A new cast member joined the Fast & Furious franchise back in mid 2012, when thier ninth installment came out. He is a five-time wrestling U.S. Champion, four-time world tag team champion, and a 16-time world champion. He is tied with Ric Flair for the most world championship reigns in WWE history, including 13 with the WWE Championship, a record for the title. He is also a two-time Royal Rumble match winner, a one-time Money in the Bank winner, and has headlined several major WWE pay-per-view events, including their flagship event, WrestleMania, five times.
John Cena plays Jakob Toretto, Dominic's younger and competitive brother, in "Fast and Furious 9," which came out in mid 2021.
Below, his tie matches the orange hand of the Explorer II; his shirt, the white dial. The blue star is the logo of the Make-A-Wish Foundation (Cena currently holds the record for most wishes granted).
Though he's been wearing his Explorer II the longest, he promoted the release of "Fast & Furious 9" with a Rolex Batman on his wrist, which matches perfectly the black and blue "F9" logo.
Outside of entertainment, Cena is known for his involvement in numerous charitable causes, namely with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Granting wishes since 2004, Cena has gone on to grant the most wishes (over 650) to children battling life-threatening diseases.
More recently, he helped battle Covid misinformation—beseeching people to check their sources—by stripping down to his waist on John Oliver's show, a rose-gold Daytona 116505 on his wrist. John Oliver and Cena share the same birth year, month and day. I'll include four pictures; the rest is on video.
In October 2020, Cena married girlfriend Shay Shariatzadeh, whom he had been dating since early 2019, in a private ceremony in Tampa, Florida. The two met during the production of Cena's 2019 film "Playing with Fire," which was filmed in Vancouver, where Shariatzadeh works.
The star on his collar is the Make-A-Wish Foundation logo.
I love how Cena doesn't just wear Rolex in formal settings. His Rolex is his everyday watch.
Cena will play alongside Jordana Brewster who has been with the Fast & Furious franchise since its first installment. Jordana is also a bit of a Rolex fanatic.
Lee Majors posing with wife Farah Fawcett Majors and supermodel Brit Ekland
...Rolex Spotting...
The Six Million Dollar Man
If you know the highly iconic 1970s words, they are permanently embedded in the back of your mind. Say them with me:
Steve Austin, Astronaut. A man barely alive...
Oscar Goldman: Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better... stronger... faster...
When was the last time you read a story or watched a documentary that was so bad, it was great? You are either going to absolutely love this story, or think it is completely ridiculous. So let's hop in the Rolex Time Machine and take a trip back to yesteryear to explore Rolex watches in the world of The Six Million Dollar Man...
Steve Austin with Oscar Goldman
I was born in 1966, and when the Six Million Dollar Man debuted in the mid 1970s, I was only 8 years old, and it was next level stuff, like Star Wars. In other words, it was THE BOMB!!! If you grew up as a kid watching Steve Austin as The Six Million Dollar Man, you will probably love this story, and particularly the AMAZING DOCUMENTARY seen below. If you are 22 years old, and a fan of great documentaries, you will probably appreciate the video below.
When I examine The Six Million Dollar Man TV show today that originally aired in the 1970s, I paradoxically find it to be so bad, campy an and kitschy, that I love it. In other words, it's so bad, it's good...you get it. Also, it's so fascinating, otherworldly and multi-faceted on so many different levels, I can't seem to get enough!?!!
If you are not familiar with The Six Million Dollar Man, the premise of the show is based upon a super-competent Apollo Astronaut, Steve Austin, who had traveled to the moon, later tested a prototype aircraft for NASA and experienced a terrible crash that almost killed him. The government decided to save Steve by making him the first Bionic Man at a cost of $6 Million around 1972. Steve's bionic legs are nuclear powered as is his bionic arm as well as a bionic eye that can see way beyond a normal a human eye. In other words, Steve is the first cyborg.
Steve is an extremely handsome, charismatic, masculine ladies man. He is bold, tall, dark, handsome and highly athletic, and typically aloof discreet, kind of like Rolex. So basically, he is like a James Bond secret agent super-spy that regularly goes on special missions coupled with an America Indiana Jones kind of high action character living in a sci-fi future world—which almost sounds Blade Runneresque. Steve is also a very hip dresser, with a propensity for casual leisure clothing, including track suits that show of his harry chest. He is a hardcore male chauvinist, and by today's standards would be considered to be politically incorrect on many levels.
If you are a regular reader of Jake's Rolex World you probably know I regularly take opportunities to wander off the reservation to explore the history of the Kings of Cool. This would included my entire series of Profiles-in-Coolness with stories on ultra-cool dudes, like, Steve McQueen, Elvis Presley, Miles Davis, Paul Newman, James Coburn, James Bond, Robert Redford, or even Cary Grant, all of which wore Rolex watches. It helps if they wore Rolex watches, but what about when a really cool dude existed, who is not known to have worn a Rolex? That is what this story is about.
