Introduced in 1945 alongside the Air-Lion, Air-Giant, and Air-Tiger to honour the Royal Air Force pilots of the Battle of Britain in the Second World War, the Rolex Air-King is the sole survivor of the Air series. Since 2016, the Air-King has been instantly identifiable by its prominent minutes scale and striking yellow and green accents on a black dial – a design inspired by the dash clock that Rolex made in 2014 for Bloodhound SSC, a British supersonic car manufacturer, to set a new world land speed record.