What if I had US$1m, what Shall I do...?

Rolex Fantasy

What is I had US$1M?

What Shall I do with this money!?

Immediately, I would in no time go to buy a Rolex Day Date Platinum Dream watch with Lapis Lazuli Dial, I need a bit more fancy to have Diamond bezel.

Well, A do not mine to get a Ref 1803 Stella Brunswick green dial and some sands at the Hour index!

I would go to buy with some of the money for a Lamborghini Countach 1977 Yellow or Purple!

I will buy a Koetsu Jade MC cartridge, and likely a nice house that I can put JBL 4350 loudspeaker!

Take a ticket to St. Petersburg to listen to the Tchaikovsky No. 6 Symphony with one of the Russian Blonde….

Go to listen Ma Yo Yo live on his Cello show and discuss with him about his Philosophy on wearing Rolex at back stage. US$1M is barely can do the about things as home in HK is expensive! and If I had somemore money...

Hi Paul, wake up! Day dreaming!

It is time to write your weekly report or you will lose your job!!

HK Snob

Sheep Skin to Clean or Wipe Your Expensive Watches

Sheep Skin has a very fine and smooth surface texture!

Watch Cleaning Cloth Or Sheep Shin?

How should clean your precious watches, by using your cuff, your silk tie? Your handkerchief!? Tissues paper!? Worse is Tissue paper can could scratch your watch! Don't do that!

How about Eye glass cleaning cloth made with polyester!? Or simply a piece of sheep skin!?

Anything would not be soft enough as the sheep skin, and it does not create abrasion that result with scratches on your watch, It cleans and will not leave a trace of oil like film on the crystal!

The Sheep skin is having some super soft tissue and it does not hold tiny metal debris, sand, whatever that would leave the polished surface of your Rolex a permanent mark.

The sheep skin can be washed with light detergent and dry for next usage, each piece could be used for 5-10 years! Patek philippe, Audemars Piaget, Rolex Shop are using this to wipe the watches.

Price is about HKD$240 a piece.   Each piece could be cut into four portions of small size for your watch cleaning!

We can use this to wrap your expensive watch for storage!

HK Snob

Rolex Day Date Ref 18238 comes with Lapis Lazuli Dial

A Belgian Jewelry and watch Dealer is intending to sell this piece of brand new Rolex Ref 18238 to the watch connoisseur.
Price is Euro 55,000!
Interested Party can contact me.
HK Snob

A Really kick Ass Rolex for Crazy Rolex Collector and blogger Watch Fever Ref 18346

How to tell by cosmetic difference on Rolex Platinum and White Gold Day-Date?

Chemical Properties

The symbol of platinum is Pt and its atomic number is 78. It's a naturally occurring metal and has a very high density of 21.4 g/cubic cm. It is Grey white originally with a specific gravity of 21.4. It is a very rarely found metal and may cause some allergic reactions in some people. It has a boiling point of 3800º C and a melting point of 1772º C. Its atomic mass is 195.078 amu.

The chemical symbol of gold is Au and atomic number is 79. White gold has to be synthesized from natural gold by mixing various combination of 75% of natural gold with 25% of platinum or palladium and another combination can be 75% of natural gold with 10% of palladium, 10% of nickel and 5% of zinc. 

That is another reason that a White Gold Day Date is usually more expensive than a Yellow gold Day Date by HKD$22,000.

Natural gold's density is 19.3 g/cubic cm. It has a specific gravity of 19.32. Its melting point is 1064.43º C and boiling point is 2807º C. Its atomic mass is 196.96657 amu. This element rarely causes any allergic reactions.

Physical Properties

Platinum is a whitish silvery metal and more lustrous than white gold.

When white gold is coated with rhodium, it becomes as shiny as platinum.

A white gold ornament has to be periodically polished with rhodium to maintain its luster.

Platinum being naturally lustrous does not need any coating at any point of time.

Platinum is heavier and harder than white gold.

Tooling Concern

That is why one set of Rolex Tooling can make ten White Gold Day Date cases but just three for Platinum Day Date Cases for  the same set of tooling. That is another reason why Rolex Platinum is more expensive than White gold, approximately 1.5 times.

Collector’s Item: Platinum

So as for Collectors, Platinum Day Date case is a practically non-destructive it would wear for years and hard to be wear off. It is Sturdy, and lustrous that is why all Ultimate Collector’s item are highest in price for Platinum.

So From Outlook we can tell that a grey Silvery colour is Platinum

A White shinny outlook is White gold, even Whiter than Stainless steel 960L

Another cosmetic inspection to tell which is Rolex Platinum or White Gold Day-Date

By looking at the length of the rectangular Diamond at 6 O’clock and 9 o’clock position.

Platinum Day Date has a LONGER diamond whereas White gold is shorter

Refer to the attached pictures.

This is a really Kick Ass Rolex Platinum Ref 18346 Vintage Rolex Day Date, very very fine watch for collector, with Diamond Bezel, Diamond Dial, A Work horse for work, for Kung Fu practice with Ip Chun, or Swimming, or Going Himalaya, or to conduct a Product Presentation in front of Customer...

I think if we have money, Don;t miss the chance to buy it. It is like Diamond of Rolex!

Again, I have too many rich man's hobbies and I have only a few dollars in my pockets! Well, if you had a lot of money, that would not be so much fun as you can buy everything.

