Given the book is $400+ on the secondary market this isn't a bad price. Great pictures and references. A couple of detractors. Buggy: there are times where the loading page locks and I need to reset my phone. Poor UI: difficult to flip from dial to movement to caseback for a particular watch. For example, if I'm looking at a 1601 reference watch and I want to see the movement, I have to exit the watch screen and then find the corresponding caliber on a separate screen. It should really be more seamless.
Auro (John Goldberger) app is brilliant for on the go access to superlative Rolex information. I will eventually get the book when I’ve saved up a bit, but for the price and convenience in app format I am very happy.
I expected more detail and history on the watches. It’s just a small picture of each, less than what you get for free on the internet. Huge waste of money, do not buy.
I purchased Vintage Rolex for iPad many years ago, and it was corrupted in my iPad last week by some reason. Then, I had to buy this version since the app required $24.99 by some reason. However, I have purchased again assuming that previously purchased iPad app was expired, this version is for the small screen iPhone, and nowhere near the iPad size version what I have purchased previously. It is almost fraud.
Vintage Rolex by John Goldberger Detailed informations on the most beautiful and rarest watches produced by Rolex. After the publishing of 100 Superlative Rolex Watches, now you can read on your iPhone and iPod touch display each page of this magnificent book, pinch to zoom in and out to view text and photos of Rolex watches that John Goldberger considers to be the most interesting examples ever produced by Geneva watch company. Three hundred eighty examples at your fingertips, traced back through time thanks to painstaking research, with the collaboration of some of the most renowned collectors in the world, and photographed to show the characteristics of the movement, case and dial of each example in the best possible way. Over 1200 photos in high definition and 800 descriptions provide the collector and watch enthusiast with invaluable informations and new revelations on case reference numbers, dials, movements, related calibers and the year of production of each watch. A journey in the quintessence of the Rolex spirit to grasp the essence of a brand that has probably contributed more than any other to the development of the wristwatch. Contents: The book 100 Superlative Rolex Watches, 264 pages 404 different models 216 types of dials 189 casebacks with its related references 125 movements with its related caliber
