Today, Steef notified the Dutch RolexForum members about a website that covers diving watches and diving stories. The owner of the website, Michael O’Leary, military and commercial (COMEX) diver, is also a watch aficionado. Most interesting is his story about the Rolex COMEX ref. 16600 Sea Dweller and the fact that he dives with his rolex replica uk from 1972. It all started with his Rolex Submariner ref. 5513 that he got for his 21st birthday in 1978, and from there on, he built this impressive collection of (vintage and COMEX) Rolex watches.
We were discussing the fact if it was ‘ justified’ for a [regular] person to have a COMEX watches, while these watches clearly need to be deserved (read Michael’s story about his). Would I feel comfortable wearing a COMEX Sea Dweller while bumping into a group of COMEX divers wearing theirs? I wouldn’t want to explain why I am wearing a watch of one of ‘them’, while the only water my watch have seen is that of a swimming pool and the shower.
On the other hand, the COMEX Rolex must have gotten into the circuit of watch traders at one point. Who’s to blame? In the meanwhile, I am the happy owner of a regular [neo vintage] Rolex Sea Dweller with a tritium dial and pin holes in its lugs.
It seems to be some kind of accepted spin-off hobby by Rolex collectors world-wide, spotting Rolex watches on the wrist of famous actors, singers, models, presidents, sports people, and soccer player’s wives (see picture below). This spin-off activity can therefore be pretty exhausting, as most famous personalities actually wear (gold) Rolex watches. I wonder if not spotting a Rolex on a movie star’s wrist isn’t going to be a better challenge.
Results of this spin-off hobby can be found on the German Rolex Forum (also known as Das Rolex Forum or www.r-l-x.de). They have (currently) 189 pages of pictures with famous people wearing a Rolex. The hublot replica uk Forum has only 26 pages, but remember that we are only a small country of course. Then we have Jake’s Rolex Blog, a great piece of on-line work where he discusses Rolex watches worn by various famous people (both professional and non-professional).
For example, Steve McQueen as well as Lindsay Lohan were spotted (but I couldn’t find an appropriate picture of her) wearing Rolex watches. Also, it seems that Jennifer Aniston – who’s [currently] together with singer and Rolex collector John Mayer -has been spotted several times with different Rolex watches. Also, a number of Apollo astronauts have been http://www.palenterprisesllc.com/aaa-tag-heuer-watches-uk.html spotted with their Rolex GMT-Master during missions. Besides their official time piece, the famous Omega Speedmaster Professional, they had a lot of love for the Rolex GMT-Master. There are also quite a few pictures (screen stills) of actors wearing a Rolex in movies. What to think of Robert Redford in all the president’s men, wearing a Rolex? Or Uma Thurman wearing a fake Rolex in Kill Bill vol. 2. These lengthy forum discussion about ‘legends’ wearing a Rolex, are full of famous and less famous people. Even if there is only a glimpse of a Rolex under one of their cuffs. Continue reading "Today Results of accepted Rolex watches by collectors world-wide"
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