The Process to saving up money and buy what so called a Dream Watch is real fun too.  Of course this is Chinese Ah Q spirit... sorry only thing a poor snob can say!

Paul, Buy it if the price is below HKD$170,000!... I support you!!!!

HK Snob

What Matters Most is Material of Dial and The Case for the True Value of A Day Date

What Really Matter for Vintage Rolex is Colour of the Dial and Material for the Watch!

That is to our experience that the Colour of the dial, material of the dial and material of the Watch would determine the price of the Watch.

It is hard to point out the price of the watch and the material of the watch would draft a rough price level of it.

Platinum, very little of production, very high price!

White gold, much lesser than Yellow gold, but more than Platinum, middle price level

Yellow gold, a lot. Lower price

Dial, Lapis Blue with good gold dust distribution, highest price,

Then we can have African Mahogany, Birch, Oak, Stella Red, green blue…etc

Attached is Rolex Ref 18238 Yellow Gold with Aventurine dial, in mint condition, price HKD$130,000.

The one on right is my daily work horse now as my Ref 19049 Was sold already, OK as I made some profit after using for four years. See! What a good investment by buying Vintage Rolex Day Date!?

HK Snob

Titanic Last Supper Menu Auction for RMB200,000, What if there was a found Rolex On board?

                                      RMS Titanic taken right after the maiden Voyage

Last Supper Menu, Auctioned for RMB 200,000

Margaux 1900 on the Right, RP 100 points Wine

After 100 years of sunk Titanic, in 2012, R.M.S. Titanic 100 years of fact & fiction at Bonhams auction.

Items were Virgin voyage ticket, SOS telegram, and Supper Menu, from the salvage of the ship.

This last supper has 40 dishes, that includes fillet of Duckling, Sirlion of Beef, Surrey Capon and Ox Tongue… it was printed the Say the ship was sunk. April 12. 1912.

There has been still a lot of goods to be found for auction item, I was still imagine that if Rolex had invented the Waterproof case some 30 years ago, I believe there will be many as hundreds of Titanic Rolex to be auctioned. There should have been a lot of Patek philippe, Audemars Piguet, Vacheron Constantin, Breguet on board, but those are damages in the salt water even for days after the accident.

On the other hand, there might have some undamaged Champagne by Don Perignon that is still drinkable if we could found, as I think that there is chances some of the bottle are still remained in good conditioned after the shop was sunken into the cold water of Atlantic Ocean.

I am sure that it may carry some 1900 Margaux which is still Young by 2020, and it is still not yet ready to be opened for drinking. Margaux 1900 is First Growth. Premier Grand Cru Classe in 1855.

Margaux 1900 was told have just 5 Bottles kept in one Cellar. I believe if this is taken from the sunken Titanic, it would be a sky high auction price. HKD$8,000,000!

What is the estimated price for an Auction items of Titanic Rolex, I think it easily reach HKD$1,000,000!

HK Snob

Breget Ring Watch that has Alarm Function with diameter of 2.3 cm

A very unique Yellow Gold Watch in a form of a ring, with Diameter of 2.3 cm.
The Right crown is used for manual winding and alarm reset. The crown on the left set the alarm time.
The alarm is quiet actually as it will energize a small protruding notch to stimulate your finger to alert you as the alarm. is that a genius design!?
It was sold to Prince Alexandre Demidoff on 18 Oct 1836.
HK Snob

Tudor Watch that would not produce any more, a last chance to buy these at Rolex ADs in Hong Kong

This is the last production lot of Tudor watch, an unique young design for those who would like to put this as part of the clothe assessories.
Would you consider?, this is available in one of the Rolex AD in Kowloon.
Don't worry , this is not those watches being snapped away Friday moring in one Rolex AD at TST!
Price is from HKD$55,000 to HKD$65,000
We may be able to get less 10%!
Don't miss the chance.
These are going to be discontinued.
HK Snob

Rolex Gift Pen as Souvenir, no more available nowadays

This is Rolex Gift Pen, silvery chased body with touch of gold design at top some what like Cartier Pasha pen.
A gift from Rolex.
HK Snob

Tsim Sha Tsui Rolex AD lost 240 Tudor Watches in 180-seconds Raid by three masked Chinese suspects

In a smash-and-grab that took three thieves just 180 seconds, A luxury watch Rolex AD in a Tsim Sha Tsui Holiday Inn hotel lost 240 Tudor valued HKD$6.5M.

Surveillance video shows the three men in masks, caps and gloves entering the arcade by a rear entrance at about 6.20am. 16 Aug 2013.

They then used large hammers to shatter the glass door of the shop before smashing open three display cabinets and scooping up the watches.

The burglars fled along Mody Road, got into a grey van at the junction with Bristol Avenue and drove off in the direction of Chatham Road South. Police said they were Chinese aged about 40 and roughly 1.7 metres tall. Only the Tudor watches were taken, however, as the Rolexes were locked in a vault when the raiders struck.

The West Kowloon crime unit is asking any witnesses to the latest raid to call them on 2761 2227.

If you were asked to buy some unidentified Tudor, Pls beware that there might be coming from the the thief!! All watchas has record on the serial numbers that they can be traced!

Tsim Sha Tsui Snob