|
|
ROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEX
ROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEXROLEX
26 March 2010, 08:17 AM
|
#1 |
|
2024 ROLEX DATEJUST41 Pledge Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Paris, France
Posts: 34,517
|
Introducing another new Explorer II!
It is with great pleasure that I have the good fortune to introduce you to my new Rolex, the incomparable polar white Explorer II.
The watch was a birthday present from my beautiful wife, and a total surprise. I was completely thrown off by it being in a crumpled bag next to a few b-day drawings from my kids. Now the pressure is on!! Her birthday is in about three weeks....Oy!  My son, whose birthday is a couple weeks before mine and for which he got a Batman watch, was not impressed by the Explorer II....He said something like "Just white?? Where's Batman? Not even Spiderman?"I joined this forum two days after receiving this amazing piece and I've become obsessed....My wife is completely bewildered. She didn't think there were forums where people posted regularly about watches. I tell her it's her fault that I'm a TRF'er now. Just wait until I start coming home with watches to start my collection!  Anyway, thanks for being such a welcoming group, and for sharing your knowledge and good nature. All the best! A few pictures.....I'm not a pro photographer like some of you, but I'm sure you can relate to the excitement I was feeling while taking these shots.   
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 08:22 AM
|
#2 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Real Name: Chad
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Watch: Rolex, PAM, Omega
Posts: 1,607
|
Awesome! Congrats!!
__________________
Rolex P-Series SS GMT II Black, Rolex Y-Series Sea-Dweller, Rolex F-Series TT Blue Sub, Rolex F-Series Sub LV, Rolex D-Series Ladies SS/WG DJ for wife, Panerai K-Series PAM 112, Omega Speedmaster Pro 3570.50, Omega Seamaster 300M Chrono 2594.52 
|
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 08:29 AM
|
#3 | ||
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
Real Name: Mikey Uí Néill
Location: Olden Texas
Watch: 14060M & 16570
Posts: 1,941
|
  
__________________
Dances with Dogs.  Quote:
Quote:
|
||
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 08:34 AM
|
#4 |
|
2024 ROLEX DATEJUST41 Pledge Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Real Name: Richard
Location: Macungie, PA
Watch: 5513 Sub, LV Sub
Posts: 14,494
|
Bill, that is an awesome Rolex ..... congratulations and enjoy!
__________________
 "Few things in life give man as great a pleasure as wearing a Rolex!" TRF's "AFTER DARK" Bar & NightClub Patron
|
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 09:20 AM
|
#5 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Real Name: Ren
Location: Toronto On Canada
Posts: 1,886
|
Bill,
A big welcome and congrats to you from a fellow (soon to be) Explorer II owner! What a wonderful lady you have there and smart knowing her birthday is coming up soon as well...  I'm glad you found your Rolex so soon it has taken me a long while to find that right model that smiled at me. Wear and enjoy my friend, Ren
__________________
“Hail to the king, baby" Ash (Army of Darkness 1992) |
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 09:24 AM
|
#6 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Real Name: Alan
Location: Wet coast, Canada
Watch: A few, yes
Posts: 368
|
Just helped a friend of mine buy one of these today! Great looking watch, and a big congrats on yours
Wear it in good health
__________________
 Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. - Steven Wright |
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 09:40 AM
|
#7 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Real Name: KAAN
Location: ISTANBUL
Watch: Explorer-PAM233
Posts: 1,645
|
great timepiece..you are really lucky...
|
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 10:46 AM
|
#8 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 22,683
|
Doesn't get any better.
 What a great birthday present and what a GREAT wife!!Now,....her birthday in three weeks? Wonder how she'd like a new Submariner?
|
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 10:53 AM
|
#9 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Real Name: Karis
Location: USA
Posts: 19,377
|
Congrats! I can feel your excitement! Enjoy it!
|
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 11:03 AM
|
#10 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Real Name: Boyd
Location: NC
Posts: 1,815
|
Congratulations and welcome to the club
Boyd
__________________
16610M 16710Z Pepsi 16570V White |
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 11:17 AM
|
#11 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Real Name: Dennis
Location: Bay Area - 925
Posts: 40,018
|
Congrats !
__________________
TRF Member #6699 (since September 2007) |
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 11:45 AM
|
#12 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: anywhere but here
Posts: 690
|
Nice watch you got there. Congrats!
|
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 12:02 PM
|
#13 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
Real Name: Tim
Location: Cincinnati/NKY
Posts: 1,671
|
Nice present! Congrads!
__________________
118239, 16710, 16610lv |
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 12:07 PM
|
#14 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
Real Name: Cori
Location: WA
Watch: 1680 Red Sub
Posts: 56
|
On my to do list
__________________
Cori Bellevue, WA Rolex 1680 Red  Panerai 177 Titanium
|
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 01:58 PM
|
#15 |
|
Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: New York City
Watch: SS Sub/GMTII/EXPII
Posts: 203
|
Congrats, lovely watch
|
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 02:14 PM
|
#16 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Real Name: Lucky
Location: Ohio USA
Watch: TT-Tona/EXII/Tudor
Posts: 696
|
Congrats to you Cru Jones!
