Saturday, September 17, 2011

Rolex Macro Shot of the Day: Green Is Good...Ya, Ya!!!

Rolex Macro Coronet Shot Of The Week
An LV Submariner Coronet Up-Close

This LV Coronet Shot is great. Rolex started adding the etched Rolex Coronet to their synthetic sapphire crystals several years ago. It is always located in the six o'clock position and looks really cool.


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...Rolex Food Shot Of The Day... A Black Netherlands LV Submariner

...Rolex Food Shot Of The Day...

A Black Netherlands LV Submariner

Marco is a reader of Jake's Rolex World and he is from the Netherlands. He sent in this photo of his Rolex Submariner witch a note saying he is just about to celebrate his 27th birthday, as well as his first year anniversary on his Rolex warranty card ;-) Marco also mentioned his LV Submariner is his only Rolex and he likes it with the black bezel insert...


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New Rolex CEO Appointed: Gian Riccardo Marini

...The Rolex Torch Has Been Passed...

New Rolex CEO Appointed

Rolex Coolness: Gian Riccardo Marini

Rolex Geneva announced today the appointment of a new CEO to replace Bruno Meier. Gian Riccardo Marini is 64 years old and was promoted to the position of CEO for Rolex Geneva, from being the CEO of Rolex Italy. Gian Riccardo becomes only the 5th CEO to govern Rolex over the last 106 years. If you want to learn much more about the history of Rolex first CEO, Hans Wilsdorf you should check out his story.


Gian Riccardo Marini is pictured below in Italy with Elena Ambrosiadou, who is the current owner of the Maltese Falcon mega-yacht.




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Rolex Studio Shot Of The Day: Rolex DEEP-SEA Special

Rolex Studio Shot Of The Day
Rolex DEEP-SEA Special

You can learn everything about the history of the Rolex DEEP-SEA Special in this article I wrote.

...The Greatest Cyclist In History... Rolex Coolness: Lance Armstrong

...The Greatest Cyclist In History...

Rolex Coolness: Lance Armstrong
Cover of May 2011 Bicycling Magazine
Pepsi Rolex GMT Master

This is a pretty iconic photo if you think about it. Lance Armstrong wearing his trademark ARMSTRONG Band on one wrist with his Pepsi GMT Master on the other wrist.


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All-New Rolex Two-Tone Yacht-Master II

All-New Rolex Two-Tone Yacht-Master II
BaselWorld 2011 Introduction

Rolex recently showed off this all-new two Rolex Yacht-Master II. This watch is not really my cup of tea, but it has an interesting design.


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Rolex Hotness: Caprice Bourret-Two-Tone Rolex Submariner

Rolex Hotness: Caprice Bourret
Super-Leggy-Model
[Stainless Daytona & Two-Tone Rolex Submariner]

Caprice Bourret is one of the great Supper-Leggy-Models and she loves and wears man different models of men's sport Rolex watches as we will see in the future.





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...Rolex Underwater Shot Of The Day... Rolex DEEP-SEA

...Rolex Underwater Shot Of The Day...

Rolex DEEP-SEA


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Ariel Adams Interview Omega Coolness: Stephen Urquhart CEO of Omega Watches

Ariel Adams Interview
Omega Coolness: Stephen Urquhart
CEO of Omega Watches

My pal Ariel Adams is the publisher of A Blog To Read and earlier this year, at BaselWorld he had the opportunity to interview Stephen Urquhart, who is the CEO of Omega Watches. I really enjoyed the interview and I was extremely impressed with Stephen Urquhart depth of knowledge, and he certainly is a brilliant conversationalist.

Toward the end of the interview, Stephen Urquhart speaks about Bertrand Piccard's exciting project to build and fly a solar powered airplane around the world.


...Supreme Italian Style... Omega Coolness: Gianni Agnelli Ploprof Sea-Master Professional

...Supreme Italian Style...

Omega Coolness: Gianni Agnelli
Ploprof Sea-Master Professional

Earlier this week we learned that Gian Riccardo Marini would be taking over as the new CEO of Rolex in Geneva. This is probably and excellent choice, in that if you study photos of him, you see he has a great sense of classic style. Of course, Gian Riccardo Marini is Italian, and everybody knows Italy is renowned for being perhaps the most stylish country in the world.

