Prince Harry of Wales Stainless Steel Rolex Explorer II

...Rolex Coolness...

Prince Harry 

Stainless Steel "Orange Hand" Rolex Explorer II

Many members of the British Royal family wear and have worn Rolex watches for a long time. Prince Harry of Wales is fourth in line to the crown of the British Throne. He is pictured below rockin' his stainless steel "Orange Hand" Rolex Explorer II with the polar dial. Prince Harry is 33 years old.

Prince Harry's

 Invictus Games 

So what is Prince Harry up to today? Prince Harry is a founder of the Invictus Games, which is like the Olympics for wounded soldiers. Harry being a soldier himself came up with the idea when he was return home from a tour and saw wounded soldiers. Below is the opening speech Prince Harry gave today to kick off the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto, Canada.



Prince Harry is pictured below shaking hands with Captain Trevor Greene, who is a retired soldier that was injured while on active duty in Afghanistan in 2006.

Prince Harry is pictured below with the Australian team at the Invictus Games, giving a pep talk. 

Prince Harry is pictured below yesterday ahead of the opening ceremony for the Invictus Games chatting with United States First Lady, Melania Trump.

Speaking of Melania Trump, I had to include the photo below, which shows Prince Harry's father, Prince Charles in 2005, chatting with Donald Trump and Melania Trump at a Museum of Modern Art reception in New York City. I don't know why I find this photo to be so fascinatingly bizarre!?!! It almost looks like Prince Charles, with a gin and tonic in hand, is looking at The Donald, saying "Whatcha talkin' bout Willis!?!!" I think one of the things that is fascinating about seeing these two men together, is how similar yet different they are. They are both high ranking iconic wealthy public figures that are roughly the same age. Prince Charles non-verbal communication in this photo is priceless, as is future President Trump's swagger and bravado! Melania looks like she is somewhat awestruck...

Prince Harry is pictured yesterday at the Invictus Games shaking hands with Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.

In the video below Prince Harry offers and overview of how he asked his Grandmother, The Queen to support his effort in the Invictus Games after be challenged by President Obama and The former First Lady, Michelle Obama.

Dating Meghan Markle

Prince Harry is dating gorgeous actress Meghan Markle, who is pictured below. Meghan Markle is one of the stars of the TV show Suits, which if you have not seen it, is amazing!!! Also, Meghan is an superb actress...The couple was just seen in public for the first time holding hands as they walked at the Invictus Games...

The thing many of the publications are speculating on is if Harry is going to marry Meghan Markle.

President Obama Surprise Visit

Former U.S. President Obama showed up at the 2017 Invictus Games, and he was wearing a white gold Rolex Cellini on his wrist as seen below.

The video below of Prince Harry at the 2017 Invictus Games will make you giggle, as we see a little toddler  swiping his popcorn, and Harry's response...

The Rolex Crown & Royalty

Rolex is a royal brand in many ways. Particularly with the Rolex trademark crown logo, which adorns the dial and winding crown on every Rolex.

Lord Mountbatten 

Rolex has a longstanding following amongst the British Royalty, going back to Lord Mountbatten, who is Prince Harry's great, great uncle. The photo of Lord Louis Mountbatten below was taken during World War II, and he is wearing his trademark Rolex Oyster Perpetual on a leather strap. Lord Mountbatten is Prince Philip's uncle. Prince Philip is married to Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain.

Next we have the following Rolex ad from 1957 which is clearly referring to Lord Mountbatten who is pictured in the photo below the Rolex ad.

In the two photos below, we see Lord Mountbatten with his family on holiday in Scotland, and notice he is wearing a Rolex Submariner on his wrist.

In am not certain what is going on in the photos, but I think the family buried a hole and he climbed into it, and they filled it in with sand.

André Heiniger 

Former Rolex CEO, André Heiniger is pictured below with his wife, Odette Heiniger, Colonel Gerard Leigh and Price Charles of Wales, who is Prince Harry's father, at the Guards Polo Club in Windsor, U.K.

