Celebrity Watches by Vincent Daveau: Tracking Trendsetters Through Time
Newly released Celebrity Watches traces well-known and obscure connections between leading watch brands and their famous owners. From Napoleon to Steve McQueen and Einstein to Shaq, the author, a Paris-based watch journalist, chronicles the intersections between brand history and celebrity.Each of the book's 23 chapters focuses on a watch brand, with big time and smaller players represented. Rolex, Omega, Cartier, and Patek Philippe are chronicled alongside fashion-oriented brands like Boucheron, Dior, and Chanel. Each chapter presents a compact brand history, photos and descriptions of representative watches, and images of the celebrities who wear them. The book's 160 pages contain 200 color and 50 black and white photographs including portraits, studio shots, publicity stills and paparazzi snaps.Celebrity Watches profiles movie and rock stars, sportsmen and women, politicians, and other VIPs including historical figures such as Queen Elizabeth and Marie Antoinette, celebrities from b

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I came of age in the 1960's and 1970's in New England. If you asked most of my schoolmates back then what they wanted to be when they grew up, most would have said a fireman, policeman, cowboy, politician, lawyer, doctor, teacher, sailor��. just about anything but a watchmaker. The average age of watchmakers in the 1960's and 1970's was around 50 years old, and it seemed, at least in the United States, to be a dying breed, perhaps even an endangered species. Americans didn't value watchmakers as highly skilled technicians, as they did in Switzerland and other European communities, they more or less saw them as the equivalent of a plumber, electrician, house painter or refrigerator repair man. Not something to strive for when you're young ��didn't seem glamorous like a secret agent, lawyer, or computer punch card operator��. or something to get girls with like the lead singer of a rock band.So when my Dad decided when I was 12, to take me to his retail jewelry store on Saturdays to teach m

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Hi everyone, this is my first post here and I can't seem to make up my mind. I love sport watches as they are a majority of my collection which consists of a Rolex Sub, AP ROC, and PP: 5227j, 5712/1A, 5726a. Im also open to other suggestions as well but for now I'm just considering the 5980 white dial and the 5164. Thanks!

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I recently purchased my Ceramic GMT2 with black dial. I am very happy with my purchase but now I am lusting for a Pepsi. I believe the magnum PI Rolex is the 16750. I see plenty of 16710 but not as many 16750. I have done the google thing, looking for the experts here to give me the real scoop. I want the model he wore in the show (and the car, maybe next year :) )

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I currently have a stainless DJ 36 on a jubilee, and wanted to upgrade to something a bit bigger. I started looking into the larger styles, and really fell in love with the DJ on the left. As I was researching, I see people talking about the DJ II and the DJ 41, as if they're different models, but I thought that the DJ II pictured is the 41? I think there's something I'm missing or am not understanding lol.Also, I was wondering if anyone knew what the roman numerals are called when they're outlined in gold (pictured on the right) as opposed to the solid gold numerals (on the left)? Could someone explain why there's a bar at the 9 o'clock marker on the one one the right, and why it isn't on the left? Sorry for all the questions, I just want to make sure I understand everything before I buy. Thanks guys.