I went throught the same excitement. You can do what I did: buy your wife a rolex for her birthday! Now there are his and hers !
__________________
Astroboy "Life Is Not A Problem To Be Solved But A Reality To Be Experienced" "JJ - Your smile takes all my troubles away!" |
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 02:16 PM
|
#17 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Real Name: Kevin
Location: Hong Kong
Watch: Rolex Air-King
Posts: 4,468
|
Awesome... Happy Belated Birthday!
__________________
Instagram: timeonhand1010 |
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 02:32 PM
|
#18 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Real Name: Allan
Location: USA
Posts: 959
|
An excellent choice....enjoy it!
|
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 02:43 PM
|
#19 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Real Name: Joe
Location: Hong Kong
Posts: 1,835
|
Big CONGRATS!
Cheers, Joe
__________________
 "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." - S.J.
|
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 03:22 PM
|
#20 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Real Name: Jim
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Watch: Rolex
Posts: 1,188
|
Congratulations, Bill! That was certainly a special gift! Wear it in good health and thanks for sharing! (Even though it doesn't have one of those crime fighting heros on the dial...)
__________________
My collection, in order of acquisition: 16610 Sub (Z serial) 16710 GMT-Master II (Coke and Pepsi) (Z serial) 16570 Explorer II (White) (F serial) 116660 Deepsea (V serial) 79270 Tudor Tiger Chrono (red dial) |
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 03:56 PM
|
#21 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: USA
Posts: 19,695
|
That is a great white dial watch...
|
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 04:22 PM
|
#22 |
|
Fondly Remembered
Join Date: May 2005
Real Name: JJ
Location: Auckland, NZ
Watch: ALL SOLD!!
Posts: 74,320
|
Congrats, Bill...........excellent choice!! Wore mine today at work and enjoyed every living moment of it!!
__________________
Words fail me in expressing my utmost thanks to ALL of you for this wonderful support during my hour of need!! I firmly believe that my time on planet earth is NOT yet up!! I shall fight this to the very end.......and WIN!! |
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 08:14 PM
|
#23 |
|
2024 ROLEX DATEJUST41 Pledge Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Paris, France
Posts: 34,517
|
thanks everyone for the kind words.
i had had my eye on the watch for quite some time, but, there always seemed to be something "more important" to do. i guess my wife got fed up with me looking at catalogues and talking about it and thought an "age milestone" present would shut me up, but, it's only made things worse for her. once you get a taste of the rolex life, you only want more!!
|
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 08:20 PM
|
#24 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
Real Name: Gerardus
Location: EU
Watch: ♕
Posts: 11,882
|
Congratz
__________________
 ♕16570 ♕126610 ♕126333 |
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 08:22 PM
|
#25 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Real Name: Dan
Location: Essex, UK
Watch: West Ham! COYI!!
Posts: 7,941
|
Beautiful! Congratulations!
__________________
Onwards & Upwards Rodders...... Onwards & Upwards. Life is not about how fast you can run or how high you can climb........... It's about how well you can bounce!!  TRF HALL OF FAME JANUARY 2010 
|
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 08:24 PM
|
#26 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
Real Name: Carlos
Location: UK
Watch: ing YOU!
Posts: 1,121
|
Congrats!
__________________
16610 116400GV 116520W 00112 116710LN 16610LV 00292 116520B |
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 08:56 PM
|
#27 |
|
2024 ROLEX DATEJUST41 Pledge Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Real Name: Martin
Location: land down under
Watch: you? "YES PLEASE"!
Posts: 3,685
|
Welcome to best ROLEX forum
I love mine to: 
__________________
it's not just about telling the time... happy rolexing...  I'm just a man with a passion    |
|
|
|
|
26 March 2010, 09:40 PM
|
#28 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Real Name: Kevin
Location: Texas on my mind
Watch: Sub Date; SS/WG DJ
Posts: 2,445
|
Nice! Well played--enjoy it!
__________________
 16610 Submariner Date; D Serial 16234 DateJust SS with WG Fluted Bezel & Jubillee, White Roman Dial; F Serial 16570 Explorer II White Dial; M Serial And Hers: 78240 Mid-Size DateJust SS with Domed Bezel & Oyster, White Roman; D Serial |
|
|
|
|
27 March 2010, 04:45 AM
|
#29 |
|
"TRF" Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: USA
Watch: Panerai 000
Posts: 394
|
Congrats!
|
|
|
|
|
27 March 2010, 06:16 AM
|
#30 |
|
2024 ROLEX DATEJUST41 Pledge Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: New Mexico
Watch: 116710 BLNR
Posts: 34,349
|
|
|
|
|
 |
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
|
|
*Banners
Of The Month*
This space is provided to horological resources.
Linear Mode
