Air-King
Singularity and legibility
Instantly recognizable thanks to its minutes scale, allowing for immediate navigational time readings, the Air-King honours the pioneers of aviation and incorporates the distinctive features of our Professional watches.
The Air-King owes its uniqueness, both aesthetic and functional, to its dial, which combines large 3, 6, and 9 hour markers with a prominent minutes scale. Common in the world of aviation watches, this minutes scale display provides instant and optimal legibility for navigational time readings.
Exclusive to Rolex, the Chromalight display on the Air-King’s dial provides optimal legibility, no matter the light conditions. The material applied to the numeral hour markers, triangular hour marker and hands is a brilliant white in daylight and emits an intense blue glow in the dark.
The Air‑King is equipped with a 40 mm Oyster case guaranteed waterproof to a depth of 100 metres (330 feet). Its performance has been confirmed by tests carried out as part of the Superlative Chronometer certification process.
Since 2022, the Air-King has benefited from a crown guard that protects the Twinlock winding crown from shocks.
Our Twinlock winding crown presents two zones of waterproofness. It comprises around 10 components, made from materials rigorously selected on the basis of their intrinsic qualities, such as polymers for the waterproof seals and Oystersteel.
The Air‑King is exclusively offered in Oystersteel. This alloy, specific to Rolex, belongs to the 904L steel family, commonly used in advanced-technology fields such as the aerospace and chemical industries.
The Air‑King is equipped with an Oyster bracelet, composed of solid links in Oystersteel. Developed in the late 1930s, our Oyster bracelet combines comfort and robustness with its rows of broad, slightly curved three-piece links.
A certified Superlative Chronometer, the Oyster Perpetual Air-King has been powered since 2022 by calibre 3230, a self-winding mechanical movement via a Perpetual rotor entirely developed and manufactured by Rolex.