1967 Mexico Rolex Ad for Rolex Chronograph

1967 Mexico Rolex Ad

Rolex Chronograph 

This is a really cool vintage Rolex magazine ad which was published in Mexico in 1967. The interesting thing about this ad is the Rolex Chronograph has no tachymeter scale on the bezel or on the dial. My best guess is that this is a Rolex Chronograph Reference 6238.

Academy Award Winning Director: Alfonso Cuarón

2019 Academy Awards 

...Academy Award Winning Director...

Alfonso Cuarón

Rolex Mentor & Protégé Member

Alfonso Cuarón was nominated for five Academy Awards and won three at the 91st Oscars. Alfonso won the awards for Best Director, Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography. His movie "Roma" was nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Rolex congratulated Cuarón on its Instagram account as seen below.

Alfonso Cuarón is a member of Rolex's Mentor & Protégé Arts initiative which creates valuable relationships between talented mentors and protégés. Alfonso Cuarón recently mentored Chaitanya Tamhane who is a young filmmaker from India. Cuarón and Tamhane are pictured below on stage at a Rolex Mentor & Protégé event that took place last year in Berlin, Germany.

Can you imagine being an aspiring young director and being mentored by a director who has won so many Academy Awards!?!!

You can watch the trailer for Alfonso Cuarón's Academy Award winning movie "Roma" above, as well as his acceptance speech for Best Director below. 

Alfonso Cuarón

Won 2014 Academy Award For Best Director

Rolex Submariner

Alfonso Cuarón won the Oscar for Best Director in 2014, and the photo below shows him at the Academy Awards, and you see he is wearing his Rolex Submariner. Alfonso Cuarón's movie "Gravity" swept the 2014 Oscars by winning a total of seven Academy Awards, including Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score.

Lee Trevino & Jack Nicklaus

Lee Trevino & Jack Nicklaus

Two Golf Legends Wearing Rolex

Lee Trevino is considered to be one of the great golfers of the fourth quarter of the twentieth century. Lee won the U.S. open in 1968 and 1971, and he won The Open Championship in 1971 and 1972. He is pictured below with fellow golf legend, Jack Nicklaus. Lee Trevino is of Mexican American descent and is considered to be an icon and role model in the Mexican American community.

The photo below shows Lee Travino and Jack Nicklaus together at the 1971 U.S. Open. Lee Travino duked-it-out with Jack Nicklaus in an 18 hole playoff, and prevailed.

It appears Lee Trevino is wearing a stainless steel Datejust in the photo above and a GMT Master or Submariner in the photo below.

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.