細數香港六七十年代名錶

Cyma司馬錶
賭仔大忌，瑞士"輸馬錶"，影响至深，直到今天，你在馬會馬場內也找不到此錶的影踪!

Citizen星辰錶
吾知邊個衰神改其錶名"衰神表"國內叫"西鐵成"，吾知同中國近來的"向西"文化有無閒係呢?

得其利是Tugaris

"戴瑞士得其利是，利利是是"。成功的名字。

Octo樂都錶
瑞士樂都錶，報時準確!

Technos.悉奴時
身為下屬戴最好，悉奴時，悉撈之士也!

Orient 東方錶
這和香港東方錶行無關係的，東方錶是一家老牌日本製錶公司。好準的又好實用的。

Sandoz山度士
有別Cartier的 Santos, 一家生產四線的錶品牌，現在已不是瑞士做了，在上海街一帶仍有錶店設有山度士的專櫃。

Rodania 雷電錶
你見過未?，你層經戴過未?

Vacheron Constantin江絲丹頓
六七十年代氣勢盍天的名表，怎致無和Patek Philippe不分伯仲，後來來港表叔稱之為"勞絲丹頓"，前國家主席温家堡手上的名錶是也。

Favre-Leuba非凡錶
我好中意錶面那行字仔。錶名亦改得好聽!

Enica瑞士英納格錶。有人話: 戴英納格，無尼貴格!
戴英納格人仕曰: 英納格，夠型又夠格!

Titus鉄達時
八十年代的"天長他久"係例。謀殺了不少二多歲年青人的苛包，男女各戴住一隻對庄的錶，有人重竟然同時穿上情呂裝，真係羡殺旁人。而家鉄達時錶面已找不到Swiss Made 字仔。大家明喇!

Longines浪琴錶
六十年代做得好成功下。八十年代康卡斯石英錶Conquest RHP，用钛和黃金打造，又薄又準，五年不用換電，錶名靚，又浪漫，浪琴令女士想起"浪人"，即吾洗負責任，趙完鬆果隻，又想起"吹口琴"，好多性幻想啊! 好名，好錶，有味!。

Omega阿米加
一度比勞力士訂價高的錶。六十年代阿米加是錶中之皇，Constellation 5 星八卦面18K。今日來看重係禁靚。六九年登陸月球把阿米加品牌推到高峰。八十年後被勞力士的氣勢盍過了。

Seiko 精工錶
六七十年代最多水爺(海員)走水貨去菲洲，走Seiko 5號好好賺。而家重有自動的精工5賣，真係史上最長壽的生產手錶!
當'年電視精工錶廣告: 精工錶，任撞任浸!

IWC 萬國錶
上年紀的極不喜歡這名字，原因同紅碪一XX館同名。有人建議IWC 改名。我建議除去中文錶名即可。或者叫"國際"，有"kor tsai" 好玩之意。

ROAMER 羅馬錶
瑞士的，並非意大利表，傳葉問戴過，而家是洪金寶做代言人。

Ernest Borel依波路
瑞士老牌四十到六十年代好行，近期品牌有所動作，有東山再起。依波路，性感名錶，寬衣後碧波大露!

Tittoni梅花錶
六十年代澳門綠邨講錯(廣播)電台廣告曰:
瑞士梅花嘜錶，梅係梅花個梅，花係梅花個花。

市井之徒或往澳門輸了錢的人齊說: 
類事梅花錶、梅係梅毒個梅，花係花柳個花!



問題A
那一隻瑞士名錶至今在港都仲未有中文譯名的?

問題B
為什麼吾講勞力士，大概你也明白。因為我已經講得太多了。

床邊耳語
男: 依波路，浪琴?
女: 要蕭邦嗎?
男 大悅!

註:
這都是六七十年代記起的住事，絕對無一些詆毀錶品牌之意。以上所有的錶，除了江絲丹頓外, (八十年代一隻"江山輸盡"實在好貴!)
其它全部都層經擁有過，粒粒都係好錶!


問題A答案是Swatch!

HK Watch Fever

HK Snob

Kung Fu Master Deg Student

A Strap of your Wristwatch

A Classic Cartier Santos

In 1904, the Hot air balloon pilot Alberto Santos-Dumont complained to his friend Louis Cartier that while he was flying with both hands on the controls, it was impossible to read the time on his pocket watch. This was the trigger of the very first wristwatch Louis Cartier made for his Brazilian Friend.