In this next photo, we see Gérard Souham, André Heiniger, Jan Nelson and Prince Charles.

In the next image we see André Heiniger with HIH The Princess Napoleon at a Polo match.

Arnaud Boetsch 

Prince Harry is pictured below at a Polo match in Sentebale with legendary car racing legend, Sir Jackie Stewart, and Rolex Director of Communications, Arnaud Boetsch.

Prince Harry is obviously into watches, and in the photo below he is checking out Arnaud Boetsch's Rolex. Before joining Rolex, Arnaud Boetsch was a top ranked professional tennis player.

The Amazing Life of a Rolex Prince

Despite having been born and raised in the United States, I recall my whole life being very aware of the British Royal Family. So much so, they almost feel like distant relatives. I imagine since the root of the world "Family" is "Familiar" this makes sense. Since everybody else reading this probably feels the same way, I will let the photos tell the story of Prince Harry's life.

Speaking of a Rolex Prince, Rolex founder, Hans Wilsdorf was of German descent but he was an extreme anglophile, and as a result was a bit obsessed with Royalty—so much so he launched a line of Rolex watches based upon Royal names that included The Rolex Prince, Princess & Queen.

The photos above and below were taken in 1987, and show Prince Charles and Princess Diana with Prince William and Prince Harry.

When Princess Diana died in 1997, it stunned the world. Many people were in a state of disbelief when they heard the news. Princess Diana was a lovely lady and a beautiful woman who made a big difference in many peoples lives. Prince Harry, and his older brother, Prince Andrew have both mentioned on many occasions how inspired they are to this day to continue following in their mother's footsteps...

Prince Harry is pictured below with his brother, Prince William on the far left, and soccer legend, and Tudor Brand Ambassador and overall Rolex fanatic, David Beckham is standing between them.



Prince Harry is pictured below with his brother, Prince William and Princess Kate, and they are attending the Diamond Jubilee Concert. Harry is wearing his Rolex Explorer, and William is wearing the only watch I have ever seen him wear, which is an Omega Sea-Master his mother, Princess Diana gave him as a gift when he was a young man.

Zara Phillips

In the photo above, on the right of Prince Harry we see his cousin, Zara Philipps-Tindal, who is also a Rolex Brand Ambassador. Zara is also pictured below wearing a yellow gold Rolex.

Zara Phillips-Tindal is an accomplished Equestrian and we see her below on her horse at a competitive event.

Zara Phillips has been a Rolex Brand Ambassador for about a decade now. The Zara Phillips Rolex ad below is from 2008.

Zara Phillips is pictured below with fellow Rolex Brand Ambassador, Ana Ivanovic in a recent Rolex Magazine ad.

Zara Phillips is seen below on the far right side with five other female Rolex brand Ambassadors.

Prince Andrew

Prince Harry's uncle, Prince Andrew of York, is pictured above with Harry and The Queen, as well as below on the far left, next to Prince Harry, Prince Charles, and Prince William. Queen Elizabeth in on the right, just out of sight. 

Prince Andrew has worn Rolex watches his whole life, begining with a Rolex Submariner which is seen below in the photo of him with his then fiancé Sarah Ferguson wig us wearing a two-tone Rolex Ladies Datejust.

When Prince Andrew wed Princess Sarah, he showed up on their wedding day wearing a platinum Rolex Day-Date as seen below.

More than a quarter-century later, Prince Andrew is still wearing his Platinum Rolex Day-Date as pictured below.

Prince Harry is pictured below with his father, Prince Charles who he seems to get along well with.

In the following photos be see Prince Harry on active military duty, wearing his stainless steel Rolex Explorer.

Below we see a photos of Prince Harry of Wales as a spectator at the 2014 paralmpics swimming meet, and he is wearing a modern Rolex Explorer Orange Hand, which in my opinion is the coolest contemporary Rolex made today.

