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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.

The Rolex Oyster Perpetual has constantly been the front-runner in a collection of legendary watches, it is the most recognized and most easily well-known of watches. Artistically, these models have evolved finely over the years, but their u***takable individuality has always been respected. Over time it has become a standard. The Oyster benefits from all the technology and expertise of Rolex. In a time when the pocket watch was the order of the day, Hans Wilsdorf, the founder of Rolex entered the world of Swiss watch *** in the early 20th century. He started to envision a watch being worn on the wrist. At that time, wristwatches were not very precise but he foresaw that they could become reliable aside from being elegant. He equipped them with tiny, very accurate movements made by a Swiss watch *** company in Bienne to persuade the public of the dependability of his determinedly innovative timepieces. Mercedes Gleitze, a young English swimmer, crossed the English Channel wearing the Oyster only a year after its creation in 1927. Proclaiming the success of the waterproof watch, Hans Wilsdorf published an advertisement on the front page of the Daily Mail to celebrate a milestone event in which Gleitze, at the end of her swim, which lasted over ten hours, found out that the watch remained in perfect working condition. In 1931, the Oyster soon possessed yet another outstanding feature. A clever system at the basis of every modern automatic watch, Rolex created and patented the world's first self-winding mechanism with a perpetual rotor. To receive certification from COSC (Controle Officiel Suisse des Chronometres), which is an independent not-for-profit organization; a watch must demonstrate extreme precision in a variety of positions and temperatures. SUPERLATIVE CHRONOMETER OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED, the four *** words engraved on the timepiece's dial, mean that the movement of this watch has endured fifteen days and nights of testing by the COSC; thus, the impeccable standard level of quality for every Rolex chronometer. The back of any Oyster, which is sealed to the case with an immense torque of 5 Newton Metres, produces an environment that protects the movement from water, pressure, shocks, dust and any other intrusive element. Nowadays, a Rolex watch enjoys autonomy of approximately 50 hours. The Perpetual rotor system of the Oyster movements is identifiable by two red reversing wheels that allow the rewinding of the movement in spite of the rotation direction of the swinging weight. The self-winding device transmits continuous natural energy to the watch. It consists of a half-moon shaped oscillating weight, which spins freely on its central axle, in one direction, then the other with the normal movements of the wrist. The oscillations of the weight generate energy which is accumulated in the mainspring. The 904l steel is what Rolex uses for its steel watch cases; its steel usually set aside for the chemical industry. It is made of a super alloy unimaginably resistant and able to be polished to a higher degree, where maximum resistance against corrosion prove vital. In this fashion, 904l perfectly goes together the other valuable metals used by Rolex. One little imperfection of the Oyster was that the winder had to be unscrewed to wind the watch. If the owner forgot to screw it back in firmly, or as the threads or waterproof seals wore out over time, the watch was no longer completely waterproof. This was worked out by Rolex in 1931, with the introduction of the perpetual self-winding movement. A self-winding watch has an internal rotor �C a semi-circular metal plate which turns around back and forth with any movement of the wrist, rewinding the mainspring that powers the watch. Now, the external winding knob (the crown) was required only for occasional time corrections and the watch's waterproofing system became more dependable. Remaining privately owned, Rolex may well take the long term vision of the future without worrying about shareholders and the next quarter's earnings. Importance in high-quality Swiss-made movements duly made a comeback in the 1990s, and fine watch *** was reborn to a stronger industry. The Rolex Company produces some 650,000 watches per year and keeping firm control over distribution, sales outlets, and price.