I · The Maker/II · The Case/III · The Record/IV · Acquisition
Room I · The Maker
Rolex, in the house green
Rolex was founded by Hans Wilsdorf in London in 1905 and has been based in Geneva since 1919. Its green, long used for its watch boxes and showroom fittings, extends to a small range of leather goods made for the firm, including this document case. It carries the crown alone, without the Rolex wordmark, and the dealer or client it was first supplied to is not recorded.
Room II · The Case
A flat folio with a handle that folds away
The case is built flat, 4.5 cm deep and 38.5 by 29 cm across the faces, in bottle-green grained leather. The handle pivots on a brass rivet at each end; folded, it lies flat in a recess let into the top band, and raised it gives a 5 cm grip. Triple embossed lines run across that band on both faces.
The top closes with a brass zip running between chromed end-stops. A riveted, stitched wrist strap hangs from the pull, whose tab is struck with a script maker's mark and SWISS. The crown sits small at the upper right of the front, in gold foil, and is the only Rolex mark on the case.
The top closes with a brass zip running between chromed end-stops. A riveted, stitched wrist strap hangs from the pull, whose tab is struck with a script maker's mark and SWISS. The crown sits small at the upper right of the front, in gold foil, and is the only Rolex mark on the case.
The handle folded flat into the top band; the zip open on the black-lined compartment; the case at three-quarter.
Room III · The Record
Signed with the crown, fitted with a Swiss zip
The gold-foil crown, with the zip pull and its riveted wrist strap.
The case is signed with the Rolex crown in gold foil on the front, and its zip pull is struck with a script maker's mark over SWISS. Its format, 38.5 by 29 cm with a leather handle that folds into the top band, is that of the Rolex green leather document case of the 1970s and 1980s. There are no other marks inside or out.
Leather
Very good
A few light surface marks to the front and light creasing along the top band; no tears or repairs.
Handle
Very good
A small scuff to one side; folds flat and lifts cleanly.
Crown
Excellent
Gold foil crisp with no loss.
Zip
Very good
Runs smoothly along its full length; slider darkened with age.
Wrist strap
Good
Edges worn to the grey core.
Interior
Very good
Black lining, no tears.
- Maker
- Rolex
- Model
- Green leather document case with folding handle
- Date
- C.1970s-1980s
- Material
- Green grained leather, black lining
- Dimensions
- 38.5 by 29 by 4.5 cm
- Fits
- 13-inch MacBook Air or 14-inch MacBook Pro
- Handle
- Rigid, leather-covered, folds flat; rises 5 cm
- Closure
- Brass zip with chromed end-stops, pull stamped SWISS
- Marks
- Gold-foil Rolex crown to the front
- Box / papers
- None
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Room IV · Acquisition
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Rolex Green Leather Document Case, c.1970s-80s
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