Annika Sörenstam Leading Female Golfer

...Rolex Hotness...
Annika Nordqvist Leading Female Golfer

I just noticed Rolex posted the video of Annika Nordqvist winning the Evian Championship!

The videos below are of another Annika specifically Annika Sörenstam who is a  considered to be one of the best female golf players in history.

Jack Nicklaus 1967 Rolex President Day-Date...

Hodinkee Interview
Jack Nicklaus 1967 Rolex President Day-Date
50 Anniversary of Wearing The Same Rolex
Benjamin Clymer from Hodinkee just published an AMAZING interview with golf legend, Jack Nicklaus, who is the widely considered to be one of the greatest golfers of all time.

Jack Nicklaus in a recent photo sporting his yellow gold Rolex Day-Date. Personally, I think yellow gold Rolex watches look really cool on men and women with blond hair, like Jack Nicklaus. Jack Nicklaus won The Open in 1966, 1970 and 1978.

The photo below shows Jack Nicklaus in 1978 after winning The Open, and he is wearing his Rolex Day-Date. 

Jack has been wearing a Rolex Day-Date since 1967, so this year marks the 50th year he has worn Rolex. The photo below of Jack Nicklaus wearing a Rolex Day-Date was taken in 1968, when he was 28 years old. It is the oldest known photo of him wearing a Rolex that I have been able to find. Ironically, prior to wearing his yellow gold Rolex Day-Date for 50 years straight, he never wore a watch.

Apple Watch Beats Rolex!?!!

Apple Watch Beats Rolex!?!!

Apple CEO, Tim Cook took the stage today, an the special Apple Event and announced the new generation of Apple Watch which now has Cellular LTE built in. This means an Apple Watch will be able to make and take phone calls, as well as access data over cellular networks. According to Tim Cook last quarter, Apple watch surpassed Rolex to become the Number 1 watch in the world, as we see in the photos below.

I'm not certain what metric Tim was referring to, whether it was Sales Volume or Quantity of watches sold? This is an interesting claim as Rolex is a privately held company that does not publish its sales volume or sales. I would guess they are making this claim based upon the number of watches shipped, not in dollars, but I might be wrong.

Apple put together the video below that showcases how "Every Apple Watch Tells A Story". I appreciate the Apple watch, but I stopped wearing one a while ago. Why? In the final analysis, the Apple watch was kind of a pain, as I had to always update it, and deal with having to charge it every day. Don't get me wrong, I think there are many, many innovative design characteristic of the Apple Watch, but lately, I have been loving the simplicity of my Single Red SEA-DWELLER, which keeps great time.

The star of the Apple Keynote was the new Apple X iPhone, which is AMAZING and can be seen in the video below:

Amelia Earhart History New Information Changes Game

Another Major Update!

Amelia Earhart History

New Information Changes Game

If you are a reader of Jake's Rolex World, you probably are aware of my coverage of the mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart. 

My coverage began with a documentary that aired on The History Channel, that put forth new evidence that suggested that Amelia Earhart survived a crash landing, along with her navigator Fred Noonan. The documentary put forth the ONI (Office Of Naval Intelligence) image below that was discovered in the National Archives, that claimed Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan and their airplane can be seen int the photo below on a dock in Jaluit Island, in the Marshall Islands in 1937.

Original ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) photo:  PL-Marshall Islands, Jaluit Atoll, Jaluit Island. ONI #14381 Jaluit Harbor.
The newly discovered ONI photo below from the United States National Archives showed a female who looks a lot like Amelia Earhart, as well as a man who looks like her navigator, Fred Noonan. 

If you look closely on the far right side of the photo pictured below, you can see an airplane being towed in the water behind the Japanese towing barge named "Koshu". The airplane when measured to scale is approximately 38 feet long, which is the exact length of Amelia Earhart's airplane.

