President Obama's Secret Service Watch...

President Elect Barack Obama's Secret Service Watch

According to OnTheDash.com:

"On the occasion of his 46th birthday, on August 4, 2007, Barack Obama received a gift from the Secret Service agents who had been responsible for protecting him during his Presidential campaign–a large, black-dialed chronograph bearing the shield of the Secret Service. This chronograph was purchased by the Secret Service agents in the Secret Service employees' store, located at Secret Service headquarters in Washington, D.C."

Here is a close up shot of the watch with the Sercret Service Logo. Click on it for more detail.

To learn much more about President Obama's watches click here.

The Tampa GTG is coming up on Nov. 15....>>>>>>>

Just a reminder from Milos & Leo (The Idle Swede):

The Tampa GTG is November 15....(Only 7 Days Away!!!!!)

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Another NASA Astronaut Wearing Rolex On The International Space Station...

Rolex On The International Space Station

The first article and podcast I did regarding a NASA astronaut who wore a Rolex on the International Space Station was with Dr. Leroy Chaio who flew on 3 Space Shuttle missions and was the commander of International Space Station Expedition 10. 

The images below are of Dave Williams on the International Space Station aboard STS-118 from 2007 and he is sporting his Rolex Submariner.

Dave Williams is pictured above and below on the far left wearing a red shirt wearing and his Rolex Submariner. Alvin Drew is pictured standing up in the back. Commander, Scott Kelley is pictured bottom left.

The following images are fascinating and might make good desktop wallpaper.

I would like to thank John Towns for sending in the photos of Dave Williams on STS-118.

The All New Rolex Day-Date II

There is a New President

Wesley from Holland took these fantastic photos of the all new 41mm Rolex Day-Date II also know as The Rolex President. Rolex introduced this all-new from the ground up Rolex as part of the celebration of its 100th Anniversary. These first two photos are great and have a nice Autumn vibe.

The Rolex-Date date historically, since its inception in the 1950s has always been 36mm. Some people think the 36mm has become a little too small and others think it is just perfect as is. Rolex is moving forward by making the all new Day-Date II 41mm, which is bigger than a Daytona or Submariner.

Living Large

This next set of wrist shots really gives you an idea of how the watch wears. Like many readers of Jake's Rolex Watch Blog, I have not seen this all-new Rolex in person so these photos Wesley took give us a very good idea of how the watch wears.

To my design mind the all-new 41mm Day-Date II takes a little getting used to. In some ways it looks like a caricature of the 36mm version, but upon close inspection and analysis I notice this is likely a good thing. The fluted bezel it significantly wider and taller on the Day-Date II, than it was on the Day-Date. 

By making the Bezel taller and wider it gives it more of an upside-down recess peanut butter cup look, but that design characteristic is trademark Rolex and I think they did a great job implementing it. In other words, this watch is distinctively Rolex.

Making the Case for the New President

I think another reason Rolex went so much larger is because the Rolex President has always been perceived as a leadership watch. A watch worn by men who tell other men what to do, and its new size gives it more largesse. It looks more abundant, more visible, thus more striking.

This particular watch has an interesting monotone dial in the sense the arabic numerals are black like the dial so from any kind of distance it almost looks like there are no indices.

All in all, I think I like the new Rolex Day-Date, but I have not tried one on yet. In this case (pun intended) bigger seems better. Will the new President by better than the last one? It appears that way, but only time will tell. It looks very promising though...