Rolex AD "Fung Leung Kee" in HK

"Fung Leung Kee Watch Company" was established since 1943, and has been operating for over 74 years. Located in a self-owned property at 157 Johnston Road, Central Wanchai,  It is the agent of various brands Rolex, Tudor, Rado, Longines, Tissot, Gucci, Oris and Seiko.

Here we can see the first picture of their shop who was amidst of the 1967 riots and the latest picture I told in Nov 2016.

They have been standing there to witness the changes of HK over the 3 quarters of the century, one thing remains unchanged, they sell Rolex!

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Woo Kwok-hing and his Rolex Day Date in 18KT white Gold

Hong Kong's Retired judge Woo Kwok-hing became the first candidate to declare his campaign for Chief Executive Election on 27 October 2016.

Note what he wears: a Rolex Day Date 18KT white gold.

I can't tell the exact model, but likely that is the same one as I am wearing Ref 18039.

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LNIB Rolex Daytona Stainless Steel Ref 116520LN on sale

This is a 2015 Daytona bought in Switzerland, has been using four times only.

Like new.

Full Set for sale.

HK Snob

Watch Restoration

Before Polishing

Before Polishing

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After Polishing

 

After Polishing

After Polishing

When your watch has been used for ten, twenty years, it would carry some of your historical MARKS or Activities Records in form of hair line scratches....or even dents.

Well, it could be OK as this is a watch that cannot be perfectly no scratches, but to certain extent, that day comes that you cannot tolerate it ... or you want to put a new clothes on it...

you can consider Polishing it...

No matter Rolex, Tudor, Cartier, IWC, AP, VC, they can be sent to their Dealer Service centre to make a polishing, but we can also offer a fast and special hand polishing service for it.

If there is serious dents or damages that some of the corner sharpness is worn off, gone... we can use Laser wedding to weld then re-polishing it as NEW...

For PWC members, I can take care of it to bring to one of the BEST service centres in Hong Kong, or I should say in Asia to make a special handling for it.

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HKWF wish you all the best in the Year of Rooster

To all HKWF readers,  fb friends, Blog supporters, partners, my watch buyers, dealers, friends in authorized dealer shops collectors and members of all PWC.

I hereby wish you had a terrific year of Rooster. Wish you had good health, and a lot of watches.

HK Snob



It is your character, your choice for the watch

Over the past 15 years watches were made in various levels of Complexity, single tourbillon became two, then four, will the Quad tourbillon would have a four times better in time accuracy, big question. But definitely a Quad Tourbillon will fascinate your eyes, and 10 times more expensive!

There is a trend going Minimalism, that is a tool that can assist you in finding freedom. Freedom from the trappings of the consumer culture we’ve built our lives around.

Why IWC does not provide us thin dress watch with simple with fine italic engraved as “International Watch Co.  Schaffhausen”…on the dial? IWC has changed his customer profile target to the younger one with watch made bigger, using new material… ceramic, carbon composite, bronze and plastic…while some of the other watch makers Audemars Piguet, is still very cautious about choosing these material on their watches.  

As there is people including me who fed up with the watch price that makes your tongue stretched out touching your nose…with a simple tourbillon watch with US$50,000, a Stainless steel watch with just two hands and blue dial is US$30,000!

I sometimes find watches that is fun to wear if that is more or less clean dial, easy to read time, precision, lasting and can be used for many decades, preferably automatic but I don't mind hand winding, while I still afford it.

Nomos Lambha

A Simple watch with just a few functions with a simple leather strap might be classified Materialism if that is over US$10,000.  There is a few available on hand which is clean, beautiful and classic…That is  materialism because it is over US$10,000.  Some of the samples are shown here.

Minimalism is materialism in this case!

People born in a year of the Rooster are very observant. Hardworking, resourceful, courageous, and talented. Sometimes I feel they are over confident and may impose some unintentional hurt to people reading. In short they might be too much Ostentatious that some people may not like… if that is the case, I will say regret to them. And I belong to this year, and over the years if there is something I say in appropriate, please accept my apologies. Being a Blogger, there is no way to please everyone in the internet.

Roosters are very confident in themselves, make yourself confident about yourself, wear whatever you like, Patek Philippe, Rolex, IWC, Nomos, Omega, SevenFriday, A Lange, Paneria , Roger Dubuis, Richard Mille, G-Shock, Jaeger LeCoultre… whatever as it is your choice as a buying decision from your character.

Kung Hei Fat Choy! 

HK Snob

Rolex Day Date Ref 18038 Bloodstone on sale Full Set

Rolex Day Date Ref 18038 90's in Yellow Gold Full Set on Sales

Watch is Belonging to one of my friends in Dubai.

US$36,000

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Minimalist can be materalist!

Rolex Submariner Ref 16610LN Full Set with Patina Dial on Sale

HK$53,000

Minimalism is a tool that can assist you in finding freedom. Freedom from the trappings of the consumer culture we’ve built our lives around. Real freedom.

