"I am in Disbelief!?!!"

"I am in Disbelief!?!!"

PBS Antiques Roadshow Rolex Daytona Find

"I'm in disbelief." #antiquesroadshow #rolex pic.twitter.com/F7PZeoyxTD

— Antiques Roadshow (@RoadshowPBS) June 18, 2018

Rolex Founder...Hans Wilsdorf...

...Rolex Founder...

Hans Wilsdorf

April 30, 1946

This photo of Rolex Founder, Hans Wilsdorf was taken 73 years ago on April 30, 1946 in Geneva, Switzerland, when Hans was 65 years old and it was discovered by Philip. The thing that is so strikingly unusual about this image is it is the very first image I have seen of Hans Wilsdorf out in nature wearing sports clothes. In other words, he is wearing a sweater and ascot, as apposed to his normal attire of a suit with a necktie.

Brian Kelly Story Preview...

Story Preview

Brian Kelly

I am working on a really profound article that involves Brian Kelly who is pictured below wearing his Rolex Submariner Reference 5512 or 5513 with pointed crown guards, and I though I would share this great preview image with you. Full story coming soon!!!

Macro Shot of the Day: Rolex YACHT-MASTER II

Rolex YACHT-MASTER II

Tiger Woods Wins 2019 Masters Tournament

Tiger Woods

Wins 2019 Masters Tournament

Tiger Woods roared back when he won the 2019 Masters Golf Tournament today in Augusta, Georgia and won the famous green coat!! This was Tiger Woods 81st Career PGA Tour Win (2nd Most of All-time) makes Tiger Woods a 5-Time-Masters Champion, which puts him in 2nd place for most career wins. Most profoundly, this means Tiger Woods broke the record for most year between Masters wins at 14 years in-between!!!

Tiger wore his Rolex DEEPSEA SEA-DWELLER D-Blue after he won the Masters Tournament, as we see on his wrist in the videos above. 

The D-Blue SEA-DWELLER features an unusual horizontal gradient to faces from blue above to black below, and it also has the DEEPSEA dial designation in a large green font. It is kind of profound if you think about it that the only two brands that didn't abandon Tiger after the challenges he went through years ago were Rolex and Nike.

Penso che un sogno cosi non ritorni mai piu Mi dipingevo le mani e la faccia di blu Poi d'improvviso venivo dal vento rapito E incominciavo a volare nel cielo infinito
Volare, oh oh E contare, oh oh oh oh Nel blu, dipinto di blu Felice di stare lassu E volavo, volavo felice piu in alto del sole ed ancora piu su Mentre il mondo pian piano spariva lontano laggiu Una musica dolce suonava soltanto per me

Phillips Auction House May 11-12 2019

Phillips Auction House

May 11-12 2019 Auction

Phillips Auction House recently put their new May 2019 Auction catalog online and they have some AMAZING historical Rolex pieces as seen below!!! This first image is from Lot 68 which features this magnificent 38MM Rolex Triple Date Moonphase Reference 8171 in yellow gold.

This second image is from Lot 213, which features this 1958 Rolex Submariner Reference 5508 with a gilt dial and red triangle with pearl intact. 

Next we see Lot 56 which features a 1960 Rolex Triple Date Chronograph Reference 6236 which is the most complicated Rolex model ever made.

You can view the lots online on Phillips website from this upcoming auction, and also you can check out a PDF version of their amazing upcoming Geneva Watch Auction: NINE catalog as well.

COSMOGRAPH DAYTONA 1971 Rolex Japanese Mystery Brochure Front and Back Discovered

COSMOGRAPH DAYTONA

1971 Rolex Japanese Mystery

Brochure Front and Back Discovered

Another Rolex Daytona history mystery is being solved with the images below thanks to renowned horological expert and author, John Goldberger who sent in these higher-resolution images of a 1971 Rolex Cosmograph Daytona brochure front and rear covers. John Goldberger wrote the book titled "100 Superlative Rolex Watches" and I conducted a three hour podcast with John back in 2008.

When I first saw this image previously as he had posted it on Instagram as seen below, the image showed the very part of back page still attached at the top, so I could see part of the cityscape background, which looked like Monte Carlo, Monaco to me. 

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Original Rolex Japanese leaflet with Cosmograph Daytona, ref. 6241, 1972. #rolex #cosmograph #daytona #paulnewman #japan #f1 #ferrari #johngoldberger

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Below is a copy of the original image that John Goldberger send me. Notice the version on his Instagram account  has the racetrack blurred into the cityscape, whereas with the image below we see the folding crease from the brochure.

Now that we have clear view of the back of the 1971 Japanese Rolex Cosmograph Daytona brochure we see it features a Rolex Airplane flying over Geneva! If you look closely you will notice the green airplane says ROLEX on the top of both wings, as well as on the side, and on the tail we see the Rolex Crown Logo!

Christie's Rare Watches Auction May 13th in Geneva Catalog

Christie's Rare

Watches Auction

May 13th in Geneva Catalog

Christies will be auctioning some beautiful Rolex watches next month in Geneva, Switzerland and you can see the cover of the catalog below which features a beautiful Rolex Moonphase [Reference 6062].