Asp9mmOver the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,485MI6 Agent
By the way, one of the things that made the Explorer so successful was the use of several different types of oil used in the movement. Made to Rolex's own formula, I think it used about seven different types on different parts of the movement. This made it more versatile and reliable during extreme temperature change. It wouldn't thin out or thicken in hot and cold environments, ensuring the timekeeping remained constant. A little known fact about Rolex. I was told about the price of the oils to produce and per drop I was utterly shocked. Can't remember what it was now, but I couldn't work out how the watch could be made so cheaply, but then they use so very very little of the oil per watch. We produce a similar base oil on our noses. Brilliant for preserving pocket knife blades.
Cheers, I ordered a Phoenix one from Monkey Swag on Amazon, seen one comment state that the material frays after a while. Was looking for an alternative if the strap I ordered starts to falter.
Would love to hear the take on that watch being offered for sale by the more experienced heads here, or is this just as it appears? - Someone opened their wallet before engaging their brain?
I'm thinking WF might have paid around £3k for that watch, even if it was traded in for something. Just seems like a massive hit taken by someone and a steal if anyone is in the market for a SM300 in titanium
Would love to hear the take on that watch being offered for sale by the more experienced heads here, or is this just as it appears? - Someone opened their wallet before engaging their brain?
I'm thinking WF might have paid around £3k for that watch, even if it was traded in for something. Just seems like a massive hit taken by someone and a steal if anyone is in the market for a SM300 in titanium
That is nuts! I know they don't pay the best price when buying watches but to offer it at that amount they must have got it at rock bottom. they has the stainless version on their site a month or so back for 3.6k so it doesn't seem relevant.
Here is my admission to this thread, sorry about the poor quality of the picture, I'm not much of a phone photographer... That is my current favorite dress watch.
And here comes a question: how certain it is, that when Fleming wrote that " Bond wore his Rolex on an expanding metal bracelet", he in fact meant divers extension, and not one of these: http://www.ofrei.com/page_96.html .
If I were to use my watch as a knuckle duster, this stretchy band would be much more comfortable. Also, these things were very popular in the 60's, several of the era watches that I have acquired along the years have sported these. Wouldn't Oyster bracelet have been "extending metal bracelet" instead of "expanding metal bracelet"?
Have a nice week end!
"I mean, she almost kills bond...with her ass."
-Mr Arlington Beech
Asp9mmOver the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,485MI6 Agent
Here is my admission to this thread, sorry about the poor quality of the picture, I'm not much of a phone photographer... That is my current favorite dress watch.
And here comes a question: how certain it is, that when Fleming wrote that " Bond wore his Rolex on an expanding metal bracelet", he in fact meant divers extension, and not one of these: http://www.ofrei.com/page_96.html .
If I were to use my watch as a knuckle duster, this stretchy band would be much more comfortable. Also, these things were very popular in the 60's, several of the era watches that I have acquired along the years have sported these. Wouldn't Oyster bracelet have been "extending metal bracelet" instead of "expanding metal bracelet"?
Have a nice week end!
Rolex made expanding spring metal Oyster bracelets for Subs and Explorers amongst others back in the 50's and 60's. My own 6538 has one on it. When Fleming described the bracelet as 'expanding' it's likely he meant exactly that sort of bracelet and was not referring to the deployant clasp or diver's extension. We all know who started that ridiculous speculation, for his own ends and not for the facts.
Here is my admission to this thread, sorry about the poor quality of the picture, I'm not much of a phone photographer... That is my current favorite dress watch.
And here comes a question: how certain it is, that when Fleming wrote that " Bond wore his Rolex on an expanding metal bracelet", he in fact meant divers extension, and not one of these: http://www.ofrei.com/page_96.html .
If I were to use my watch as a knuckle duster, this stretchy band would be much more comfortable. Also, these things were very popular in the 60's, several of the era watches that I have acquired along the years have sported these. Wouldn't Oyster bracelet have been "extending metal bracelet" instead of "expanding metal bracelet"?
Have a nice week end!
Nice. That looks very much like the 'other' Bond watch discussed in the NATO Strap Basics thread!
Rolex made expanding spring metal Oyster bracelets for Subs and Explorers amongst others back in the 50's and 60's. My own 6538 has one on it.
Interesting! Any chance of some pics? Never heard of those before, I assume because the potential to damage or break such a bracelet means less originals survive compared to link bracelets?
Asp9mmOver the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,485MI6 Agent
edited April 2015
They aren't really rare or unknown. If DD had bothered to research his article before making stuff up to fit his idea, then he would know about them, or maybe he did, and because they are more prominent on Submariners, he chose to ignore this fact. I've bought five 6538, 6536-1 Submariners, and four of them had this bracelet on them.
This link (no pun intended) shows one extended and contracted.....
Finally took the plunge and purchased my first James Bond watch. Very Happy
nice one ,well done you ,it looks fab -{
Thanks
Also just on a side note. The other watch from Skyfall - the Planet Ocean. Was that the titanium liquid metal model or the stainless steel one? Always read conflicting opinions on that one.
Nice. That looks very much like the 'other' Bond watch discussed in the NATO Strap Basics thread!
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!!
Because of you, I waded through that thread..... I am so glad that my watch is not gold plated (or gold) and is in fact a Zenith. (Gruen is such an ugly name for a watch) That particular watch is also an heirloom, so for the record: I did not purchase it in order to have a Conneresque dress watch to wear with a suit!