The documentary put forth the notion, that Amelia Earhart crash landed, and was captured by the Japanese and placed in a prison on Saipan, where she later died in captivity. I covered the documentary and wrote a detailed review, in which I went into detail on how I thought the photo was correct, and provided the smoking gun evidence. 

Two days later, all hell broke loose when National Geographic published an article titled, "Amelia Earhart 'Lost Photograph' Discredited. My whole life I have been a huge fan of National Geographic, but I thought Nat Geo's conclusion was premature and journalistically inaccurate and irresponsible. I was shocked at how a Kangaroo Court was so quickly setup, which instantly judged the photographic evidence as being discredited, as they said it was taken in 1935, so it could not be Amelia Earhart. This is deeply profound as National Geographic is the ultimate photo-centric publication, so it is ironic, how they rushed to judgement about a photos accuracy without really doing any deep research on the photo.

The crazy thing was the sheer volume of bloggers and online publications that supported this conclusion. I just didn't buy it, so I kept digging deeper.

On July 13th I wrote another article with an exclusive evidence from a Senior Archivist at The National Archives. In this article I basically, said I believe the 'Smoking Gun' photo to be real, and I specially pointed out that something was off about Nat Geo's super-quick rush to judgement. Well it turns out, I was not the only research historian that thought there was something really off about the investigational results.

Let's fast-forward to July 15, 2017. The Republic Of The Marshall Islands, Ministry Of Foreign Affairs published a press release as seen below. This press release strongly and accurately refutes National Geographic finding, and I have to say I agree. 100%

It turns out, another blogger, named Rich Martini, who is a huge Amelia Earhart expert, debunked the debunkers. Rich Martini publishes a blog named, "Earhart On Saipan", and he is an accomplished documentarian. Below is a preview of interviews Martini conducted with historical witnesses surrounding the Amelia Earhart mystery. Basically, the way Marini discredited the Nat Geo finding, is by proving the smoking gun photo from the Japanese 'book', was NOT a copyrighted or properly dated book. Instead the evidence hinged upon a portfolio of photos that was tied together by a piece of string, that had a stamp on the page that supposedly said:"1935". 

Martin articulated it perfectly when he said:

"The photograph in the portfolio - not a book, nor "a copyrighted book" - but a photo album that's been stamped 1935 - never published, not ever a book -  (if we can't agree on what a book is, what's the point of language anyway?) A book is bound - it's published, it's reprinted - that's not the case here. "

So why are you reading and learning about this news on Jake's Rolex World, and not in the mainstream press which rushed to judgment to discredit the smoking gun photo that shows Earhart and Noonan on the dock after she crash landed in the Marshall Islands? I can't explain why the mainstream press attacked the History Channel documentary evidence and so strongly attempted to discredit it, and then when all this REAL NEWS comes forward, they ignore it? I plan to keep researching this subject, and if in the future I have have more to add I will share it with you. In the meantime, I believe the History Channel got it right and I am 99.95% certain the photo is of Earhart. For the record, I am not a conspiracy theorist. I am a historian seeking the truth, the whole truth, and noting but the truth.

Lady Gaga Becomes Tudor Ambassador

Tudor Hotness

Lady Gaga

Becomes Tudor Ambassador

Now there is a term I never thought I would write, "Tudor Hotness", but Lady Gaga just became the worlds first female Tudor brand ambassador. 

In the photo above we see Lady Gaga wearing her Tudor Heritage Black Bay Red [41MM Reference M79230R] on her special red and black nylon strap...

Understaning Gaga
In the video below, Lady Gaga attends a Yale University symposium on her Born This Way Foundation, which addresses how to "Ignite important conversations about making schools place where all students can thrive".

So who exactly is Lady Gaga, and why did Rolex invite her to be a Tudor Brand Ambassador? In the videos below, celebrities voice their opinion about her amazing career achievements.