Earlier today, I put up a fascinating video interview of Stephen Urquhart, who is the CEO of Omega, which made me think this would be an excellent opportunity to take a look at one of the most stylish Italian men in modern history, Gianni Agnelli.

In this photo taken in 1979 we see billionaire, business tycoon, Gianni Agnelli in St. Moritz and he is sporting his Omega Ploprof Seamaster. Gianni Agnelli is renowned for not only being super-stylish, but for also wearing his watches around the outside of his shirt sleeve. A few weeks ago on Jake's Patek Philippe World, I published another story on Gianni Agnelli sporting his Patek Philippe World Time watch.


As legend has it, Omega developed the Omega PloProf with COMEX and Jacques Cousteau. Essentially, the Omega PloProf Seamaster Professional was developed to compete with the Rolex SEA-DWELLER. Omega formally launched the PloProf in 1970 after 4 years of research and development.

Omega discontinued the PloProf in 1979, and several years ago, the brought the model back to life and named it the Omega SeaMaster Ploprof 1200M–as seen in the two photos below. To learn more about the history of the Omega Ploprof there is a great site dedicated to it named Ploprof.com.


Here is another cool shot of the modern Omega Ploprof with a safety-orange rubber band on it. It has a very sporty, aquatic look to it. I still miss Flipper Fridays ;-(


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Rolex Triple Date Moonphase Reference 6062...

Rolex Triple Date Moonphase
Reference 6062


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Rolex Coolness: Eric Clapton-Yellow Gold Rolex Day-Date Ad

...Rolex Super Coolness...


Eric Clapton
A Brilliant Musical Career With Rolex Keeping His Time
Eric Clapton has enjoyed an amazing musical career. He is the only three-time Rock and Roll Hall of fame inductee, as a solo artist, as well as a member of the Yardbirds, as well as Cream. Eric Clapton is arguably one of the most influential and successful guitarists of all time.


Eric Clapton is a vintage Rolex collector as well as being a Rolex Ambassador. In this first picture we see Eric Clapton sporting his Paul Newman Rolex Daytona on a Fatstrap, the way Paul Newman wore his.

Just for frame of reference, I thought I would share this photo of Paul Newman wearing his trademark Exotic Dial Daytona on a Fatstrap. If you compare the photo above and below you see that Eric Clapton's Paul Newman Daytona is absolutely true to form.



Rolex Coolness: Eric Clapton
Yellow Gold Rolex Day-Date Ad




Rolex Coolness: Eric Clapton
50th Anniversary Rolex GV Milgauss





Clapton Sporting a Rolex Submariner


Riding With The King
Eric Calpton with B.B. King. Eric is wearing his Submariner and B.B. King is wearing his trademark yellow gold Rolex President which is not visible in this picture. B.B. Kings Rolex President is as much a part of his kit as his guitar–Lucille.



Speaking of Eric Clapton and B.B. King, here they are pictured above with John Mayer, and they are all wearing Rolex watches. B.B. King, Eric Clapton and John Mayer are considered to be the greatest guitarist of their respective generations.

Of course when B.B. King plays his trademark Gibson Lucille (Model ES 355) he wears his trademark Yellow Gold Rolex Day-Date President.

In this photo Clapton is also wearing a Day Date and John Mayer is wearing one of his vintage Rolex Explorer II watches with the orange hand.


Eric's Great Buddy

Talk about a Mentor and Protege...Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton at a Crossroads Charity event. Crossroads is Eric Clapton's charity organization.

Buddy Guy is one of the greatest Blues and Rock guitarist that ever lived. If it was not for Buddy Guy's early innovation on the guitar playing style on the guitar there never would have been a Hendrix.

Buddy does not just play the guitar, he completely dominates it like I have NEVER seen anybody else do.



Eric Clapton's Rolex Watches At Auction

Eric Clapton was one of the first celebrities to get into collection vintage Rolex watches. Over the years he has auctioned many of them and donated the benefits to his charity foundation. This Stainless Steel Rolex Daytona set a world watch auction record a few years ago by selling for $505,000.

The watch is considered to be very rare because it has an "Albino" dial.

Eric Clapton's Albino Daytona


Eric Clapton once owned this Extremely Rare Rolex watch dubbed "The Yachtmaster Daytona which was a Prototype Rolex and was never offered to the public. It is fascinating to see how Rolex experimented with the nautical theme in the 60s and early 70s be creating a 39MM Yachtmaster. Of course, Rolex did not bring the current Yachtmaster to market until decades later.