It was sold from 1911 as the Santos, and was the first watch with leather bracelet attachment horns integrated into the case. The Santos carries a distinctive feature of Cartier: a sapphire cabochon on the winding crown. After 103 years, still, this Cartier Santos seems never lose glory and style as it is still a Classic iconic Watch from Cartier.

Nowadays, a strap is perhaps is less expensive but is an indispensable component of a wristwatch.  Watch Straps can be easily changed to suit your taste, styles or outfits…it comes come in a countless variety of colors, materials and design.

Many watch users have overlooked the importance of your watch strap, as if it fails, your expensive 2mm solid gold dress watch will drop onto the concrete ground…

”@&#^#^!” Is that next words I could hear from You!

Watches continued this way for many decades since Santos, but as these gruff “wristlets” sooner evolved to be more refined, detailed, even made as the predominant fashion nowadays. Removable spring bars allowed for changing of straps without rivets in the 30’s.

Most of the straps designs today have not changed much today.Thick leather straps with contrast stitching are often found on beefy sports watches, such as those from Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore, Panerai, U-boat, Bells & Ross…They tend to complement with jean.

Whilst, thinner, more exotic skins are still the choice for high-end dress watches, since they tend to complement a suit with leather shoes and a belt. Not the other way round!

In 1980, seems they are made thinner and less crude, stylish matching with the thin watch as the trend setter: Universal, Piaget, Vacheron Constantin and Audemars Piguet.

Leather Strap material had been using different animal skins, and now straps can be made from cowhide, pony tail, horsehide, crocodile, alligator, snake skin, lizard, stingray and ostrich skin.

 

French Flag NATO Strap on a Vintage Rolex Air King.

A Courtesy Picture from http://blog.trashness.com/

NATO strap

The one-piece cheap NATO nylon straps were first developed for the British military designed to run across the back of a watch and through the spring bars, they may also be the best way to save your watch since if one spring bar breaks, the watch remains on your wrist.

The straps are known as NATO straps because they were given a stock number by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (or No Action Talk Only for best describing my boss) for use by soldiers and divers.

NATO straps have become hugely popular with fashionistas, and are sold in striped patterns colour. Ironically, a HK$200 NATO strap now may be used to carry a HKD$500,000 Submariner!

Rubber

Supple Rubber straps have a long “Marriage relationship” with sports watches and diver watch, cheap comfortable, flexible, resistant to water, sweat or corrosive liquid.

In the 1960s, the first rubber straps were called “Tropic” straps, and the rubber used was stiff and often became brittle after a few years and or under sunshine.

Nowadays, silicone rubber straps can be found on expensive diver watches and can cost ten of thousands of dollars each!

Hints on Maintenance on your watch strap:

A well maintenance watch strap can last for years.

An fine alligator watch strap is expensive, and it has certain limitation in usage.

It does not go well with water or sweat

It absorbs water and sweat, it may create fungi and becoming smelly!

Sweat would corrode the leather especially in the hot and Humid Hong Kong Summer.

It does not like sunshine or it get hardened and cracked easily.

How to keep you expensive watch strap in good shape!?

Like your Ferragamo, leather has life and it has to breathe, give it some rest once in a while.

Use soft tissue paper to absorb the water or sweat immediately.

Put it in ventilated area for drying up

Put some fine soft leather nourishing lotion or shoe shine wax on all the stitches and leather surface, then wipe off with a fine soft cotton cloth.

This will keep you leather strap lasting for many years.

HK Snob
Watch Fever

Rolex DeepSea D-Blue Soon to Arrive HK

The Long waiting Rolex DeepSea D-blue Ref116660 soon to arrive HK, according to one of the major Hong Kong AD Managers told me today, it will be Estimated to reach HK about 10 Sept.
Anyway, once I got the news, I will inform you.
Singapore had the first DeepSea appeared beginning of last week selling at HKD$100,500 estimated after Sin-HK conversion.
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HK price will be HKD$90,500, I think There will be NO Discount!

Please Reserve at your nearby Rolex AD.

And I believe the GMT master II Ref 116710BLNR Black Blue and Submariner Hulk Ref 116610LV should have more stock after the Swiss Summer Vacation!

HK Snob
Watch Fever

Infolinks

Rolex Ref 16613 Submariner 18 KT Two Tone watch on Sale

Rolex Ref 16613 has been one of the best renowned Submariners for those who feel a big different if not for stainless steel.

