oxidized niobium zirconium alloy in the hairspring. That makes the watch largely resistant to magnetic fields. Is that is the same alloy used in the famous IWC Ingenieur 500.000 A/m per meter. Rolex doesn't make that kind of claim, but it's the same material. It's known as parachrom blue—the timepiece wonderfully versatile. I can recommend it for a huge range of wrists, including wrists as small as 13cm circumference. But, I can also recommend it first as large as 17cm circumference. It's a punchy, fun, and charming little watch with immense character. See it and make it yours on the WatchBox.