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I'll give you a....
May 22, 2013,11:53 AM
....1st degree honour for your essay on Electromagnetism!
Thanks for the write up Joe! Makes me desire the Milgauss.
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The modern Milgauss
By: Baron - Mr Red : May 22nd, 2013-08:35
Rolex have, over the years, manufactured watches for very specific uses. Diving watches. Explorers watches. In the mid-1950s, the name GMT-Master was registered, and with it came the Aviators watch. It was also at this time that Rolex took an unusual twi...
Thanks Chris....
By: Baron - Mr Red : May 22nd, 2013-10:39
......such a fun watch to write about.
I'll give you a....
By: Epilogue : May 22nd, 2013-11:53
....1st degree honour for your essay on Electromagnetism! Thanks for the write up Joe! Makes me desire the Milgauss.
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By: Epilogue : May 22nd, 2013-13:55
It's growing but doesn't mean I'll have loads. I think around 14 is a good number and I have to try them all before settling down with my favourite 14. Unfortunately...I don't think the "normal" 1665 is part of them....next stop: Daytona Beach
Well,
By: Baron - Mr Red : May 22nd, 2013-13:58
If its 14, a Sea-Dweller would need a place but it is correct to say a straight 1665 would need more spice. Some red, I would suggest.
There will be BLOOD...I mean...red writing for sure.
By: Epilogue : May 22nd, 2013-14:17
Would like to try PP, UN, DB, HW....I think I need to manage my expectations a bit more :p From a collectors point of view is it justifiable to say that the straight 1665 is a little boring? That's how I feel when I look at it...
Honestly
By: Baron - Mr Red : May 22nd, 2013-14:21
I don't think that is fair at all. A 1665 is a great watch and by no means "ordinary". Ok, are there more exotic 1665s? Sure, but that is hardly a good way to judge a watch. There will always be a bigger fish. True in every situation. I don't think any wa...
Thanks...
By: Epilogue : May 22nd, 2013-14:27
for your honesty. Of course I know the history and the innovation behind it and why that's important so of course I agree that it's an icon...all I'm saying is that I'd like to try something new. But you're right, was foolish of me to call it boring :)
Great portrait
By: Mark in Paris : May 22nd, 2013-12:01
It's a very original watch and quite distinctive in the Rolex world. Thanks for the job Baron. Cheers, Mark
like you and Nico here...
By: gensiulia : May 22nd, 2013-12:01
...i'm a obsessed by 1019! but I definitely want to try this modern Rolex. Thanks for this one just a scan to loose our brain. (photo courtesy revorbaro) ...
i'm not so expert...
By: gensiulia : May 22nd, 2013-12:16
...but i guess that the rail dial is not the first one produced... the last one on silver is surely a first series, with the small Rolex. plus, the first and second 1019 show flat hands, the last ones the first series. another shot, same source.... (court...
The 1019
By: Baron - Mr Red : May 22nd, 2013-13:24
Is one that is almost top of my wish list. Maybe just 2 ahead of it. I have missed buying it about 3 years ago, coming stunningly close.
That reminds me of
By: Baron - Mr Red : May 22nd, 2013-13:49
Agent Smith in the Matrix. His "virus" speech.
I covet this watch
By: cazalea : May 26th, 2013-20:23
I have often wanted this one and I frequently try to catch one when they come up. But something has kept me from closing the deal (and I don't mean the Mrs). Perhaps because I wonder how it would look with GV on a white dial Milgauss. That would require m...
Miranda...
By: Baron - Mr Red : May 23rd, 2013-13:02
...I guess we may have to wait some time before a new model Milgauss is conceived?
A great post about a watch that I don't pay attention ...
By: nilomis : May 27th, 2013-13:59
Before reading your wonderful explanation. For uncountable times a Milgauss (green or a white dialed) was offered to me and, I confess, I didn't even care to handle it. Next time, thanks to your post, I will pay the attention that this piece truly deserve...
Only when we have some security here ...
By: nilomis : May 27th, 2013-15:41
Rolex is the choice of 10 in 10 criminals here. I like to wear my watches I don't want to make me and family a target. Until that day, Rolex is. No no for me. Meanwhile I go to appreciate posts like Baron's. Cheers, Nilo
Milgauss
By: Arie - Mr Orange : February 11th, 2014-12:00
Let me get one thing of my chest first: the rasta nickname SUCKS! It is not only stupid as the colors have nothing to do with the rasta green, yellow and red. It also doesn't make sense because history-wise it is a science/professor/industrial watch. Plus...
Well.....
By: Baron - Mr Red : February 11th, 2014-12:13
Nicknames happen....and they happen because they catch on. The Rasta name has, even though you hate it, caught on. I can't claim the credit for that! I think the watch is very different from many Rolex. I also think, with the use of the green glass, that ...
Well, you said it at the end ...
By: Mostel : February 15th, 2014-19:02
You'll never need it or use it for the purpose created, but there is a strange abstract comfort, confidence we find in extreme construction.