Spanish Golf Legend: Seve Ballesteros

...Spanish Golf Legend...

Seve Ballesteros

1957–2011

Since we were just checking out Tiger Woods earlier this week, I thought it would make sense to check out another Rolex Ambassador. Seve Ballesteros past away earlier this year in May. He was only 53 years old, but in his golf career he won a total of 87 titles which included three Open championships (1979, 1984 and 1988). He also won two Masters at Augusta in 1980 and 1983.

Seve Ballesteros is pictured above and below after winning the 1997 Ryders Cup

Seve Ballesteros is pictured below with fellow golfing legend, Tony Jacklin who is the winningest British golfer in history. Notice Tony Jacklin is wearing a yellow-gold Rolex Day-Date.

Tiger Woods Is Back Wins Chevron World Challenge

Tiger Woods Is Back

Wins Chevron World Challenge

Rolex DEEP-SEA

Tiger Woods recently re-joined the Rolex family by becoming an official Rolex Ambassador. Recently, Tiger Woods won the Chevron World Challenge making back to back birdies to win the challenge, which represents his first win in two years.

Photo Credit: Scott Halleran/Getty Images

Perhaps wearing a Rolex makes Tiger Woods play better? It is great to see Tiger Woods coming back to life with his career. Tiger Woods is arguably the greatest golfer that has ever lived and I hope the best is yet to come. In the photo above and below, we see Tiger sporting his Rolex DEEP-SEA SEA-DWELLER.

On a side-note, it is really interesting to see Tiger Woods wearing Rolex watches. Back when he was a Tudor Ambassador, I thought Rolex was foolish not to make him a Rolex Ambassador, and despite all Tiger has gone through in the last few years, he just looks right wearing Rolex. Welcome back Tiger!

Photo Credit: Mark Terrill/AP Photo

A True Blue Sub A Rolex Submariner Customized–Kinda? Sorta, Maybe!?!

Update on December 7th: It is amazing how many people have mentioned to me that they love the look of this combination! My girlfriend saw it and freaked out and said, "I love that watch! That's the watch I want!!!" Since she saw the photos first without realizing what she was looking at, I had to tell her it was not available, at least off-the-shelf that way. Hopefully Rolex will offer this option in the future, because it looks great!!!!

A True Blue Sub

A Beautiful Ceramic Stainless Steel Rolex Submariner

Customized–Kinda? Sorta, Maybe!?!

There are several schools of thought when it comes to customizing Rolex watches. First, there are the purists who say you shouldn't modify a stock Rolex and if you do, you end up with a Frankenstein watch. There is another school of thought that believes it does not matter what you do to a Rolex as long as you make it look better.

What does Rolex think about customizing Rolex watches? I don't know for certain, but from what I have put together, they frown upon it. Some might argue Rolex should not really care, because the customizer has to pay for a real Rolex.

There is a third school of thought, which has a lot of grey area. It is an option where somebody takes a 100% genuine Rolex watch, and a part or parts from another model and combine them together. A really good example of this would be Xelor's Stainless Steel Rolex Submariner which he modified by putting a bezel and bezel insert from a white gold Rolex Submariner.

Photo Credit: sBmRnR

An all-new stainless steel Ceramic Rolex Submariner retails for around $8,000 and a White Gold Rolex Submariner retails for around $34,000. Of course, the standard black bezel stainless steel Submariner comes with a black dial, and the white gold Submariner comes with a blue bezel with a matching blue dial.

So Xelor, got the bright idea to somehow purchase the blue bezel from the white gold Submariner and put it on a standard Submariner and in my opinion it looks stunningly great!!! So if you want to obtain a blue bezel insert like Xelor did, how do you do so? I don't know? In the United States, as I understand it, Rolex does not allow you to purchase parts without trading-in the watch part that is being replaced.

I have heard that in Europe it is easier to purchase just parts, but never having done so, I honestly don't know. I just hope Rolex sees how beautiful this combination is, and eventually offers it, because it looks great!!!

Photo Credit: sBmRnR

Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi Cover of November 2011 Architectural Digest

Cool Rolex Hotness ;-)

Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi

Cover of November 2011 Architectural Digest

Yellow Gold Rolex Daytona

Ellen DeGeneres is a very popular talk show host and American personality, as well as being a fellow Rolex Fanatic. She can always be seen sporting different Rolex models, and on the cover of the 2011 Architectural Digest we see her wearing a yellow gold Rolex Daytona.

