As you probably know, Rolex has Rolex Sports Models Seadweller SS RX407 watches their hand in some great sporting events across the world, and to the winner typically goes a watch. One such event is the Rolex Swan Cup Regatta hosted in Costa Smeralda biennially, and as you may remember, we actually found a Swan Cup winner's Rolex Explorer.Today we've come across another former champion's Rolex, and this time prize reflects the venue precisely. In fact, it doesn't get any closer than this. The watch we are talking about is the Rolex Daytona given to the winner of a race called 24 Hours at Daytona, which is more officially known as "The Rolex 24 at Daytona". This particular watch was given to The Racer's Group, who won the event back in 2003 behind the wheel of a Porsche 911 GT3-RS. Now we don't know Rolex Sports Models Seadweller SS RX407 watches which of the four team members this Rolex belonged to, but it does come with letters from the driver, signed photographs, and the original guarantee. The front of the watch is a beautiful white stainless steel Daytona, but is really the back that makes this watch so incredible. Engraved right in the middle are the words "Winner Rolex at Daytona 24 2003".The price on this particular Rolex isn't listed but you can be sure you'll pay a hefty premium for a Daytona won at Daytona. To view more details of this historic and extremely cool Rolex, click here.Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page.
We are oft confronted with people at cocktail parties that do not wear mechanical watches but rather use their mobile phone as a time-telling device. This is fine, as we've said many times, we are not "watch snobs" here at Hodinkee, we fully respect people's personal preferences. However, many times people take things one step further and refer to watches as jewelry, implying the prices you pay for Rolex Sports Models Seadweller SS RX407 watches complex mechanical pieces in no way reflect the workmanship, and that gets under our skin.Jewelry has no moving parts, it is designed, molded, and sold. With a watch, there are hundreds of pieces (648, in this case) that fall into place to make it function properly. Watch is mechanical engineering of the highest order compressed into 42mm of space. We launched Hodinkee because we wanted to call attention to some of the history and work that goes into a fine watch, and we can't think of a better way to show you what's Rolex Sports Models Seadweller SS RX407 watches involved than with the video below from TheTimeTV.This particular watch, an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Grande Complication, yields a split-seconds chronograph, a minute repeater, and a perpetual calendar with moon phases that will remain accurate until March 1st, 2100, at which point only one adjustment has to be made for it to remain precise for another 100 years. Can your David Yurman necklace do that?Next time someone refers to a watch as nothing more than jewelry, show them this video.
