CIA Director and former U.S. General Petraeus: Commander of U.S. Central Command

CIA Director

David Petraeus

Stainless Steel Rolex Submariner

David Petraeus is the current Director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. He was appointed CIA director on September 7, 2011, and he has been wearing his trademark Rolex Submariner for many years.

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Former U.S. Army General Petraeus

Commander of U.S. Central Command

Modern Military Submariner

Prior to becoming the Director of the CIA, David Howell Petraeus was a U.S. Army 4-star General and the Commander of the United States Central Command. General Petraeus has an extremely distinguished career and he was one of many Top Military Leaders to wear a Rolex.

This first photo appeared in Vanity Fair magazine and shows General Petraeus' Rolex Submariner with Oyster Bracelet. You can learn more and see more photos of General Petraeus in an article I wrote about Rolex On Top Military Leaders.

U.S. Central Command

Geographic Scope

The United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) is a theater-level Unified Combatant Command unit of the U.S. armed forces and its area of responsibility is in the Middle East, including Egypt and Central Asia as we see in the map below:

Rolex Hotness: Kim Kardashian...

Keeping Up With 

The Kardashian's

It's a Rolex Family Affair

Back on October 14, 2007, Ryan Seacrest produced  a show named "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" which recently premiered in its 19th season. Kim Kardashian is obviously the lead alpha-female/heroin on the show which has chronicled the ups and downs of her life for two decades. One of the most interesting aspects of the show is how many of her family members are Rolex fans, and that's the reason I am finally putting together this fascinating story.

Kim Kardashian is pictured above with her husband Kanye West who has been a big Rolex fan for a long time (more on Kanye's Rolex passion later in this story :-) Let's start with taking a look at Kim Kardashian and her Rolex collection. This first photo shows Kim many years ago rocking a bejeweled stainless steel Rolex Datejust.

It didn't take Kim much time upgrade to wearing a bejeweled yellow gold Rolex Day-Date as seen below.

–Wearing My Rolex–

All I want to do is tell you I love you

That's when I start promising the world

To a brand new girl I don't even know yet

Next thing she's wearing my Rolex

Kim's Grandmother is pictured below also wearing a Rolex!!!

Vintage Rolex Daytona From Bas in the Netherlands

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

Vintage Rolex Daytona From Bas in the Netherlands

James Cameron On Why How The Titanic Sank

James Cameron

How And Why The Titanic Sank

If you have been following the 100th Anniversary of the Titanic sinking on Jake's Rolex World you will enjoy this. James Cameron is like a modern Jacques-Yves Cousteau!!! Just a few weekends ago, James Cameron set a world record for a solo dive!!! First we start with a shot of James Cameron on the Colbert Report, and he is wearing his now trademark Rolex DEEPSEA SEA-DWELLER.

Here is the funny footage from the Colbert Report.





To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, James Cameron recently re-introduced his amazing Titanic movie in 3D, and he just has a special on the Nationional Geographic Channel that very carefully analyzed exactly how the Titanic sank. Here is a fascinating part of it.


Here is the official trailer for the completely redone 3D version of Titanic.

The photo below of James Cameron was taken 15 years ago when he was directing Titanic back in 1997. Notice he is wearing his trademark Rolex Submariner.

Dr. Robert Ballard The Ultimate U.S. Navy DEEP-SEA Discovery

The Complete History Of

The Rolex Submariner & SEA-DWELLER

Rolex's Conquest Of The Ocean

Part 16: Dr. Robert Ballard

The Ultimate U.S. Navy DEEP-SEA Discovery

Finding The Titanic

"The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world–combined."

–Dr. Robert Ballard

This week marked the centennial of the launching of the Titanic, which occurred on May 31, 1911, so I thought it would be appropriate to share this amazing story with you.

In 2011 we will be exploring some amazing Rolex history and the career of U.S. Navy Commander, Dr. Robert Ballard, which is mind-boggling. In this story we will learn all about his phenomenal career achievements including how he discovered the Titanic in its underwater DEEP-SEA grave 25 years ago. As a matter of fact, the 25th Anniversary of his discovering the RMS Titanic is coming up on July 1st, 1985.

Dr. Robert Ballard is pictured above wearing his Rolex Submariner

Dr. Robert Ballard is featured below in this fascinating vintage Rolex Submariner magazine advertisement.

In this upcoming story on Dr. Robert Ballard's career, we will explore the most amazing luxury liner that hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912 and sank. The RMS Titanic story is truly epic.

You must click on this image of the Titanic for much more detail

As a side note, director James Cameron made a movie named Titanic which is the highest grossing movie in history bringing in $1.8 Billion at the box office. James Cameron wears a Rolex Submariner and the character in the movie played by Bill Paxton who plays Robert Ballard's character also wears a Rolex Submariner.

In this story we will learn all about how Dr. Robert Ballard found the RMS Titanic and we will even learn about the never before documented connection between the Titanic and the U.S. Navy SEA-LAB.