It's kind of ironic because on the cover of the November 2010 Architectural Digest, it featured Robe Lowe wearing his stainless steel Rolex Daytona.

Roger Federer Wins Barclays ATP World Tour Finals

Roger Federer Wins Barclays ATP World Tour Finals

Rolex.com is currently congratulating Roger Federer for having won the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals and published this photo of him with his trophy, and notice he is wearing the cool new rose gold Rolex Daytona.

Rolex Triple-Date Moonphase Red Hand with Black Moon 1953 Reference 8171

Rolex Triple-Date Moonphase

Red Hand with Black Moon

1953 Reference 6062

Antiquorum Auction House in Geneva, Switzerland sold this rare and beautiful Rolex Triple-Date Moonphase in March of 2011 for $76,000. It has a very rare red date hand coupled with an unusual black-back moon disk.

Update: John Goldberger wrote in to say that the dial on this watch is a "fake redone dial" and said "The quality of your blog is declining?" It is pretty funny, to have a guy like John Goldberger who is one of the top Rolex and Patek Philippe collectors in the world constantly pointing out errors I make ;-) Actually, I like his assistance.

Happy Thanksgiving from Jake!!!

Happy Thanksgiving from Jake!!!

Hi Everybody!!!

It is hard to believe it is already Thanksgiving again on Jake's Rolex Watch Blog!!! It has been another absolutely amazing year of filled with growth and amazing new Rolex historical content. Since last Thanksgiving I have met many new international readers and made many new and exiting friends.

I even started Jake's Patek Philippe World Blog as well as Jake's Who Knew World Blog. I publish all my blogs more as notebooks for my interest, and as the CEO and Designer at BulletTrain, I also publish the BulletBlog by JakeE. As you can imagine, I have so much to be grateful for and I wish all my readers a happy Thanksgiving!!!!

"The First Thanksgiving" painting by Jean Gerome Ferris (1863-1930)

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday because it gives us a chance to pause and reflect on how fortunate we all are to be able to experience this amazing miracle, known as life, on this spinning marble we all share–named Earth.

Of course I realize Thanksgiving is a U.S. holiday, but I believe it's as timeless and universal as a sunset or a smile :-)))

Once again, Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Warmest regards,

Jake

RubberB Back In Orange...

RubberB Back In Orange

RubberB is an extremely innovative company as well as being a sponsor of Jake's Rolex World. When I first saw the RubberB concept I was blown away because they made the first rubber straps that were custom designed to fit perfectly into the complete lug space on many Rolex sport watches. I wrote a review of RubberB on Jake's Rolex World to show how their innovate system worked.

I spoke with the owner and I mentioned he had to offer his strap in Safety-Orange. I argued it would look really good, particularly with a standard Submariner or Sea-Dweller. Turns out RubberB agreed and just introduced their updated strap in orange!!!

This new model in orange is actually a second-generation strap, which is similar in many ways to the older version—including their T shaped design—but different in one way. Basically, the first generation version was designed to accommodate all wrist sizes including people with enormous wrists. The challenge is that 95% of the population has a small, medium or large wrist, but not a huge wrist. RubberB optimized the second generation so it fits better, particularly on the Submariner and SEA-DWELLER models.

I have review units of the second generation RubberB strap in orange, black and in white, and as soon as I get a chance, I will write a review with pictures as well as creating an installation video. In the meantime, you can check out these images.
I love the orange color, because it give the Rolex sport watches more of an aquatic tool watch vibe. There is something just really kind of preppy, sporty, fun and aquatic about the orange color strap. I know because I have worn my Submariner on an orange NATO strap.

The challenge of course with NATO straps is there is so much extra hardware and nylon, that it looks like a flea-market that blew up. The RubberB on the other hand is super streamlined and clean-cut. Very French and Jacques Cousteau meets SEA-LAB cool.

World War II 1944 Women In Service Rolex Ad...

World War II

1944 Women In Service Rolex Ad

Rolex Triple Date Reference 6236

Rolex Triple Date

[Reference 6236]

Raphael Too from Time Tapestry took this photo of a rare Rolex triple date [Reference 6236] when he was at an Antiquorum Auction preview. Very cool Rolex. I really wish Rolex would bring back complicated watches!!!