Eric Clapton's Rolex Yacht-Master prototype sold at a Christie's Auction in 2003 for $125,000, and Eric Clapton donated the proceeds to his Crossroads Foundation. His Rolex Yacht-Master is picture below and appears courtesy of Christie's Auction House.


Here is another photo of Eric Clapton's Rolex Yacht-Master Prototype Reference 6239/6242. There are only 3 known examples of the Rolex Yacht-Master Prototype. The first is this one that was owned by Eric Clapton. The second one is owned by John Goldberger, and the last one is owned by Rolex and kept in their private collection and it has a special bezel [Reference 6542].



Lume Shot Of The Day Sascha's DEEP-SEA Darkness

Lume Shot Of The Day
Sascha's DEEP-SEA Darkness


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Rolex Coolness: Carlos Slim World's Wealthiest Man...

...The $75 Billion Man...

Rolex Coolness: Carlos Slim
World's Wealthiest Man
Stainless Steel Rolex Daytona

Carlos Slim is from Mexico and he is regarded as the wealthiest man on Earth today, with personal holdings worth approximately $75 Billion!!! Carlos is pictured below sporting his stainless steel Rolex Daytona. It is interesting, a quarter century ago, the Rolex President (Day-Date) was considered to be the International Mark Of Success, and in may ways today, the stainless steel Rolex Daytona is considered to by the International Mark Of Success.


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Friday, September 16, 2011

Random Retro Ad 1964 Ford Thunderbird Ad

...Random Retro Ad...

1964 Ford Thunderbird Ad

Am I hallucinating or does it seem like the world was much more elegant, and what happened to American cars!?!?


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Rolex Macro Shot Of The Day Jocke's Pepsi Rolex GMT Master Reference 1675

Rolex Macro Shot Of The Day
Jocke's Pepsi Rolex GMT Master
Reference 1675


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Rolex Coolness: Ashton Kutcher Rolex SEA-DWELLER

Rolex Coolness: Ashton Kutcher
Replaces Charlie Sheen on 2 and a Half Men
White Dial Rolex Milgauss

CBS and Warner Brothers announced today that Ashton Kutcher would be replacing Charlie Sheen on its hit show Two and a Half Men. Ashton Kutcher will not be playing the Role Charlie Sheen played, of Charlie Harper, but he will be playing a new character.


Kutcher is replacing Charlie Sheen, who basically made a complete Jackass out of himself and in doing so gave up lost $2 million per episode he was earning by playing Charlier Harper on 2 and a half men. Charlie Sheen had demanded $3 Million per episode, because he wanted to make $100 Million per year, and CBS passed.

Ashton Kutcher is pictured above wearing his white dial Rolex Milgauss on the Piers Morgan Tonight show recently, and we see Charlie Sheen below, also on the Piers Morgan Tonight Show, when he had one of his meltdowns, wearing a stunningly beautiful Patek Philippe Moonphase.


Charlie Sheen is pictured below, wearing his 3/4 Stainless and Platinum Yacht-Master that he used to wear on the show.








Ashton Kutcher is pictured below with his beautiful wife, Demi Moore





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Roberto's Guilty Pleasure Rolex Submariner 5513 with Guilt Dial

...Rolex Studio Shot Of The Day...

Roberto's Guilty Pleasure
Rolex Submariner 5513 with Guilt Dial


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Rolex Hotness: Princess Madeleine Of Sweden Stainless Steel Rolex Submariner

Rolex Hotness: Princess Madeleine Of Sweden
Stainless Steel Rolex Submariner


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Rolex Macro Shot Of The Day White Gold Rolex Daytona ...Oh The High Art Of It All...


Rolex Macro Shot Of The Day

White Gold Rolex Daytona

...Oh The High Art Of It All...


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Rolex Coolness: Brad Pitt Platinum & Stainless Rolex Yacht-Master

Rolex Coolness: Brad Pitt
Platinum & Stainless Rolex Yacht-Master



The Return Of The Maxi Marker

Since we see Brad Pitt in the photo above rocking his platinum and stainless steel Rolex Yacht-Master, I though I would include this screen grab taken from a past Rolex.com. Cool watch and cool dude!!!! BTW, the platinum and stainless Yacht-Master was the first modern Rolex to bring back the Maxi Markers, and it is still one good looking watch!!!


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