Minimalist can be materialist!?

That doesn’t mean there’s anything inherently wrong with owning material possessions…, Want to own a car or a house? Great, have at it! Want to raise a family and have a career? If these things are important to you, then that’s wonderful. Minimalism simply allows you to make these decisions more consciously, more deliberately. Recently there are a lot of Minimalists in Japan, they have only 4 white shirt, two pair of shoes, 4 pair of socks, no TV, no air-con, their room looks empty, they enjoy so much and they feel great by owning less, they sleep better and they feel like less things to worry about.

There are plenty of successful minimalists who go different lives. Colin Wright owns 51 things and travels all over the world, and Tammy Strobel and her husband live in a “tiny house” and are completely car-free. Even though each of these people are different, a friend of mine has recently told me he is Minimalist, as he has only Rolex Day Date but many!

Minimalism and miser is slightly different, I had seen a rich guy who earns US$900,000  a year keep wearing the same winter jacket for the past years, every time when temperature drops to 12 Deg C or below, I can see that jacket!

Buddha is typical a minimalism, in the end, only three things matter. How much you loved. How gently you lived and how gracefully you let go of things not meant to you.

Well, to make it short: Minimalism has allowed minimalists to pursue purpose-driven lives.

So Being a Rolex Lover, can I be a Minimalist?

Yes under limited budget, why not narrow down your collection on just one particular model you like most.

As if you buy everything, you may be Jack of all trades, master of none.

HK Snob



Rolex Date Just Ref 6694 with arms of Government of Abu Dhabi

A 1960 rare Rolex Date Just with arms of Government of Abu Dhabi on the dial.

It is an Oyster Date Just Manual winding watch, in excellent condition.

It is on Sale.

HK Snob



Rolex Day Date isn't for "Old Cakes"

Swiss Watch Giant Rolex makes almost 1,000,000 watches a year, being one of the most prestigious brands in the World, the remarkable shift that has allowed Rolex to be the watchmaker of choice for everyone from Rich men’s kid, men start to earn his first monthly salary, Sales man, engineers, Doctor, scientist, bankers, religion leader, watch collectors, communist revolutionaries, you and me.

Rolex offers broad range of different prices to meet most of the people who can afford;  an elementary level Oyster Perpetual, or a Date Just, sport model as mid range that  can capturing most if the younger generation to get crazy for to certain high end luxury model made of precious metals even paved with diamonds. As Rolex Watch of US$4,000 to US$0.5M. It is still a Rolex, not as price-unfriendly as a Lamborghini at least.

The top of the line is Day Date, who was named a President’s Watches as most of the US Presidents got one or a few. I haven’t seen Donald Trump wears a Rolex in public, but I am sure he has Day Date in his drawer.

Day Date is being acknowledged as best of the Rolex in terms of function, and image as that is why these certain people, JFC, Li Pope John Paul II to communist tyrants Mao Zedong* has it.

Legend has it that the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, owns a collection of 15 Rolexes.  Dalai’s holyness’ first timepiece was a gift from former U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 as a symbol of secure relations between the U.S. and Tibet appeared to be gold Rolex. You’ll see that his holiness wears them reversed, with the face turned inwards on his wrist so as to not appear ostentatious.

 

There is always a saying which I have been always called not quite right as people in HK called a Day Date an “old cake’s watch” Old Cake” in HK ‘s colloquial means those people who is over 55 or above. I can really say that might be true also as who can easily afford to buy a US$30,000 Day Date? Might be someone who can afford wear a Day Date is those who reach certain age that at same time certain salary level. But Nowadays, we see a lot of younger people in age of 30-40 wearing Day Date.

A Day Date is really a very pleasant watch to use, it is perpetually beautifully, comfortable, can be worn without much care, they are one of the beloved items for Rolex Watch Lovers,  connoisseur, well, they are not necessary rich, as I know a lot of Rich man who can afford to buy but they will not wear a Day Date. I know a man who earns USD$3M a year, he wear a US$300 Tissot, he enjoys, why not then…

A Day Date Entry level is low as if you are looking into ordinary dial such as the Champagne gold,

Say a Ref 1803 is Champagne gold dial is about US$5,000, but a White Gold with Bloodstone dial may go up to US$35,000 or more.

A Vintage Day Date with an original Warranty paper may top up 20% more on the price,

Go to buy a Day Date with Lapis Azuli Dial in BNIB, still available in very small quantity in Hong Kong, may be two pieces in all 78 Rolex AD shops in HK.

When you travel, if you are lucky to see a NOS Day Date in Coral or Bloodstone Dial, anything under US$30,000, buy it…

I am sure you will earn money by selling it.

PS

DD- Day Date

NOS- new old stock

BNIB- brand new in box

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Remarks * Chairman Mao’ s usual watch in fact is an  Omega Sea Master which was given as gift by Kowk Mui Yek.

HK Snob