The Perfect Replica Rolex Ait-King Reference 4925, The Hand-Wound Era (1945 – 1953)
This initial Air-King again looked very different from typical models from ref. 5500 (1957 – 1989) and could be mistaken for another model entirely without Air-King being printed on the dial. However, the DNA was there from the start with a 34mm stainless steel (Bubbleback) Oyster case, screw-down crown, respectable (for the time) 50 metres of water resistance and drilled lugs. The dial was an eggshell colour with shallow applied Arabic numerals (gold colour) in an avant-garde font. The luxury replica Rolex watches’ crowns were printed under 12 o’clock with ROLEX underneath and OYSTER AIR-KING under that. And that was all there was to it, other than a simple track of matching applied dots spanning the perimeter. Later 4925 models had SWISS MADE printed at the very bottom, but it seems early 1945 dials may have skipped this. Matching (colour) leaf hour and minute hands were used under an acrylic crystal with a blued seconds hand, offering reasonable legibility in a simple, straightforward package. Not quite a pilot’s watch, but again one to honour RAF pilots who flew during the war.
Although the Oyster Perpetual debuted in 1931 with the pairing of the Oyster case and automatic calibre 620 (the Oyster Perpetual name might’ve waited until 1932), the Air-King started life with a more modest hand-wound Hunter movement from Aegler, calibre 10.5. It had 15 jewels and beat at a standard (for the time) 18,000vph or 2.5Hz, and was not a chronometer or even finely adjusted. Despite not having a rotor, the case was a shared Bubbleback design to accommodate automatic counterparts, again why some other cheap super clone Rolex models are identical save for the dial. It was a reliable, perfectly adequate and affordable workhorse, but was upgraded a year later with ref. 4499 that actually ran alongside ref. 4925 until both were discontinued in 1953. It should be noted that online replica Rolex automatics prior to calibre 1030 in 1950 were based on Hunter movements with added modules for the rotor. So, the thicker calibres that resulted again needed the Bubbleback case and Rolex wasn’t going to design a new one just for the Air-King.
The Best Replica Rolex Ait-King Reference 4365 (1945 – 1953)
This top fake Rolex Air-King reference and ref. 4925 basically ran together from start to finish, but the differences between the two were surprisingly stark. For starters, ref. 4365 had a large small seconds sub-dial in lieu of central hands, so they used different hand-wound movements (although both based on calibre 10.5). The reasoning is that it was also made as Air-Lion and Air-Giant models, so the differentiation makes sense. The AAA copy watches share dial features with both ref. 4925 and the upcoming ref. 4499, starting with the flat applied indices of ref. 4925 but a more contemporary printed outer track that’s continued on ref. 4499. PRECISION is now printed on the dial like ref. 4499, but tightly wedged between the top of the sub-dial and central hands. It indicates a slightly improved variant of calibre 10.5 that most likely went to 17 jewels from 15 (also seen with ref. 4499 with its updated calibre 10.5, but with a central seconds hand). The leaf hands were also narrower than ref. 4925, just like ref. 4499, along with the addition of SWISS MADE at the bottom of all dials.