Rolex Releases Vienna Philharmonic Edition of its Oyster Perpetual Watch

The limited-edition watch was worn by Yuja Wang and Cecilia Bartoli at the orchestra's New Year's Concert

Rolex has released a new Vienna Philharmonic edition of its beloved Oyster Perpetual watch, in celebration of a 15-year exclusive partnership between the two organizations. The Swiss watch manufacturing company has been sponsoring Vienna's iconic New Year's Concert since 2009.

The watch features a green dial with hand-colored images of the violin, seen from different angles. At the New Year's Concert, several performers wore the watch — including pianist Yuja Wang and mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli.

Rolex will sponsor several other Vienna Philharmonic performances in 2024, including a concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall on March 1; the Summer Night Concert on the grounds of Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace on June 7; a concert at Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional de Música on October 1; at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris on October 5; and at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), the supreme palace of performing arts in China, in Beijing on November 4 and 5.

Rolex also runs a scheme called the Perpetual Arts Initiative, which offers partnerships with artists including Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, French tenor Benjamin Bernheim, Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel, Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez, German tenor Jonas Kaufmann, English-Italian conductor Sir Antonio Pappano, Welsh bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel, Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón, Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva, Yuja Wang, from China, Hélène Grimaud, from France, Canadian singer and Grammy Award-winner Michael Bublé and British-American sitarist Anoushka Shankar.