In this amazing story we will explore the actual Titanic wreckage and see some fascinating photos.

Dr. Robert Ballard

60 Minutes Interview (2 Parts)

The Complete History Of

The Rolex Submariner & SEA-DWELLER

Rolex's Conquest Of The Ocean

Table Of Contents

• Chapter 1: Genesis

• Chapter 2: The Perpetual Oyster & The Mermaid

• Chapter 3: Panerai & The Italian Royal Navy (The First Rolex Diving Watch)

• Chapter 4: A Brief History Of Diving

• Chapter 5: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Emile Gagnan & The Aqua Lung

• Chapter 6: The Birth Of The Rolex Submariner: Breaking The Rolex Design Code

• Chapter 7: The Rolex Submariner Through Time: The Evolution Of The Rolex Revolution.

• Chapter 8: The Birth Of The Rolex DEEP-SEA: Jacques Piccard & Captain Don Walsh aboard the U.S. Navy Bathyscaph Trieste Set The All-Time World Depth Record.

• Chapter 9: The First SEA-DWELLER's: Doctor Bond. U.S. Navy Project Genesis and Jacques Cousteau & Project Conshelf.

• Chapter 10: The Birth Of The Rolex SEA-DWELLER: Bob Barth, Scott Carpenter & U.S. Navy SEA-LAB 

• Chapter 11: Henri Delauze & COMEX

• Chapter 12: Dr. George Bass [The Father Of Underwater Archeology]

• Chapter 13: Dr. Sylvia Earle: The First Female Aquanaut

• Chapter 14: Dr. Phil Nuytten [Pioneering DEEP-SEA Explorer: The Real Aquaman]

• Chapter 15: Dr. Joe MacInnis: From U.S. Navy SEA-LAB to The Titanic Discovery Team

• Chapter 16: Dr. Robert Ballard: The Ultimate U.S. Navy DEEP-SEA Discovery Of The 20th Century–Finding The Titanic 

• NEXT >>> Chapter 17: Ralph White [Explorer and National Geographic Cameraman] Discovering and Exploring The Titanic Chapter The Titanic

• Chapter 18: The Return of The Rolex DEEP-SEA 

• Chapter 19: The Return of The Rolex Single SEA-DWELLER: 50th Anniversary Jubilee Model

All-New Rolex Submariner No-Date Reference 114060

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

All-New Rolex Submariner No-Date

Reference 114060

...Rolex Macro Shot Of The Day... Meiwenti's Yellow Gold Rolex Day-Date

...Rolex Macro Shot Of The Day...

Meiwenti's Yellow Gold Rolex Day-Date

...Roberto's Rolex Studio Shot Of The Day...

For The Love Of The Sub

...Roberto's Rolex Studio Shot Of The Day...

Yellow Gold Vintage Rolex Submariner with Nipple Incices

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche Founder of Porsche Design Belongs To The Ages

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

Founder of Porsche Design

Belongs To The Ages

I just put up a story on Jake's Car World about F.A. Porsche. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, better known as F.A. Porsche passed away yesterday at the age of 76. He was the grandson of the founder of Porsche, Ferdinand Porsche. F.A. Porsche was a revolutionary German industrial designer, and among other things he designed the original Porsche 911. His father Ferry Porsche was responsible for designing its predecessor, the Porsche 356.

F.A. Porsches is pictured above with his 911 Targa design, and with his Porsche 911 which he designed in 1962, and presented at the Frankfurt Auto show in 1963, as a 1964 model.

Porsche Design One Watch

F.A. Porsche is Father of The Black Watch

So what does F.A. Porsche have to do with Rolex? In the late 1960s the Porsche family decided that nobody with the Porsche last name should be allowed to work for Porsche. They were concerned that a family member with the same last name could do more damage than good, so F.A. Porsches decided to start his own industrial design company named Porsche Design. 

In 1973 F.A. Porsche designed and began selling his ALL BLACK Porsche Design Chronograph, which was the first watch made out of matte black chromed steel. The Porsche Design Chronograph used the Valjoux 7750 movement. F.A. Porsche not only made the first black watch, but he also made the watch much larger than the standard diameter at the time.

F.A. Porsche is pictured below in his design studio, sporting his trademark Porsche Design Chrono I "black-out" watch.

Race car legend, Mario Andretti is pictured below in the early 1970s sporting his Porsche Design Chrono 1 watch. Today there are many brands, like Pro-Hunter and Bamford and Sons that coat Rolex watches with a black PVD coating, but it was F.A. Porsches that started this trend back in the early 1970s. In the future, I will publish much more detail on F.A. Porsche, and share some really interesting insight with you...

One of the obvious questions is whether F.A. Porsche wore or was inspired by the Rolex Daytona Chronograph? I am not certain, but in this photo of F.A. Porsche taken before he designed his Porsche Design watch, we see him wearing white gold Rolex Oyster Quartz Reference 5100 bracelet. 

Tiger Woods

Rolex DEEPSEA

2012 Masters Press Conference

Augusta National Golf Club