“As a historian with a lifelong obsession with watches, I was delighted and excited to be given unique access to the Rolex archives and flattered and honoured to be invited to set down in print the first authorized accounts of timepieces that have helped shape history,” Foulkes said in a statement.

The Crown’s Submariner, its flagship dive watch, is getting an authorized tome—the first in a series around Rolex’s most important models.