Welcome to RolexMagazine.com skip to main | skip to sidebar Friday, August 14, 2026 White Gold Rolex Daytona As Seen on Rolex.com in 2007 ...Rolex Time Machine... White Gold Rolex Daytona As Seen on Rolex.com in 2007 Before I started Jake's Rolex World in 2008, I took these screen grabs in 2007, as I thought this watch was so cool looking, and I just found them, so I thought I would share them. Very cool looking... Posted by Jake Ehrlich at 7:21AM Labels: Rolex Time Machine, Rolex.com, White Gold Daytona Thursday, August 13, 2026 Vintage Rolex Ad: Summer of Love Olympics Summer Of Love Submariner 1968 Acapulco Summer Olympic Games Stainless Steel Reference 5513 The Rolex add below is from the 1968 Summer Olympic Games which were held in Mexico City, Mexico. The boating events of the XIX Olympiad were held in Acapulco, Mexico, which is featured in the Rolex ad below. Posted by Jake Ehrlich at 12:00AM Labels: Olympics, Reference 5513, Rolex Advertising, Rolex Sailing Ad, Sailing, Stainless Submariner, Summer Olympics Wednesday, August 12, 2026 Go Green... Go Green Posted by Jake Ehrlich at 2:26AM Labels: Daytona Tuesday, August 11, 2026 David Letterman: Stainless Steel Rolex Submariner ...Rolex Super-Coolness... The Kings Of Late Night David Letterman Stainless Steel Rolex Submariner If you are staying up late night, it helps to keep good time on your Rolex. David Letterman needs no introduction as he is one of the most iconic men alive today. Letterman has been hailed as The King Of Late Night with a career on TV that spanned 33 yearseven surpassing his mentor, Johnny Carson as the single longest-running late night talk show host in United States history. In the photos below we see David Letterman wearing his stainless steel Rolex Submariner. David Letterman followed in Johnny Carson's footsteps in many ways, and in the photo below we see Johnny Carson wearing his yellow gold Rolex Day-Date. Speaking of Late Night Talk Show Hosts, we also see Arsenio Hall pictured below wearing his yellow gold Rolex Day-Date, as he is driving with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Conan O'Brien is pictured below wearing his Rolex Submariner on a FatStrapPaul Newman Style. Steven Colbert actually took over David Letterman's place as the host of The Late Show, and as we see in the two photo below, he also wears a Rolex Submariner. Below we see Tonight Show Host, Jimmy Fallon rocking a vintage Paul Newman Reference 6239. Forber Tonight Show host, Jay Leno is pictured with Ferrari ambassador, David Lee below getting his left handed GMT-Sprite... Posted by Jake Ehrlich at 12:00AM Labels: David Letterman, Talk Show Host Monday, August 10, 2026 A Magnificently Unusual Daytona A Magnificently Unusual Daytona Cosmograph Daytona Reference 116500LN Raja is a reader of Jake's Rolex World from Texas, and recently we had an absolutely fascinating conversation about his Stainless Steel Daytona with a black dial and matching black ceramic bezel. This Daytona blew my mind when I first saw it as I was shocked with how amazing it looked on Raja's Jubilee bracelet. But wait a minute!?!! What is going on with this great looking watch? Rolex offers some models, like the GMT-Master on both a Rolex Oyster bracelet, as well as on a Rolex Jubilee. Think Batman v. Batgirl. That being said, my understanding is that Rolex only has offered the stainless steel Daytona on an Oyster Bracelet for many years now. I asked Raja: "What inspired you to put the Super Jubilee on your Daytona? And where/ how did you obtain the Super Jubilee? Did you purchase it separately?" Keep in mind, this is NOT the current Daytona model, but the previous model. Raja responded: "I have had both the white and black Ceramic Daytonas (116500LN) for quite some time and I felt both of them needed some extra distinction in addition to the dial colors being different. Here comes the Super Jubilee bracelet (ref 63600), which differentiated the wearing experience of the black ceramic Daytona by making it much more lighter aka comfortable while adding a very slight shine to the watch that I secretly liked. Not to mention I now do not have to worry about the pesky micro scratches that one can observe on the polished center links. Overall the black Daytona quickly has became my go-to daily wearer inside or outside the house whereas in the past I would gravitate more towards the white Daytona. I bought the super jubilee bracelet (ref 63600) from my AD. They were able to special order it for me. It was delivered to me in about 3 weeks after the order was placed. In all fairness I tried the super jubilee on the white ceramic as well but the super jubilee did not resonate with the white one as it did with the black one." Many, many years ago, Rolex once offered the stainless steel Daytona on a Jubilee bracelet. In my opinion, Rolex should definitely bring back this AMAZING combination, or at least offer it both way, as it looks so RAD!!!!!! I asked Raja to tell me more about himself and how he got interested in watch collection and he said: "I have been into watch since the beginning of time (pun not intended). Growing up I used to have a scrapbook of watch pictures that I would collect from various magazines or newspaper articles. I knew of pretty much all the brands like Audemars, Vacheron, Patek, Rolex, Omega, JLC, Tissot etc although my pronunciation of few of them were absolutely questionable, especially JLC. That childhood hobby turned into watch collecting along with watch photography. I have learnt quite a bit from other watch enthusiasts/photographers during the process. I have met some really amazing people in this journey of collecting, discovering and learning about watches and even in that set of friends, I call a subset of them good friends among whom we share our life experiences with each other every day." Best Regards, Raja Captain Danny saw this image of a similar model Daytona