Jim Croce Rolex Submariner...

Jim Croce

1943-1973

Rolex Submariner

I have been working on creating another blog named Jake's Music World and I recently posted a few videos of 1970s recording legend, Jim Croce. Unfortunately Croce passed away when he was only 30 years old in 1973. He died in a plane crash. The photo below shows Jim Croce wearing his Rolex Submariner on the cover of his first Album which was published in 1966 and it was named Facets. 

I thought is would be on-point to post this story now, because his Submariner is almost identical to the one in the Rolex Submariner ad I posted yesterday.

The story behind Jim Croce's first album, named Facets, is fascinating. Jim Croce's financed the first 500 copies pressed with a $500 wedding gift from his parents. Croce's parents gift was conditional and they insisted that if he accepted the gift he has to spend it on making a album. Ironically his parents thought the album would fail and Jim wold then give up on his music career, and go to college so he could then get a respectable job. Obviously, things did not work out the way they expected, and Jim Croce went on to become an international recording superstar.

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Rolex Coolness: Michael Bublé Two-Tone Rolex Datejust...

Rolex Coolness: Michael Bublé

Two-Tone Rolex Datejust

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Rolex SuperHotness: Jessica Simpson...

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Jessica Simpson

Stainless Steel Rolex Submariner

What can I say!?! Youuuuuch!!!!!!! I think I am at an unusual loss for words. Oh yeah, Jessica Simpson is wearing a stainless Rolex Submariner.

Jessica Simpson has to be one of the most beautiful woman in the world!!! Just stunning!!!!

Foxy Lady

I don't know why, but the Jimi Hendrix song, Foxy Lady keeps popping into my head with I look at the photos of Jessica Simpson so I thought I would include this amazing video. Just play it and look at the photos of Jessica ;-)))) Man, Hendrix was really something else!!!!

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Rolex Coolness: Eric Clapton-Yellow Gold Rolex Day-Date Ad

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Eric Clapton

A Brilliant Musical Career With Rolex Keeping His Time

Eric Clapton has enjoyed an amazing musical career. He is the only three-time Rock and Roll Hall of fame inductee, as a solo artist, as well as a member of the Yardbirds, as well as Cream. Eric Clapton is arguably one of the most influential and successful guitarists of all time.

Eric Clapton is a vintage Rolex collector as well as being a Rolex Ambassador. In this first picture we see Eric Clapton sporting his Paul Newman Rolex Daytona on a Fatstrap, the way Paul Newman wore his.

Just for frame of reference, I thought I would share this photo of Paul Newman wearing his trademark Exotic Dial Daytona on a Fatstrap. If you compare the photo above and below you see that Eric Clapton's Paul Newman Daytona is absolutely true to form.

Rolex Coolness: Eric Clapton

Yellow Gold Rolex Day-Date Ad

Rolex Coolness: Eric Clapton

50th Anniversary Rolex GV Milgauss

Clapton Sporting a Rolex Submariner

Clapton Sporting a Rolex GMT-Master

Riding With The King

Eric Calpton with B.B. King. Eric is wearing his Submariner and B.B. King is wearing his trademark yellow gold Rolex President which is not visible in this picture. B.B. Kings Rolex President is as much a part of his kit as his guitar–Lucille.

Speaking of Eric Clapton and B.B. King, here they are pictured above with John Mayer, and they are all wearing Rolex watches. B.B. King, Eric Clapton and John Mayer are considered to be the greatest guitarist of their respective generations.

Of course when B.B. King plays his trademark Gibson Lucille (Model ES 355) he wears his trademark Yellow Gold Rolex Day-Date President.

In this photo Clapton is also wearing a Day Date and John Mayer is wearing one of his vintage Rolex Explorer II watches with the orange hand.

Eric's Great Buddy

Talk about a Mentor and Protege...Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton at a Crossroads Charity event. Crossroads is Eric Clapton's charity organization.

Buddy Guy is one of the greatest Blues and Rock guitarist that ever lived. If it was not for Buddy Guy's early innovation on the guitar playing style on the guitar there never would have been a Hendrix.

Buddy does not just play the guitar, he completely dominates it like I have NEVER seen anybody else do.

Eric Clapton's Rolex Watches At Auction

Eric Clapton was one of the first celebrities to get into collection vintage Rolex watches. Over the years he has auctioned many of them and donated the benefits to his charity foundation. This Stainless Steel Rolex Daytona set a world watch auction record a few years ago by selling for $505,000.

The watch is considered to be very rare because it has an "Albino" dial.

Eric Clapton's Albino Daytona

Eric Clapton once owned this Extremely Rare Rolex watch dubbed "The Yachtmaster Daytona which was a Prototype Rolex and was never offered to the public. It is fascinating to see how Rolex experimented with the nautical theme in the 60s and early 70s be creating a 39MM Yachtmaster. Of course, Rolex did not bring the current Yachtmaster to market until decades later.

Eric Clapton's Rolex Yacht-Master prototype sold at a Christie's Auction in 2003 for $125,000, and Eric Clapton donated the proceeds to his Crossroads Foundation. His Rolex Yacht-Master is picture below and appears courtesy of Christie's Auction House.

