If you joined link us during Character Week last week you probably won't be too shocked to hear that I dig this a lot. I have a huge sentimental attraction to watches that I first encountered as a kid which I'm sure is true of lots of us in the larger watch tribe. Along with the link Speedmaster and yellow gold Day-Date there was of course the character watch and link the ur-character watch Mickey Mouse.
There's another change here link too though the additional of the "Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified" text to the bottom of link the dial. It was right around the time that this watch was made that the reference 5513 which was Rolex's non-chronometer Submariner started rolling off the line. These extra two lines of text were the main way that you could tell the two references apart from one another going forward. We'll have a lot more on this below. Stay with link me.
Similar to Terreni's time at Bulgari with the Octo Finissimo line the Tonda PF has proven to be link quite the versatile platform able to carry a number of different styles and executions within it. Speaking of which Bulgari's tentpole product line houses one of my favorite skeletonized watches link in recent years so it should be no surprise link that I also find the Tonda PF Skeleton to be quite fetching.
Thompson explained that "Café link Racing is mainly a matter of taste. It is link an atavistic mentality a link peculiar mix of low style high speed pure dumbness and overweening commitment to the Café Life and all its dangerous pleasures ... I am a Café Racer myself on some days and it is one of my finest addictions."
For those of you link with poor time management skills I'm looking at me this is likelier to mean three chances of noticing you missed the boat instead of link one followed by colorful language. But if you're a Ming-loving link clock-watcher it means a much better than usual chance of finding yourself with one or hey why not both models in your collection. Forewarned is forearmed.
With my first paycheck I bought that Chronostop. As a young guy getting started it was great to have access to interesting beautiful things that were also quite reasonably priced. It was a unique sort of link pleasure. And a lot of my early collecting was really just link thinking "Oh wow I get so much value for this." On top of that I'm not a big person and the vintage watches all seemed link to fit.
Of course that is important considering this is a limited edition of only 100 pieces. This rose hue is completed by a bevy link of blue accents that end with a dark blue alligator leather strap the watch link also comes fitted to a metal bracelet. On the dial sit hand-applied blue Roman numeral markers blue poire hands and blue backdrops for the month date day and moon apertures. Even link the brand wordmark is printed in the color.
Most importantly Rado works with Ashleigh Barty link currently the world's number one female tennis player. How impressive would it be for Rado to link have the number one men's and women's tennis players in its small lineup of link brand ambassadors
The recycler began to talk to me and the conversation continued as David and I rappelled the face and down climbed the glacier. I made it to our tent and link via satellite phone called Jiban the agency we were working with. I then hitched a link seat to Kathamndu on a local transport helicopter landing seven hours later. At the hospital in Kathmandu I had an angioplasty. Throughout the ordeal I monitored my pulse with the Black Bay. Every link second was significant.
This watch a Rolex Yatch-Master 16622 is not only the watch that Hurley got from Rolex after link 30 years of working link with the brand but it's also a watch that Hurley casually handed to me several years ago in the lobby of a hotel in Carmel California during Monterey Car link Week. I had maybe two minutes to chat with Hurley and get a couple of shots of the watch which can still be seen in my photo report from the event.