FAQ: How will I find the hidden 107 dots on my Rolex?>>>>

First you have to have good light and a good view, otherwise the reading glasses recommended.
If not of that working you have to put the watch at the front of your camera and try to find it that way.

Here is how I use to do.

http://youtu.be/jgQBS2JpCHo

And after some training it will looks like this.

http://www.watchwallpapers.com/laslgwp.jpg

This is a service/replacement crystal the have the lying S in the coronet that those crystal have for a few years.
Today it's only the regular without the S that Rolex provides.

Amazing picture Jocke

Quality

Shine an LED torch in the SIDE wall of the crystal, the coronet will light up like a Xmas tree :smug:

It's like magic! I never knew but it works!

That was really something

Wow that is cool

Awesome.
In the right lighting I can see mine by eye.

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Originally Posted by Faiz

Awesome.
In the right lighting I can see mine by eye.

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You're lucky to have such good sight :eagerness:

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Originally Posted by reggie747

You're lucky to have such good sight :eagerness:

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Don't get me wrong I can't see the dots!
I can see the crown as one.

Is this ALL ROLEX watches? Says he whilst struggling to see anything with a table light and magnifying glass in front of his datejust ;-)

Your photoes are really something :)

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Originally Posted by GraniteQuarry

Shine an LED torch in the SIDE wall of the crystal, the coronet will light up like a Xmas tree :smug:

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Thanks for that. I've been trying to see it for ages and finally have.

Wow, amazing shot. Knew there was an etched coronet but knew nothing of the 107 dots.

Lovely work,Jocke

Nice pic Jocke!

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Originally Posted by GraniteQuarry

Shine an LED torch in the SIDE wall of the crystal, the coronet will light up like a Xmas tree :smug:

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Good to know! :-)

Great stuff!

Tried the led torch approach and was able to spot it for the first time on my 2013 Exp 2.
It was news to me that this existed!

anyone know when it was brought in?

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Originally Posted by ktmog6uk

anyone know when it was brought in?

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They started in 2001.

People do, of course, attempt to fake the coronet.

As an extra security measure, the dots do not quite lie on a horizontal plane (parallel to the surface of the glass) but the coronet is slightly "pitched" forward. This can be visible if one has good eyes, cleans the side surface of the glass at six o'clock and looks at the coronet through that aspect.

In 2013 I was amazed to be shown this email, apparently from Rolex UK's materials department :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...pshnzcjxrs.jpg

Haywood M

Great stuff! :thumbsup:

I don't have the luxury of a D3X but will give this a go at some point.

That is really cool, will have to get a Rolex now for sure.

Nothing to beat Jocke's above, but there's a thread with a variety of shots @

http://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=33710

Jocke, I'm not sure why, but that is so cool. Great stuff.