No brand does flashy gold watches quite like Rolex does. How many of us have childhood memories of older relatives wearing a glistening yellow-gold Rolex, understanding that that shiny timepiece signaled something important? For me, it was my grandfather’s cousin, whose gold Day-Date not only entered the room before he did, but because he wore it super loose, it also always had a habit of popping out from whatever kind of sleeves he was sporting that day. I often imagined his watch dropping into the fondue we regularly shared as a family, fishing it out with my cheese-dripping trident, and…