Here is another photo of Eric Clapton's Rolex Yacht-Master Prototype Reference 6239/6242. There are only 3 known examples of the Rolex Yacht-Master Prototype. The first is this one that was owned by Eric Clapton. The second one is owned by John Goldberger, and the last one is owned by Rolex and kept in their private collection and it has a special bezel [Reference 6542].

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Crosby, Stills & Nash: Folk Rock Supergroup 4 Decades of Rolex

Crosby, Stills & Nash

Amazing Folk Rock Supergroup

with Rolex Keeping Their Time

Crosby, Stills & Nash is one of the most popular folk rock supergroups of all time, and as we will soon see, they have been wearing Rolex Submariner watches for four decades. They are pictured below in this first photo in 1969 just before they played Woodstock, and Stephen Stills (center) is wearing his trademark Rolex Submariner which you will see better later in this story.

Crosby, Stills and Nash are best known for their trademark sound which fuses magnificent vocal harmonies with amazing lyrics. All three band members have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and their music literally defended an era.

Judy Blue Eyes

Live at Woodstock 1969

Rolex Submariner

Crosby, Stills and Nash blew everybody's mind when they performed live at Woodstock in 1969, and their version of Judy Blue Eyes is just amazing!!!! As a matter of fact, Woodstock 1969 was the first time they ever performed together as a band.

Notice Stephen Stills sporting his trademark Rolex Submariner while giving this seminal performance at Woodstock in 1969!!!!. This is one of the best songs of all time!!!!

An interesting point is that in Judy Blue Eyes, Crosby, Stills and Nash sing the last chorus in Spanish, and they sing:

Que linda me la traiga Cuba,

La reina de la Mar Caribe.

Cielo sol no tiene sangre alli,

y que triste que no puedo vaya,

Oh va, oh va, va.

Translated from Spanish to English they are singing:

"Oh, what beauty Cuba brings me,

The queen of the Caribbean Sea,

Sunny Sky has no blood over there,

And how sad that I cannot go,

Oh go, oh go, go."

The band members from Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young came from 1960s rock bands, The Byrds, The Hollies and Buffalo Springfield. They introduced their first album in 1969 to critical acclaim.

Down By The River

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

On and off over the years, Crosby, Stills and Nash have been joined by Neil Young as seen in the following 1969 video:

BBC Live Performance with Crosby & Nash

This next set of 5 videos was shot live for the BBC in 1970 and it is really something else to see this live unplugged, acoustical performance!!!!

Stephen Stills is pictured below jamming with Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones

Stephen Stills is pictured below in 1972 sporting his Rolex Submariner

Stephen Stills is pictured again in 1973 wearing his trademark Rolex Submariner

Carry On

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Live At Wembley Stadium 1974

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young are best known for their vocal harmonies and their amazing guitar playing. In this live video of Carry On, shot live at Wembley in 1974, these crispy-critters seriously rock out!!!

In the photo below, taken in 1982, we see Graham Nash on the far left with record industry super-producer, Ahmet Ertegn, and Stephen Stills on the far right.

Teach Your Children

Love The One You're With

In this next photo we see David Crosby with his wife, and he is wearing his trademark Rolex Submariner.

Here is another photo of David Crosby wearing his trademark Rolex Submariner.

In this next photo we see actress, comedian, and talk-show host, Ellen DeGeneres with David Crosby. Ellen of course is a Rolex fanatic.

In this last image we see Crosby, Stills and Nash today. Their partnership has spanned over 5 decades with David Crosby and Stephen Stills wearing Rolex Submariner watches.

Marrakesh Express

Traveling Twice The Speed Of Sound
WoodstockWe Are Stardust

In the recent photos below we see Stephen Stills wearing his trademark Role Submariner 41 years after he wore it during Crosby, Stills and Nash seminal performance when they played Woodstock in 1969!!!!! Just amazing!!!! It is amazing how many famous guitarists wear Rolex Submariner models.

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Rihanna Rockin Her Rolex

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Rihanna Rockin Her Rolex

Rihanna is one of the most successful recording artists today. She is pictured below with Los Angeles Dodgers baseball superstar, Matt Kemp.

Rihanna is wearing an unusual vintage Rolex Day-Date. It is hard to tell exactly, but it appears her watch is a vintage pink gold Rolex Day-Date on a rare Rolex Oyster bracelet.

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Whitney Houston Yellow Gold Rolex Lady Date

Whitney Houston

1963-2012

Yellow Gold Rolex Lady Date

It is sad to think that Whitney Houston now belongs to the ages... In the photo below we see Whitney Houston at the 1991 Superbowl, singing the National Anthem, and you can see she was wearing her yellow gold Rolex Lady Date.

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Rolex Hotness: Jessica Simpson...

Rolex Hotness: Jessica Simpson

Updside-Down, Day-Date

I have said many times, women like to wear men's Rolex watches like a bracelet, or as a piece of jewelry and I think that is clearly the case (no pun intended) with Jessica Simpson's yellow gold Day Date. If you look closely at her watch in the second and third images you will notice she is wearing it upside down, so instead of reading 11:05pm it reads 5:35.

Of course, Jessica can get away with this because she is stunningly gorgeous and I love her outfit. The orange dress with her great tan and the way her watch perfectly matches here blonde hair.

Jessica Simpson is not the only woman to wear her Rolex upside down, there are more.

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