Alex Jenkins takes a look at the remarkable association that the Swiss luxury watchmaker has forged with game since Arnold Palmer first slipped on a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Day-Date chronometer nearly 50 years ago
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Written by Alex Jenkins
Photography by AFP
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