This Watch comes with S/N WXXXXXX, has just been changed with a brand new bezel and polished for perfect shinning and Oyster case profile by Rolex Service Centre Hong Kong.

It is looking for next watch owner who could possibly take care of it for a few decades whilst this Submariner will take care his master's "Time Keeping!"

All it takes is HKD$42,000 cash for the watch with 11 links of its bracelet, warranty paper, original box and recent Rolex service records, this to tell this watch has been authenticated by Rolex.

HK Snob

Watch Fever

PS

Sold Out

A drop of Loctite threadlocker will save your Rolex from dropping!

This is an accident to get scratches on another friend's beloved GMT Master II,

Since this is new, I suggested him to bring to RSC for FREE Polishing!

 Loctite 242 threadlocker

Have you noticed that your Rolex watch pin for locking up the links were added a drop of threadlocker?

That tiny drop of threadlocker could save your expensive Rolex from loosening and or drop out!

Today my colleague's new GMT Master Black blue was dropped,  luckily onto the carpet!

Simply the Korean Rolex shop staff did not put any threadlocker onto the pin when he bought his watch at Seoul Airport.

In Hong Kong, there are shops don't apply Loctite onto your Rolex. There are also Rolex AD to put Loctite after bracelet lenght adjustment.

I would recommend you to use as the Threadlocker is not adhesive, it prevents pins or screws being loosened. It will not corrode the gold pins or stainless steel pin of your Rolex bracelet. Same for Roger Dubuis, the shop manager at PP helped me to add Loctite too to ensure the massive watch case won't be separated from the leather strap due to loosened gold pin!

Next time, remind your Rolex shop to do it after bracelet length adjustment.

I listen to Aus Pron Star's advice to apply Loctite 242 is it is would not seized on all fine screw Rolex bracelet pin.

As for my big Roger Dubuis, I used Loctite 262 which is a stronger threadlocker as the pin is much thicker and would be unscrewed without difficulties.

 

HK Snob

Rolex Ref 116710BLNR GMT Master II Black Blue on Sale

There are known two pieces of such a BNIB Full Set watch in Town, cash deal HKD$65,300

If you are looking for this Hottest item that you can consider now.

WhatsApp me ASAP!

HK Snob

1978 NOS Rolex Daytona Ref 6263

Enjoy the Sunshine

Daytona

Label is still there as it was in 1978

Flawless Dial

This shocks me as I have never seen vintage watches in such good condition. It was sold in 1978 at USD$695.00

now it may be worth USD$80,000. What a good investment!

Rolex Daytona Ref 6263 NOS 1978. Private Collection of a French.

Thanks for Thierry allowing me to SHOW OFF your watches at my blogs!

HK Watch Fever

HK Snob



Is it easy to Crack a Rolex Crystal?

I don't know how to say, it is hard and it is also very easy.

As it is very hard (second to diamond ) that means it could be brittle!

I have tried to use hammer to wrack the Sapphire crystal, I was quite hard to crack it at all.

My when my daughter used the watch for three days, she brought back to me saying that it was cracked without any notice on how did it happen. I was a bit mad! How could you break it!?

What should we do if the sapphire crystal was cracked?

We should pull out the crown stopping the watch to move as if not the broken sapphire debris would damage the expensive dials by the moving hands.

Send to Rolex Service centre for repair.

It is about HKD$1,500 for a replacement on a Sapphire Crystal, friend of mine had sent his Submariner M116610LN for replacement of the cracked crystal, he had to pay for HKD$5,000, of course, Rolex will ask you to change the water sealing ring, clean it a bit. 3 weeks!

As for my daughter's watch, I sent to a good old watch smith at Sham Shui Po, he immediately replaced for me with Genuine Rolex Crystal, HKD$800  in just 35 minutes.

HK Snob

貴買平用

市面上大約有一萬款面膜，內含蛋白，蜜糖，㛔皇素，蛇胆，青瓜，黃瓜，薏米，蘆薈，靈芝，燕窩的，人參，冬蟲草，蝸牛，田七，保濕厠因子，玻尿酸，尿囊素，水解膠原蛋白，小解尿酸，無良尿素....一堆大家都吾識的名稱加上一些维他命A~Z，無奇不有，再玩落去的有可能會有孔雀屎，或處男尿...。

有試問有多少隻真的對皮膚有效。我吾知，因為無錢買!

