{"product_id":"official-rolex-service-centre-manuals-complete-set-of-four-c-1980s","title":"Official Rolex Service Centre Manuals, Complete Set of Four, c.1980s","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe four binders Rolex issued to its authorised watchmakers and never sold: a complete service library for the mechanical calibres of the era, with an original factory letter still inside.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRolex guarded its service knowledge like an archive. The documents that told a watchmaker how to open, repair and rebuild its movements were issued on loan to certified workshops, and recalled or destroyed when new editions arrived. Almost none of them were supposed to reach the outside world, and almost none did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a full set from a single service centre: the technical manual, Volume A, and the three spare parts catalogues, R6, R7 and R8, which together cover the mechanical calibres behind the Submariner, GMT-Master, Datejust and Day-Date, along with the Valjoux movements of the Daytona. Every part drawn, numbered and cross-referenced, in the binders Rolex supplied, with their Rolex and Tudor divider tabs still in place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe working life of the set is still legible on it. The ring mechanisms all function, the pages are clean and complete, one cover carries the tape residue of a workshop shelf label, and tucked inside one volume is a factory circular letter from Rolex in Geneva, the sort of paper that lived in a filing cabinet and left it for the bin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA set like this is a workshop's entire Rolex practice, in paper. The watches these pages kept running are collected everywhere; the pages themselves are the scarce half of the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe library is set out volume by volume in the rooms below; the condition and the particulars are beneath them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rolex","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54531626631507,"sku":"CI-0024","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/rolex-sa-curiosity-item-11_design.jpg?v=1786461412","url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/products\/official-rolex-service-centre-manuals-complete-set-of-four-c-1980s","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}