and shared this wrist shot image with me from Karleone on RolexForums.com: Posted by Jake Ehrlich at 12:47AM Labels: Raja, Rolex Daytona, Super Jubilee Bracelet Sunday, August 09, 2026 David Concannon and Jeff Bezos Retrieve Apollo 11 F-1 Rocket Engine David Concannon Interview with Tony Triana Captain Danny recently shared the following video with me and said, "this dude quickly mentions you", and of course that dude is David Concannon, who is an amazing explorer. The article below is from the archives and covers David Concannon Spirit Of Exploration ...Rolex Super-Coolness... Successful Bermuda Triangle DEEP-SEA Apollo 11 F-1 Engine Recovery Expedition Receives Explorers Club Citation of Merit for An Outstanding Feat Of Exploration The Spirit of Exploration is alive and well in the world we all share, and I am happy to report that a friend of mine, and fellow Rolex Fanatic/WIS, David Concannon was the project leader for the amazingly successful Apollo F-1 Engine Recovery Expedition. This amazing expedition was the brainchild of Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, and this last weekend in New York City, the Explorers Club awarded the team led by David Concannon, The Citation Of Merit for An Outstanding Feat Of Exploration. The award was presented by NASA Apollo 11 Astronaut, Buzz Aldrin at the 110th Explorers Club Annual Dinner in New York City. David Concannon & Jeff Bezos David Concannon is pictured above and below with Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, and David is one of the top Expedition Attorneys in the world, and he has personally led many DEEP-SEA expeditions to the Titanic. David is pictured above shaking hands with Jeff Bezos, who's he worked with to undertake the retrieval of Apollo F-1 Engines from the Ocean floor through his Bezos Expeditions group. Basically, Bezos Expeditions located and recovered many of the F-1 Rockets from the NASA Apollo Moon Missions located three miles below the Atlantic Ocean, and this was all achieved in very DEEP-SEAS, that were a mile deeper than the Titanic!!!!!! The photo below shows expedition workers examining a recovered F-1 Thrust Chamber. In the two photos below, we see Expedition Leader, David Concannon sporting his Pepsi Rolex GMT-Master, which was also the personal watch choice of many NASA Apollo Astronauts. Jeff Bezos said, when he announced to the world that the team was heading into Cape Canaveral, with the engines on the SeaBed Worker: "While I spent a reasonable chunk of time in my cabin emailing and working, it didn't keep me from getting to know the team. I'd like to call out a bunch of thank yous. First of all to David Concannon who pulled together this team. The whole thing would simply have been impossible without the A-team, and I'm not sure anyone other than Dave could have brought them together." Photo of Jeff Bezos and David Concannon appears courtesy of Josh Bernstein I very highly recommend you check out this amazing video from Bezos Expeditions that tells the amazing story of Exploration, and if you look closely, you will notice David Concannon sporting his Pepsi GMT-Master II. David is a dyed in the wool Rolex fanatic!!! It is challenging to put into words, how deeply profound this achievement it, and certainly the video above does a great job. You can learn much more about this fascinating expedition by visiting Bezos Expiditions F-1 Engine Recovery webpage. Jeff Bezos perfectly summed up his ambitions (which he achieved) with this amazing project in the letter below which he wrote on March 28, 2012: The F-1 rocket engine is still a modern wonder one and a half million pounds of thrust, 32 million horsepower, and burning 6,000 pounds of rocket grade kerosene and liquid oxygen every second. On July 16, 1969, the world watched as five particular F-1 engines fired in concert, beginning the historic Apollo 11 mission. Those five F-1s burned for just a few minutes, and then plunged back to Earth into the Atlantic Ocean, just as NASA planned. A few days later, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon. F1 Engine Installation Pictured Above Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration. A year or so ago, I started to wonder, with the right team of undersea pros, could we find and potentially recover the F-1 engines that started mankind's mission to the moon? I'm excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14,000 feet below the surface, and we're making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocean floor. We don't know yet what condition these engines might be in - they hit the ocean at high velocity and have been in salt water for more than 40 years. On the other hand, they're made of tough stuff, so we'll see. Though they've been on the ocean floor for a long time, the engines remain the property of NASA. If we are able to recover one of these F-1 engines that started mankind on its first journey to another heavenly body, I imagine that NASA would decide to make it available to the Smithsonian for all to see. If we're able to raise more than one engine, I've asked NASA if they would consider making it available to the excellent Museum of Flight here in Seattle. (For clarity, I'll point out that no public funding will be used to attempt to raise the engines, as it's being undertaken privately.) NASA is one of the few institutions I know that can inspire five-year-olds. It sure inspired me, and with this endeavor, maybe we can inspire a few more youth to invent and explore. We'll keep you posted. Sincerely, Jeff Bezos Bezos F1-Recovery Expedition Team Apollo F-1 Rockets I decided to add some context to the significance of this achievement by Bezos Ventures. Wernher von Braun is pictured below standing in front of Saturn V rocket thrusters he designed that would ultimately put men on the moon, including Mercury Astronaut, Alan Shepard on Apollo 14. The Saturn V rocket possess…