有幾款用24KT金做，收你幾百元一片，比錢的開心，收錢者大喜悅，結果呢，客户心情大好，面容改善幾多心中有數，但已值得。無所謂，這些都是上流闊太期待的!
最緊要有地方花大錢! 有得威! 
心情靚而顏面都自然會靚D喇!


試問有多少隻面膜真的使你皮膚改矍變得更滑，更有彈性?  我的確吾知，但你真的看看面膜內包含什麼東西，有何能是强力的防腐劑! 
好似木仍衣的保你持吾變三千年!
或有可能我的"美麗逸記"可能明天變成我的"毁容日記"!



不明白女人買衫，天天買，每星期買，買得好過癮，不错，你上去旺角中心看看，再去PP (Pacific Place) 看看，大有體會。旺角中心T-shirt二十九元，牛仔褲四十五元，PP一件T-shirt 要200至1500元，牛仔褲600到3000元。結果呢，去旺角買衫的人每年平均花費可能比去PP的多。因為平。你會多買; .......平害死人!


勞力士
你一年買幾多隻?平均一年0.1隻。其它人買較平價的錶(1000~3000元)一年可能四隻。十年後的結果。買"勞力士"的手上仍然戴住隻九成五新閃閃零的Rolex!

另外那人，手上仍然戴住一隻幾千元的錶。
因為好多其它的已可能吾行得，吾記得換電漏電瓜左。或者壞左?

這就是"貴買平用"之意。

錢花得值吾值得都是重要的課題!

港璨勞奴

Zenith "ChronoMaster" Chronograph on Sale

Zenith Flagship Series 17.0240.410  ChronoMaster T Chronogrpah Full Calendar in 18KT Rose Gold.

Pre-owned in Mint Condition with box.

Zenith Caliber 410 El Primero , Auto; 40mm

31 jewel; 36,000 vph, power reserve 50 hours

Circa 2010 approx.

Comes with a brand new Croco strap.

Now only HKD$65,000

HK Snob

Reward Peso 5,000,000 for Manny Pacquiao’s Lost Daytona!

Manny's Another Rolex Daytona



Manny Pacquiao lost his Vintage Daytona in a 5 star Hotel in Manila

The message was reported by Blog friend Johnson at Manny’s face book.

From what he said this is a Vintage Rolex, yes, Vintage (model?) Daytona embedded with diamonds.

Question 1

Pacquiao said the watch was Vintage, on he said that the watch was Rolex Cosmograph year model 2010 with serial number G753439 (verified that GXXXXXX is 2010 watch).

Question 2.

He knows this is rare and expensive watch why he put down his watch for hand washing, most of all Rolex is waterproof including this Daytona. Pacman ' watch may have problem in water resistant.
 I never put down my watch in rest room.

Question 3

How much this watch is worth? I really don't know much of vintage Rolex as it depends who wants to buy it at Auction, this watch is at least worth USD$485,000 (according to MP said in his Fb)

Some of places he used to show up, like La Opera at Fort or Wooden Horse Restaurant in Alabang as I have seen his pictures Manny taken with Restaurant’s owner Kochi Tabei hanging at the wall beside the rest room.

Next time I should follow him to the rest room, as he used to have a lot of Expensive Rolex!

This is another Pink gold Rolex (or Yellow Gold)

If you found the watch, you will get the Peso 5M reward.

HK Snob

PS Pacman Found his watch on 26 Aug, and yet who is the lucky one to get the 5M award is not known!

好色的勞力士

勞力士每年都攪攪新意思。而今年一口氣推出五款新錶。

而蓝色似乎喺勞力士今年專注的顏色。

年初的GMT MASTER色 II BLUE BLACK model ref 116710BLNR非常渴市，每月每店只配售二隻。無折頭。只有一錶店提供九五折。

七月中到港SeaDweller 4000就叫好不叫座。只有三兩小貓問價而矣，大概因為當時訂價是嚇人的$78,000! 價格比潛水Submariner 多$16,700, 而只 比Deepsea低$3,700;而後來便知道DeepSea 將大幅加價。

八月頭傳聞的Milgauss 藍面己到，有九五折。真錶比相片靚得多多聲!

