Interesting articles on a vintage Rolex meet last weekend

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Thanks, wow!
Some collections!
I love how they had a giveaway...GMT Master II. It’s a whole different level.
 
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Thanks for the link!

I remember the day I opened a mint mid-90s Seamaster mid-size a loved one had found come across in a local shop and surprised me with. It became my first "collection" piece, but certainly not the last. Rollie, Omega, vintage or contemporary, the kind of joy that collectors even as well-heeled as these show so happily and openly remind me why this is such a great hobby to be in, whether your grail is a piece from Timex or Patek. 👍
 
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I’m not sure I’d be willing to put my watches worth $100k or more on a common table for everyone to paw, even if it was invitation only and $850 a head.
 
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Cam Wolf said:
It suddenly radiates like a kid’s glow-in-the-dark toy, thanks to the watch’s bezel being made from a long-out-of-production and radioactive material called Bakelite.
Never knew that Bakelite is radioactive... 🤦
 
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I’m not sure I’d be willing to put my watches worth $100k or more on a common table for everyone to paw, even if it was invitation only and $850 a head.
It is a vey strange feeling this first time you do it.
Plenty do not, there were many who held smaller displays at their own tables.
Usually however all watches are taken to the big table for a group shot at the end.
 
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Never knew that Bakelite is radioactive... 🤦
As usual, the uninitiated get the terminology wrong.
99.9% of the population surely don’t know the difference between bezel and insert, never mind anything more complicated
 
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I'll be so happy to see a "Conniefest" as well;-) (lol)
 
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Never knew that Bakelite is radioactive... 🤦

Wrong to say the Bakelite is radioactive, but maybe less wrong than is obvious: the Rolex GMT-Master Ref. 6542 did have a luminous/radioactive Bakelite bezel (not due to the Bakelite itself of course)