At the start, $20k of sales in a week was the benchmark with $10k earning you the consolation prize of an Hermès tie but soon the stakes were upped to $25k a week for four weeks in a row. From that one Bulova to some Seikos and settling in with Rolex Air-Kings by 1977, watches were always a part of the incentive program. From there, the gift for high sales figures incentive program was born at Domino's Pizza.

'Turn in a twenty-thousand-dollar sales week' and it's yours Monaghan said to the admirer. In his 1986 autobiography entitled Pizza Tiger, Monaghan recalls one of his franchisees lusting over the founder's personal Bulova with the company logo printed on the dial. The massive growth of Domino's Pizza has always been due to a franchise model. Luckily, Monaghan opted to keep the logo to three dots, otherwise, our Air-King here would sport quite the dotted dial in what we imagine would be a difficult watch to read the time on. By 1983 Domino's had opened its 1000th store. In those early years, when there were only three locations, founder Tom Monaghan intended to add a dot to his Domino's logo for every store he opened. It all started with a single location in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1960. Selling over four billion dollars worth of pizza and other Italian, or arguably Italian-American, cuisine per year, Domino's Pizza is one of the most recognizable fast-food chains in the world. Most notable to collectors today are the corporate-dialed watches found in this reference, including Winn-Dixie Air-Kings and, of course, the Dominos Air-King, like the one we have here. 1016 Explorer at 36mm, and aimed to serve as an everyday, reliable, and understated Rolex. In a 34mm case, the reference was sized under the sport models of the era, the smallest of which being the ref. 5500 Air-King was offered from 1957 to the late 1980s. Serving the purpose of the entry-level Rolex, the ref.

Suspenseful, menacing, and laced with black humor, King's picaresque tale is full of surprisesand suspense, told at the pace of a thriller and with the richness of a restored painting.Why This Watch Matters The perfect mix of nostalgia, a bit of irony, and Rolex class. Moving from masquerade balls in London to the magnificent and mysterious opera houses of Venice, Cautley is drawn into a web of intrigue and murder spun by the seductive and tempestuous Lady Beauclair. Ross King's delightful, Rabelaisian novel recounts the adventures of young George Cautley, an aspiring artist who, as he makes his way through London's high society, finds that nothing is as it seems and everyone wears a disguise. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers.

Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear.

Domino by Ross King