THE DIVA
Lady Gaga is a Mega-Star recording artist, and in my mind, she is like a modern Madonna. I say that she is like a modern Modonna in the sense she is a singing and fashion Diva, and like Modonna, never looks the same. Her 'Bad Romance' video below has been watches more than 850 Million times, which is amazing.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. v. Conor McGregor

The Winningest Boxer In History
Update: In a 10th round TKO, Floyd Mayweather beat Conor McGregor, thus arguably making Mayweather the greatest boxer who ever lived—at least record wise. Specifically, with this 50th consecutive win, Floyd Mayweather Jr., boxed into the history books, surpassing Rocky Marciano's lifetime achievement record from 1956 of 49 wins and 0 losses.

Photo above of McGregor & Mayweather appears courtesy of Eric Jameson/Associated Press
In the photo below, we see Floyd Mayweather Jr., sporting a bejeweled Rolex Ice Masterpiece.

When Worlds Collide 

 The Hybrid Fight Of The Century 

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

v.

Conor McGregor

Back in 2015 I covered the Mayweather v. Pacquiao fight, which was fascinating! The boxing world is about to witness one of the most interesting and seemingly impossible matches in history! When I was a kid, I used to wonder if Muhammad Ali fought Bruce Lee, who would win? But back then, boxing was boxing and Karate was not. But now worlds are colliding, and we have a new genre of fighting, which is upon us and known as 'Combat Sports'.

Having the top MMA fighter go up agains the top boxer reminds me of the 1972 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Commercial from my childhood, which exclaimed, "Hey, you got chocolate in my peanut butter!?!!"

Tonight the world is about to see the five division boxing champion (WBC, WBO, WBA & Ring Welterweight Champion) Floyd Mayweather Jr, in a boxing match against Conor McGregor, who is the current UFC Lightweight Champion, and former UFC Featherweight Champion, who began his career as a MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), and a featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight. 

So how did this all come about? It all began on Conan O'brien's show back in 2015, when Conan asked Conor McGregor "What if you were in the ring with Floyd Mayweather, what do you think would happen?" Watch the video below to learn about Conor's answer...

One thing Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Conor McGregor have in common is they both wear and have HUGE Rolex collections. This fight could almost be named, "Rolex v. Rolex."

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Yellow Gold Rolex Sky-Dweller

42MM Reference 326938 Calibre 9001

In the photo below we see undefeated boxer, Floyd Mayweather wearing his Rolex Sky-Dweller, which is one of many, many Rolex watches in his collection. Mayweather's career achievements are amazing with 49 wins and Zero losses, and 26 of his wins were by knock-out!!! This Saturday evening in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather will be going for his 50th professional career win against Irish UFC Champion, Conor McGregor, and he claims he intends to retire after the fight. Floyd Mayweather is pictured below wearing his Rolex Sky-Dweller.

Conor McGregor

Everose Gold Rolex Sky-Dweller

42MM Reference 326938 Calibre 9001

In the photo below we see Conor McGregor wearing his Rolex Sky-Dweller, and if he looks like a mean dude, it's because he is.

In the photo below we get a close up wrist-shot of Conor McGregor's Rolex SKY-DWELLER.

Conor McGregor is a Rolex fanatic of the highest order, and he owns and wears many different Rolex watches. In the photo below he is wearing a 40MM yellow gold Rolex Day-Date.

The boxing match is schedule for Saturday, August 26 and begins at 6PM ET (Prelims), and the actual Mayweather v. McGregor is scheduled to begin at 9PM ET, at the T. Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Below is a sample of McGregor's combat fighting skills.

Wrist Shot Of The Week: Rolex Cookie Monster!!!

...Rolex Cuteness...

Rolex Cookie Monster!!!

Looks like Martin's adorable daughter thought his yellow gold Ceramic GMT Master II Supercase with the forest green dial was edible!!! This photo is so cute!!!!!