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Paul Newman’s Paul Newman Daytona featured on The Walking Dead
AMC’s The Walking Dead featured the most valuable watch ever sold. I, like everyone else, was watching AMC’s golden-child franchise series The Walking Dead last night. It was the season 7 half-season finale. In between tweeting about Bitcoin futures and complaining in general, which, let’s be honest, is the real purpose of the internet, I noticed something interesting. Rick is wearing a Rolex. Upon first inspection I just noticed it was a Rolex Daytona, their mainstay chronograph first produced in 1963. I initially thought it was one of the lesser, modern models, such as 116500LN and 116520. I know what you’re thinking, big deal. It isn’t, I agree. I’ve lost…
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Putin’s watch in Oliver Stone’s The Putin Interviews
Somehow Oliver Stone was granted access for multiple, filmed interviews with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the last two years. You may remember Stone as the director of such films as Platoon, JFK, Wall Street, and Natural Born Killers; all fine watch movies. The result was a 4-part series for Showtime called The Putin Interviews. A few times the former KGB agent waved his hand and we’d get a glimpse of what the President of Russia wears on his wrist. Finally, in part 4, we got a nice view of the IWC he was wearing.[envira-gallery id=”375″] It’s an IWC 3265 Pilot Mark XVII. Off the shelf $4,000 watch. It’s a…
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Pictorial review of Raymond Weil’s Bowie Tribute
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10 OTHER ways to spend $17,752,500
So….. Last week saw the sale of Paul Newman’s Paul Newman Daytona for a whopping $17,752,500. If I had that much money I would buy a couple other things instead. In some cases many other things. Here is my top ten list of things one could buy instead of that watch. 10 4 Ferrari Laferrari automobiles @ $4mil each 9 1 Gatsby’s Long Island Mansion at $17mil 8 1365 Late model Rolex Daytonas at $13K each 7 51,012 Artisinal Axes @ 384 each 6 99,175 David Wellington watches $179 each 5 993 2018 Ford Focus at $17860 each 4 425 1-KILO Gold Bars $41,733 each 3 17770 iPhone X model phones @999 each…
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DJ Khaled gave his son a Crazy Diamond Watch for 1st Birthday
What has 11-carats and is worth $100K that a 1 year old owns? DJ Khaled, of music production and Snapchat fame, gave his sone this insane Franck Muller watch for his birthday. Why is this important? It’s not. But maybe the publicity will bring Franck Muller more customers. They were huge a decade ago, but not so much anymore. With reference to the hip-hop music scene, younger artists are going for AP and Patek designs. You hear them mention Audemars by name in a few tracks that have come out in the last year. Khaled himself is often seen wearing Patek Phillipe diamond encrusted Nautilus references. Source: DJ Khaled…
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My Paul Newman Paul Newman Daytona prediction
Prophecy of this watches’s future I really do want it to do well. I want the Nell Newman charity to get maximum proceeds from the sale. I want Phillips Auctions and Aurel Bacs/Paul Boutros to make serious bank on this, too. But The hype around this watch will subside. The hype around all Paul Newman Daytonas will eventually die down and they’ll be “reasonably priced” and “attainable” as far as high-end vintage watches are concerned. There are a lot of them. I know they’ve been the watch for literally 30 years, but something will rise up and knock it off the iron throne. Any guesses on what that something is? Also,…
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Paul Newman’s Legendary ‘Paul Newman’ Rolex PAUL NEWMAN ROLEX
People lose their minds over two things, Paul Newman Daytonas and Celebrity Watches. Join me to watch the collective watch community’s head explode when Phillips auctions off Paul Newman’s actual Daytona. ABOUT You can read the story on the link to Phillips below as to how this whole thing came to be. TL:DR version… Newman handed it to his daughter’s boyfriend in the early 1980s. What is it exactly? Rolex Cosmograph Daytona reference 6239 with an exotic dial purchased by Newman’s wife, Joanne, at Tiffany & Co. in 1968. MONEY The watch was something like $250 USD new back when you’d see them in stores. A new (in 2017) Rolex…
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What watch is Jay-Z wearing on Saturday Night Live?
Arguably the best hip-hop artist of the last 15 Years is wearing a yellow gold watch on Saturday Night Live. What the hell is it? Jay-Z has worked with watch companies in the past (Hublot!) so I think it’s somewhat safe to say he’s a watch guy. This first set of pictures are from his second song. My guess is a reference 5119 Patek Phillipe calatrava. You can clearly see the sub-seconds dial and the hand shape, there is no Patek clasp visible…so there are the available clues. I can’t find this exact ref because there aren’t numerals on the dial. The below pictures are from his first song. He…
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Tudor Brand Ambassadors = KILLING IT.
LADY GAGA DAVID BECKHAM Born to dare. Game. Set. Match. Pack it up, they’ve won. Getting Lady Gaga on board is pure genius. She has an army of devoted fans, most of which probably don’t have a watch, let alone a nice watch. She’s here to tell you t hat you can share her values with a fine timepiece. Don’t keep Gaga waiting! A Tudor Heritage Blackbay. A nice sized, super versatile watch. Hell, I want one. (Maybe not the red, but I’d love to take any model for a test spin. Is anyone listening at Tudor.) As far as David Beckham, I’ll simply refer to him as…
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The new Tom Brady Tag Heuer 01 Tag Tom Brady Heuer 12 01 Tag yawn…..
I lived in Boston for a handful of years when Tom Brady was winning Super Bowls. Tag Heuer currenty has Brady, quarterback for the New England Patriots, as a Brand ambassador. I like the Patriots. I like Boston. I like Tom Brady. I loath this watch. Here’s the newest Brady themed LE Uh-huh. Thanks. It feels like a fat bloated saloon car that no on really wants, but buys out on necessity. The “12” at the 12 register kills me. Atrocious. And I know, it’s his number in their jersey font. Unfortunately in this situation, it’s too on the nose. The red/blue color scheme for the Pats is f-i-n-e. One…
