History behind the Rolex Milgauss

Every watch collection that has ever been released by Rolex, has a strong reason and purpose behind its release. So basically, the watches are designed and manufactured to fit the requirements of people who work in different fields and factories. For example, the Submariner was specifically designed to fit the requirements of professional divers, the Yacht-Master was supposed to help with the timing and precision that is required by sailors. In the same manner, the Rolex Milgauss was designed to meet the requirements of scientists and other professional personnel whose job required long hours being spent in power plants and labs for research purposes.

The issue with wearing regular watches to such workplaces was that the intense magnetic rays of the powerplants and such facilities, messed up with the working of the watches. So that watches either ended up having a defective mechanism due to magnetism or they just stopped working altogether. So the workers had to make do with watches that did not work, or choose to not wear a watch once and for all.

This trouble kept going unnoticed until the renowned watchmaking brand, Rolex, decided to design something outstanding and really helpful for the employees to work with. This is when the Rolex Milgauss was introduced to the world in the decade of 1950s. But before it could be made available on a larger scale, a test run was arranged by the company at the most respectable physics lab, called CERN. During this successful test run, it was recorded that not only could the Rolex Milgauss resist magnetic rays, but it could resist the rays intensity up to 1000 gauss which was an unbelievable achievement for the brand.

This watch not only looks better when worn, but it has played a huge role in helping people to be more productive in their workspace. It has successfully solved a lot of problems that the scientists had been facing for quite some time regarding keeping track of the time.

While the other watch collections by Rolex have been considerably elaborate, the release of the Rolex Milgauss watches was not anything grand. The company has only released two pieces of the Rolex Milgauss since the 1960s and the 1970s. Then during the 80s, the Milgauss collection by Rolex was discontinued by the company for a long while till it was almost itself it was never released by Rolex at all.

In 2007, new and improved versions of the original Rolex Milgauss were released by the brand which was not that far off from the original design but they definitely had some prominent variations when compared to the previous models. An outstanding feat that was added to the newer Milgauss watches was that they were now even more resistant to the magnetic fields and its effects than the watches that had been designed before them. An interesting fact about the Milgauss collection by Rolex is that it has a magnetic flux symbol on the watch but that symbol can only be accessed by a watchmaker that has been exclusively certified by the company.