DrStrong

Our dear Amanico has already made a great in depth review of the Freccione a couple of months ago: but I wanted to add a few personal comments as well as pictures of this watch and its evolution duri

Sometimes patience is important for a collector…. After declining and missing Comex watches for the past ten years, my day also had to come... So last tuesday, I took a short car trip to meet an ex

we thought that last' year's 100% Passion meeting in the Netherlands was the best vintage Rolex GTG ever...but I have to say that thanks to Philipp and Bernhard this year was even better ! More friend

Over the past years, I have been able to source a few French military diver's watches from the late 1950's that were still in the drawer of retired watchmakers: Rolex, Tudor, Blancpain,... In these ea

having lunch with some old friends from all over Europe is always a great moment of passion ....especially in a beautiful place, while enjoying nice weather and tasty food…. When the guys around the t

COMEX is a French diving company founded in 1961 by H.G. Delauze to explore the depths of the oceans: it is the NASA of the deep sea …. At that time, Yuri Gagarine was travelling around the earth at 3

In 1988, Rolex introduced a new Daytona to replace the not so popular manual wound 6263/5. The new Daytona ref. 16520 had a similar design but with some major improvements. Here are the two models sid

The Paul Newman dial – also called exotic dial by some collectors – is a dial variation that went with the Cosmograph throughout almost all the production period of the watch, from 1963 to 1978. It wa

The legend says that the Daytona fever started in Italy in 1985, when a magazine published on its cover the photo of G. Agnelli on his boat, wearing a classic 6263 with silver dial. A simple photo tha

The Rolex “special deliveries” are very appreciated by collectors because of their rarity of course, but also because they are the ultimate expression of the concept of toolwatch , which has made Role

Why are some of us strangely attracted to vintage watches and especially vintage Rolex ? Maybe because we know that in the early days, these toolwatches were only worn by professionals in the kind of

Introduction Paul Newman first got serious about motorsports in 1968 while making Winning (1969), which revolved around the 1968 Indianapolis 500, but he wasn't really able to begin racing until four

here's an interesting one....who said legendary ? (Photos fantastictime) This message has been edited by DrStrong on 2009-01-06 23:15:00 This message has been edited by DrStrong on 2009-01-14 00:48:50