而八月四日勞力士在網站站發報2014 DeepSea 藍黑面相片，錶面上半部蓝色，下半部黑色!都幾有創意，DeepSea 能下潛12,000呎，我估潛得深看不到光，所以錶面下半部是黑色的。

八月十八日全港勞力士都有八款錶全面加價，加幅是2.9巴仙到6.7巴仙左右，這是2011年九月到現在第一次加價。請參考付表。

另外116000今年出了三種新色:灰，紫和 金棕色。似乎紫色格外另人喜愛。貨源稀少。

很多人問我買那一隻最好?我問好的意思是"好用"? "好扺"?一或好"投資"?

計我話"好用"是 GMT Master II,

"好靚"是116000 紫色,

好"投資"大可能是DeepSea,

因為多年來DeepSea黑沉沉的錶面有一些人看厭了。但如果你平時拿去戴的話。但當考慮一個5.7兩(216.5grams)重的錶會不會太重呢?

除非你拿去釣魚台潛下去找日本人的足跡，或去濟洲岛扮海女潛水攞海帶。

我建議買Submariner，它真的是最”實用”。而Submariner 新價是$63,900, 仍然比新價格九月中到逽的DeepSea$90,500平宜$26,600! 差不多可以買多人隻116000比你的老友或知己矣!

New List Price in Hong Kong Dollar

116000 Oyster Perpetual 36mm $40,000

116660 -98210 Deepsea Blue $90,500

116660-98210 Black $88,000

116600 SeaDweller 4000

HK$78,800

116400GV-72,400 Milgauss blue dial $61,600

116710BLNR -78200 GMT Master II $67,300

116710LN-78200 GMT Master II GREEN POINTER $63,200

港燦勞奴

五支火柴

五六十年代中國內地資訊並未發達，一般人事手有多手錶大都是內地產品，吉林，中山，南京，上海，杭州是國內有些名氣的，牌子是以當時國營錶廠命名，當時一隻上海十七石上鍊手錶是大約四十圓，那是一個月的普通工人一每月的工資。偶爾看見一些北上的港澳人仕手上地的勞力士，有一普遍稱謂"五支火柴"。

七十年代當時一隻Date Just 1601 大約是一千二百港元。


上面的勞力士商標是一隻1970， 1803勞力士Day Date 保証書

HK Snob

The Ultimate Journey out to the Space!

  

When one was about to ask his wife to give me money to buy a preowned Ferrari 360 yellow with just 36,000KM. with HKD$650,000!, Friend of mine told him his mate had just changed a new Lambor Aventator, he showed the picture on his Iphone4, well, It was a fantastic car, of course, no question about it! How about a Pagani Huayra….

It could not be coming into an end as there are new model of Human’s most expensive Toy for people who like SPEED every years on road.

Whatever car you are driving could not possible be comparable to the experience to be on Virgin Galactic flight into the space.  It could blow off 100,000 litres of fuel to move up high enough to get rid of the Earth’s Gravitational force and spin you out the space with an acceleration of 15G.

Imagine that could be once in life time experience and not too many people could afford to pay for the ticket… I cannot. Not been the ticket going to New Mexico’s departure station in economy class.

I just thought to myself what is the best watch the passenger should wear?

GMT MASTER II? I think that is no use as we don't know how we should set the 2^nd time zone!

Submariner? Day Date? No, I think only one watch a Daytona as you can measure only the flying time and it may be the only watch that it still could be function normally after the Flight….

Oh HK Snob, dream on…

HK Watch Fever
HK Snob
HK Kong Tsaan
HK Sex Kung Fu master (3rd class no honour)

Make your own Watch Strap

Cheong Fat leather Shop, Taken on 17 Aug , Sunday, they don't Open

Rare Rolex pony watch strap

How to make you Watch Strap by yourself!?

A decent thin alligator‘s strap for a thin watch AP is about HKD$2,500

An Original Rolex Pony strap will be about HKD$3,000 if still you can find one Nowadays.

Somehow it is fun too to make your own style of watch strap by yourself, and it may take a while for you to make one perfectly. But that could be fun!

This is a great website that teaches you step by step how to make it…

Though his watch in use is a fake Daytona!

You can buy many type of leather at very good price in this Leather shop at Dundus Street shown here.

Probably the tools too, but I have to find out more later on when I have time.

http://m.instructables.com/id/Leather-Watch-Strap/

HK Watch Fever

HK Snob

Kung Fu Master ( School of No name, 2nd lower honour )