Rolex Datejust Watches

ICAP Leopard finished third at the 2009 Rolex Hobart Sydney Race and the winner of the regatta was Alfa Romeo and the second in position was Wild Oats XI. ICAP Leopard is the 100 feet British super-maxi racing yacht which is owned by Helical Bar PLC chief executive Mike Slade. ICAP Leopard achieved the third position after a long and hard-fought battle with the last year's winner Wild Oats XI and this time winner Alfa Romeo. Crawling up the Derwent River with the 100 feet British super-maxing was tough for the crew as weather was changing each hour. The crew really tried hard but missed the second position also. The Rolex Hobart Sydney Race is all about testing the calibre to withstand the torturous weather conditions and emerging as a leader irrespective of what the conditions are. Rolex has always believed in bringing the best to the market via its watches and is associated with this sport because it also brings out the best in the worst conditions. Rolex, Swiss watch *** company has always brought out the champions of the sport. Rolex has always sponsored the best sports and the Rolex Hobart Sydney Race also brings out the best of the entire crew of sailors.This season the Rolex Hobart Sydney Race was filled with surprises as Alfa Romeo won the winning position and defeating the all time favourite Wild Oats XI, which has been a four time winner. Still till now no team could break the record created by Wild Oats XI, though Alfa Romeo won but they did not defeat the old record set by Wild Oats XI. ICAP Leopard crossed the Tasmanian finish line after two day, sixteen hours and forty-fives minutes at sea. The windy weather was a little help to the sailors but the desire of winning was higher which made the crew stand against the worse weather conditions also. The Rolex Hobart Sydney Race is known for its fearsome weather conditions which makes this competition a very interesting competition to view. But this year the weather conditions were very hard-pressed which did not give tacticians and navigators any advantage to puff of the breeze and make this competition a neck-to-neck fight. The winds were cold and blustery for the race which made the race even harder to win. With such torturous weather conditions ICAP Leopard gave a hard-fight to Alfa Romeo. The forecasts changed hourly since the very start and no one could predict the weather till the very finish of the race. This race brought an immense tactical battle between all the super-maxi yachts. It is disappointing to know that ICAP Leopard could not take the line honour title also but Alfa Romeo should be credited for taking a lead in the impeccable race.ICAP Leopard has missed the historic treble as it has already won the Rolex Fastnet and Middle-Sea races earlier in the season. If ICAP Leopard had won this race then the team would have all three "offshore classic" in the season. The effort put by the team was tremendous which gave then the third position. The Rolex Hobart Sydney Race is about fight the odd and becoming a winner. Rolex is associated with this race as that it can bring the best sports team in front of the world. This time the best sports team was Alfa Romeo but ICAP Leopard gave a good fight to this team also.

If you are an aficionado or a collector of vintage rolex fake watches , you know how prized and rare those models are. Let's have a quick overview of some (but by no means all) of these coveted relics of the past.Rolex watches of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940sStraight away, we have the Cushion and Cushion Steel in Rolex's Oyster Line. Both were introduced in the 1920s, so they were among the early models Replica Rolex Watches produced. The "cushion" refers to the outer shape of the case, a slightly rounded square, which bears some similarity to the present-day Danaos in the Cellini line.Then there's Viceroy watch, launched in the 1930s. Its art-deco design has a round dial encrusted into a square case.Another Rolex relic of that era is the Prince line of rectangular-shaped watches. Rolex advertising promoted the Prince as "the watch for men of distinction." The seconds subdial positioned below the hours-minutes dial amounted to separate faces, or a "dual" dial. Actually the Prince had nothing to do with royalty per se; it became known as a "Doctor's or Nurse's" watch because the relatively large subsidiary seconds dial was easily readable and useful for functions like pulse readings. As is the case with many vintage watches, it is not known when the Prince was discontinued; it was probably sometime in the 1940s, when this watch lost its sense of grace as tastes changed and Dolce & Gabbana continued to experiment with new designs. However, Rolex re-launched this model in 2005.In the early 1950's, along with other lines such as the Day-Date, Submariner, Explorer and GMT Master, Rolex also introduced the more forgettable 'Tru-beat' and 'Milgauss.' The Tru-beat functioned as a standard watch, but the second hand jumped from marker to marker instead of sweeping around the dial.Its mechanical movement, by the way, was designed to "tick" only once per second. This deadbeat (no pun intended, naturally) seconds feature wasn't very popular and the watch was discontinued shortly after it was introduced, in 1954. The Milgauss, as the name implies, was built to handle strong magnetic fields in certain industries such as power plants and research labs, but it too lost, erm, power (I know, I'm awful) after a while, and fizzled.Also, in the mid-1950s, Rolex introduced the Thunderbird model of the Datejust. The only real difference between the Datejust of that era and the Thunderbird was in the bezel. The Thunderbird model contained the Rolex Turn-O-Graph bezel, but the name Thunderbird stuck when the Air Force started to award pilots of the Thunderbirds with this particular watch.Where you can buy them nowThe only viable option for the serious vintage rolex collector is to buy from reputable dealers. Many of these are, surprisingly, found online, in credible online auction spaces such as eBay (which goes through great lengths to protect its own image by offering insurance and dispute resolution). Naturally, one must insist on getting an official certificate to ensure that one isn't throwing away money into the dustbin.