100 Superlative Rolex Watches - John Goldberger

Advantages: Its a Rolex - You know you want one.
Disadvantages: None

...a spring in the mechanism replaced, which took a month and cost 100 pounds! The hands have the luminescence stuff along with 11 dots! So you can tell the time at night! WOW! A red dual time hand does one full rotation in 24 hours and is quite useful if you need to refer to a different time zone. An outer bezel with the 24 hours marked is fixed and non rotate able. The non-scratch sapphire crystal face is still in perfect condition after many a knock. The watch has a date with a bubble on the screen to magnify. The bracelet is stainless steel and is very comfortable to wear. Surface scratches to the under side are evident but nothing major and infact become part of the character of the watch. These can be polished out if returned to Rolex for a service. I have worn this watch everyday for the last five years and to be honest apart from... Read review

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Advantages: collectible and distinctive Rolex
Disadvantages: green bezel may not suit , inflated prices

...I recently acquired the Rolex Anniversary Submariner (16610 LV) as my fourth Rolex. Initially thought to be a limited edition released in 2003, Rolex continues to produce the anniversary version. The anniversary submariner is, like the standard 16610 Submariner Date, waterproof to 300m and features the triplock crown. What distinguishes this from the Seadweller and normal submariner are the i) green bezel and ii) bigger hour indices on the 'maxi dial' used on the Yachtmaster allowing for greater luminosity at night. The hands and hour markers are white gold. Whilst this watch will feel at home at 300m/1000ft underwater, I never knew the distinctive green bezel blends in with anything you wear, perhaps for some you either hate it or love it. The RRP is £3030 but expect to pay 10-20%, this is difficult to get and expect to wait up to... Read review

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Advantages: better than putting your money in the bank
Disadvantages: getting mugged

...What is it about Rolex watches? They cost obscene amounts of money and yet they don?t keep time as well as a five quid quartz from down the market. In truth they are an anachronism, a throwback to a different world. One where cheap quartz watches didn?t exist and truly accurate timepieces were works of art, requiring vast numbers of man-hours to manufacture and many dollars to acquire. Up until the First World War, wristwatches were not fashionable amongst men. However Hans Wilsdorf, a German watch merchant living and working in London around the turn of the twentieth century was ahead of his time when he decided that Gents wristlet watches (the early name for them) were going to become the next big thing. He commissioned a low-cost movement from Hermann Aegler, based in Bienne, Switzerland and had these incorporated in to... Read review

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