Saturday, December 20, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Rolex Appoints Bruno Meier C.E.O.
Rolex Appoints Bruno Meier C.E.O.
The Rolex board of Directors appointed Finance Director Bruno Meier as the new Chief Executive Officer of The Rolex Group. Bruno Meier will be replacing Patrick Heiniger on the first of January 2009. Mr. Meier has been the CFO of Rolex for 3 years.
The Mod Squad...
The Mod Squad
Leo (The Idle Swede) is pictured below with. James Dowling is one of the most knowledgeable Rolex experts on earth and co-author of The Best Of Time–Rolex Wristwatches. James Dowling is also a moderator on Timezone's Rolex modern and vintage Rolex forum.
Leo sent in this photo from a GTG of himself and James doing schtick with their name-tags. Leo said this photo reminded him of the photo below this photo of James Dowling with John Mayer because in both, they were pointing at each other.
Leo (The Idle Swede) with James Dowling
Leo told me that he was goofing around with switching his name tag and then James Dowling joined in the fun, which explains why Leo's (pictured on the left) name-tag says "James Dowling" and James' (pictured on the right) says Dave Knoll. Dave Knoll is another Timezone moderator, as is Charles Newgas. GTG's are fun and you never know what to expect next.
James Dowling and John Mayer
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Rolex C.E.O. Patrick Heiniger Resigns
Rolex C.E.O. Patrick Heiniger Resigns
Rolex GENEVA issued the following press release:
GENEVA, December 16, 2008
Mr. Patrick Heiniger, has informed the Board of Directors of Rolex S.A. of his decision to step down as CEO and administrator at the end of this year in order to pursue personal interests.
In 1992, he followed after his father, Mr. André Heiniger; under his leadership, Rolex companies worldwide have sustained unprecedented growth.
Mr. Heiniger will remain available as an adviser to the Rolex Group and to carry out any missions entrusted to him.
Management and Board of Directors will proceed in the conduct of the Group's business.
Mr. Patrick Heiniger, has informed the Board of Directors of Rolex S.A. of his decision to step down as CEO and administrator at the end of this year in order to pursue personal interests.
In 1992, he followed after his father, Mr. André Heiniger; under his leadership, Rolex companies worldwide have sustained unprecedented growth.
Mr. Heiniger will remain available as an adviser to the Rolex Group and to carry out any missions entrusted to him.
Management and Board of Directors will proceed in the conduct of the Group's business.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Lance Armstrong Sporting His Stainless Rolex Daytona With White Dial...
Lance Armstrong–The Greatest Cyclist In History
My pal, Sheldon Smith of www.Minus4Plus6.com is an avid road biker and he sent in what he refers to as the cover of "The Ultimate Bike Geek Magazine."
Sheldon said he likes Lance's GMT Master on Lance better than the Stainless Steel Rolex Daytona Lance Armstrong started wearing about 6 months ago.
In the photo above and below, Lance Armstrong is wearing his stainless steel Rolex Daytona with a white dial. Lance will be back in France in 2009 again to attempt to make his 8th consecutive conquest of the Tour de France.
Men & Watches is about the equivalent of Women & Shoes
Men & Watches = Women & Shoes
I just read an interesting article that says that watch sales are defying the economic crisis which you can find by clicking here.
The Rarest Rolex from John Goldberger...
The Rarest Rolex In The World
John Goldberger is a Rolex connoisseur/collector. His passion for excellent, beautiful and rare Rolex watches is both intoxicating and awe-inspiring at the same time.
John is from Italy, and he recently wrote an amazing Rolex book named 100 Superlative Rolex Watches which contains Rolex watches from the top 5 Rolex connoisseur's on earth–including his own magnificent collection. You can read the review and also listen to the detailed podcast interview by clicking here.
Last year, John took this photo of what he refers to as the rarest Rolex, a Reference 4113, split-chronograph. Rolex only made 12 of these watches in 1943 for the Italian Army.
The watch came from the Mondani collection and was originally auctioned by Antiquorum in 2006. John also owns another one of the 12 which you can find in his book on page 62.
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John Goldberger took this stunning photograph of his prized possession split-chronometer next to jumbo stone crab claws at Garcia's Restaurant in Miami, Florida. Those claws are really jumbo because the Rolex Reference 4413 split-chronograph is a whopping 44mm.
The Rolex split-chronographs have a Valjoux 55 caliber movement. John mentioned in his email to me that "This caliber was used in other split chronographs like the 24h. Chronograph by Universal (made also for Italian military supplier Cairelli in Rome.)"
The Rolex has a matt silvered dial with pink gold relief Arabic and Baton indexes, with an outer 1/5 seconds division, outer black tachometer scale along with a blue inner telemeter scale. The watch also has pink gold Baton hands and a subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dial.
In the future we are going to do a detailed story on this watch.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Rolex Lume Shot of the Day: Rolex Explorer...
Rolex Air King Lume Shot
At first, I thought this was a Rolex Explorer, but as Douglas pointed out, it is the new Air King. The way you can tell is that an Air King has a Rolex Crown at 12, and the Rolex Explorer has an upside down triangle like the Submariner, which would glow in the dark.
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