When I recently watched this amazing documentary, on Lee Majors, as Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man, not only did I come up empty handed, (no pun intended :-), as I kept hoping to find a Rolex on his wrist, but I was wrist-watch-checking every other person in documentary, and I did discover some people wearing Rolex watches. On a side note, it is clear I have a bizarre habit in that I can't seem to watch any form of video without carefully examining each character to see if they are wearing a Rolex :-)
Of course, while I was 'Rolex Spotting', so to speak, I notice a number of people who I didn't see rocking a Rolex, but knew they did, like Jack Klugman, as an example. I could not help but notice Sonny Bono rocking his Mocha GMT-Maste, along with a funkadelic Elvis collar like denim leisure suit with gold chains as pictured below:
Greg Morris of Mission Impossible fame is pictured below, and from the documentary kinda looks like he is rocking a Rolex, but I can't make a 100% positive ID:
I noticed Robert Loggia rocking what appears to be a Rolex Datejust as seen below from the Six Million Dollar Man Documentary...
Our Captain Danny recently sent me the photo below and he said: "Taking my "Orange Hand" Explorer 2 everywhere I go..." I would say that Captain Danny is an American in Paris, but Danny is originally from France...
If you are a regular reader of Jake's Rolex World you know I have always been super-fascinated with the psychology behind luxury brands, as Rolex has remained one of the great status symbols of both the 20th and 21st centuries. While this video does not discuss Rolex, I find it to be really interesting on many levels.
Renowned for its beautiful course, the Rolex Middle Sea Race is one of several 600-mile races supported by Rolex as part of its near 70-year partnership with the sport of yachting. As with historic counterparts the Rolex Fastnet Race and the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the Rolex Middle Sea Race is a compelling and relentless challenge. The 44th edition of the race, first held in 1968, starts from Valletta, the capital of Malta on Saturday 21 October. Encompassing a 606-nautical mile (1,122 kilometres) anticlockwise loop of Sicily the race is stringent examination for all crews, whether professional or Corinthian. Another impressive international fleet of over 100 yachts representing 25 countries are expected to grace the annual event.
In 2017, Loral O'Hara, a native of Texas, was selected by NASA to join the Astronaut Candidate Class and recently traveled to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz Rocket on Friday, September 12, 2023. Both Nick Gould and MoonWatchUniverse share the fact with me that Loral was rocking a platinum and stainless steel Rolex Yacht-Master as seen peeking out.
According to NASA, prior to joining NASA, Loral O'Hara worked and focused on the engineering and operations of deep-ocean research scientific submersibles and robots, and she worked at the Woods Hole Institution at Woods Hole in Massachusetts.
Expedition 70 Launch. Above we see the Soyuz rocket launched during Expedition 70. Photo appears courtesy of NASA/Bill Ingalls.
The radical photos below also appear courtesy of NASA, and say:
The Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to the launch pad at Site 31, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, and Nikolai Chub are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on Sept. 15. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
The Soyuz rocket is seen after being rolled out by train to the launch pad at Site 31, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, and Nikolai Chub are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on Sept. 15. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Captain Danny originally published this article back on June 6, 2023, and we were just talking about how we both noticed how remarkably popular it still is so I decided to share it again. —Jake
Ceramic bezels respond to light in a playful way, and sometimes it's hard to tell if the color of the ceramic itself has a brighter tone or whether it is the environment. Rolex hasn't mentioned any changes in the Submariner LV's bezel color on its website since the start of Watches & Wonders and the launch of the 2023 collection.
But a representative at Rolex in Geneva confirmed to Jake's Rolex World our suspicions: The 2023 Submariner 126610LV, known also as the Kermit or Starbucks, has a slightly brighter bezel. The change in color was first reported by Adrian Barker.
"Starting this year, it is another green that equips the green bezel of the Submariner," the Rolex rep told me. "A more yellow green in fact which is closer to the color we had on this model when it was introduced in 2003. The change will be effective in May."
Rolex is bringing back the green of the original Kermit, the one released for the 50-year anniversary of the Submariner. The new ceramic bezel will mimic better the color of the aluminum bezel that was on the Kermit in 2003.
In 2010, Rolex unveiled the Hulk, a Submariner with a green ceramic bezel and starburst green dial. The tone of the green on the bezel was different than the OG Kermit of 2003. In 2020, when Rolex released the Submariner 41 mm with the updated movement, it kept the Hulk's bezel for its 126610LV, or Starbucks.
Starting in May 2023, the Starbucks will sport a brighter green, a more "yellow-green" as the Rolex rep told me. The reference number will stay the same. The green will be different from the LHD GMT.
As the world got distracted by bubble OPs and emoji Day-Dates, I love when Rolex makes a subtle change without fanfare. The anniversary editions are so overdone, so trumpeted in the watch industry, it's a breath of fresh air to see Rolex make a change — albeit small — while remaining discreet about it.
Phil Mickelson is considered to be one of the great golfers in PGA history and has been a Rolex ambassador for many years. He won the Masters 3 times and in the photo below, we see him sporting a platinum Rolex Day-Date II with a ice blue dial back in 2011.
Historically Rolex has always been extremely secretive and discreet, and no journalists in the past have ever been invited "INSIDE ROLEX" to explore and report on all four Rolex Manufacturing faclities in Switzerland.
In November 2013, this changed when Rolex invited Jake to take an unprecdented journey into the heart of Rolex to learn and report on everything he witnessed and learned.
This Super-Detailed 3 Part Story is a "MUST READ" story for anybody who wants to understand what really makes Rolex tick.
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