Rolex

I've just come back from the UK a few weeks ago and managed to look at some wonderful vintage Rolexes on New Bond Street and Burlington Arcade.

Here is a shot of one of Asprey's display windows on New Bond St, showcasing a Rolex 'Paul Newman Daytona' in Gold. I dream of this watch and thought this picture would make a nice tribute to a great man, actor and philanthropist.



Paul Newman earned 10 Academy Award nominations but his only Oscar win was for best actor in the 1986 film The Color Of Money with Tom Cruise, portraying the same pool shark, Fast Eddie Felson, he had played when he was nominated in 1961 for The Hustler.

A passionate racing car driver since the early 1970s, Newman became co-owner of Newman-Haas racing in 1982 and also founded Newman's Own, a successful food company he built from the ground up in which all the proceeds go to charity.

More than $US220 million has been given away to humanitarian projects worldwide from sales of salad dressing, pasta sauce, lemonade, popcorn, salsa and wine. In 1988 he started Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a residential summer camp for seriously ill children.

Regards
Rene

and hope his works of charity be there forever

Here's mine.





Best.

Nicolas

I am currently abroad for a big watch meeting, and we learned the sad news when we were just taking pictures of some PN Daytonas...

here is my contribution to the roll call

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Gone but not forgotten