Nor do I own any gold plated 60's era or other watches.
People here would quite easily crucify me as a collaborator with the enemy just for owning a gold dress watch never mind a Gruen Then when added my question about the strap...... there is just so many varieties of sh1t that one can land in unintentionally!
Now here is my "Discovery" I intend to form a whole new brand of industry around it: Literary Bond is not a very good marketer of the Rolex watches, since in the span of 12 novels and 2 short story collections, he manages to break 2 watches. 1.st one in the Doctor No, his watch doesn't survive the trip to the Crab Key, and the 2nd one is the well known one from the OHMSS.
Here is the question: how do we know that Bond wore a Rolex prior to Goldfinger? If it indeed were a Rolex, which was it, if it were so fragile that a simple canoe trip and some hiking in mangrove would cause it to conk out?
Maybe, just maybe, it was no other than Gruen P... (Suddenly there is the explosion of a window shattering, an echo of a rifle shot in the distance is heard fading a way)
"I mean, she almost kills bond...with her ass."
-Mr Arlington Beech
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and this is how they are done:
https://vimeo.com/34222782
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
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Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
For Whom the Dell Tolls....
https://vimeo.com/124119209
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
I hate Vimeo. Even when it's fully buffered it just stops every few seconds for no reason. Worse than Blip.
I have found these to be excellent
http://rltwatches.co.uk/opencart/index.php?route=product/category&path=3_14_15
Cheers, I ordered a Phoenix one from Monkey Swag on Amazon, seen one comment state that the material frays after a while. Was looking for an alternative if the strap I ordered starts to falter.
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OUCH!
Would love to hear the take on that watch being offered for sale by the more experienced heads here, or is this just as it appears? - Someone opened their wallet before engaging their brain?
I'm thinking WF might have paid around £3k for that watch, even if it was traded in for something. Just seems like a massive hit taken by someone and a steal if anyone is in the market for a SM300 in titanium
That is nuts! I know they don't pay the best price when buying watches but to offer it at that amount they must have got it at rock bottom. they has the stainless version on their site a month or so back for 3.6k so it doesn't seem relevant.
http://www.watchfinder.co.uk/Omega/Seamaster%20300m/233.30.41.21.01.001/26164/item/47329
Can't understand how these are hitting the secondary market so soon. I mean, it's still got the protective labels on!
Makes me realise that just like cars, perhaps the secondary market is also the way to go for watches :v
Here is my admission to this thread, sorry about the poor quality of the picture, I'm not much of a phone photographer... That is my current favorite dress watch.
And here comes a question: how certain it is, that when Fleming wrote that " Bond wore his Rolex on an expanding metal bracelet", he in fact meant divers extension, and not one of these: http://www.ofrei.com/page_96.html .
If I were to use my watch as a knuckle duster, this stretchy band would be much more comfortable. Also, these things were very popular in the 60's, several of the era watches that I have acquired along the years have sported these. Wouldn't Oyster bracelet have been "extending metal bracelet" instead of "expanding metal bracelet"?
Have a nice week end!
-Mr Arlington Beech
Rolex made expanding spring metal Oyster bracelets for Subs and Explorers amongst others back in the 50's and 60's. My own 6538 has one on it. When Fleming described the bracelet as 'expanding' it's likely he meant exactly that sort of bracelet and was not referring to the deployant clasp or diver's extension. We all know who started that ridiculous speculation, for his own ends and not for the facts.
Nice. That looks very much like the 'other' Bond watch discussed in the NATO Strap Basics thread!
Oh..... you mean that guy, I was wondering why nobody had yet contacted any living relatives... 8-)
-Mr Arlington Beech
Hope you enjoy wearing that for many years.
Thanks
Interesting! Any chance of some pics?
This link (no pun intended) shows one extended and contracted.....
http://www.chrono-shop.net/en/clasp/1809-vintage-genuine-expandable-ci-1970-rolex-20mm-s-s-usa-oyster-riveted-band-bracelet-5512-5513-1680-5508-5510-6538-6536-1675-6542.html
nice one ,well done you ,it looks fab -{
Thanks
Also just on a side note. The other watch from Skyfall - the Planet Ocean. Was that the titanium liquid metal model or the stainless steel one? Always read conflicting opinions on that one.
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!!
Because of you, I waded through that thread..... I am so glad that my watch is not gold plated (or gold) and is in fact a Zenith. (Gruen is such an ugly name for a watch) That particular watch is also an heirloom, so for the record: I did not purchase it in order to have a Conneresque dress watch to wear with a suit!
Nor do I own any gold plated 60's era or other watches.
People here would quite easily crucify me as a collaborator with the enemy just for owning a gold dress watch never mind a Gruen
Now here is my "Discovery" I intend to form a whole new brand of industry around it: Literary Bond is not a very good marketer of the Rolex watches, since in the span of 12 novels and 2 short story collections, he manages to break 2 watches. 1.st one in the Doctor No, his watch doesn't survive the trip to the Crab Key, and the 2nd one is the well known one from the OHMSS.
Here is the question: how do we know that Bond wore a Rolex prior to Goldfinger? If it indeed were a Rolex, which was it, if it were so fragile that a simple canoe trip and some hiking in mangrove would cause it to conk out?
Maybe, just maybe, it was no other than Gruen P... (Suddenly there is the explosion of a window shattering, an echo of a rifle shot in the distance is heard fading a way)
-Mr Arlington Beech