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

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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