I had a meeting with a bunch of high-powered consultants yesterday and the majority of them had on different Rolex dive variants. No diversity splashed in, pretty funny. I wondered if it was a requirement to get hired at their firm.
Was standing in line to get lobster rolls, remarked that the gentleman in front of my had a good looking sub. He rolls his wrist over to show me this:
One owner, purchased in Singapore in 1973. Still has the box, papers, original sales receipt. Daily wearer ever since. Commented that he bought it because the guys at NASA told him Rolex’s were the watch to own if you were a diver.
Excuse me, did you just say NASA?
Turns out, this gentleman was a diver, who at NASA worked in a neutral buoyancy tank to teach the Apollo astronauts how to move in a zero g environment. Bought the single red when he moved into the private sector. And they have subsequently been all over the world with it. Said they will be going out together.
Absolutely phenomenal conversation.
Was standing in line to get lobster rolls, remarked that the gentleman in front of my had a good looking sub. He rolls his wrist over to show me this:
One owner, purchased in Singapore in 1973. Still has the box, papers, original sales receipt. Daily wearer ever since. Commented that he bought it because the guys at NASA told him Rolex’s were the watch to own if you were a diver.
Excuse me, did you just say NASA?
Turns out, this gentleman was a diver at NASA that worked in a neutral buoyancy tank to teach the Apollo astronauts how to move in a zero g environment. Bought the single red when he moved into the private sector. And has subsequently been all over the world with it. Said they will be going out together.
Absolutely phenomenal conversation.
Whatever makes him happy. He's obviously not planning on flipping it.
Just returned from a short break in Spain.
I was disappointed by the lack of watches I spotted.
1) Rolex Deep Sea.
2) New design Speedmaster.
3) Black face 16570 Explorer.
The rest were Apple watches and a couple of Casio’s.
I think I must just hang out in the wrong places.
Granted, my post-retirement job is driving a dump truck, so I never see a nice watch being worn anywhere I go except what is on my own wrist.
Last night my amazingly beautiful wife and I attended her HS reunion. It was at a nice place in Monterey and there were a few hundred people there. Many financially successful folks among them. As is my usual habit, I looked harder at wrists than at name tags. The nicest watches I saw were aluminum Apples.
In the past year I spied one Sub on a friend's wrist at a barbecue at my brother in laws house. That's my sum total of finds in the wild.
Am I just a low-class rube who hangs out with the wrong crowd, or has the world really gone 99.9% G-Shock and Apple?
