Stealthiness of the Explorer

Seriously, you'll only appreciate the stealthiness of the Explorer if you were all alone as a stranger in the street of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, China and Thailand, esp at night.

And not forget to mention that, it is also usefull if you are trying to bargain for the lowest price of a shirt at the night market at Luang Prabang. If they don't notice the spot on your wrist, you'll get a good reasonable price for or a nice handmade craft by local.

Rgds.

Watch Idiot Savant (WIS)?

taken from timezone library and archives

Definitions of a Watch Idiot Savant

Posted by LStone on June 03, 1998 at 23:38:47:

• self trained to sleep in 5 positions with wearing his/her COSC certified chronometer in bed.
• opens the back of a new Patek on the first day of acquisition and hand winds the rotor in tighten up the main spring.
• takes the 200 meter water proof Seadweller off from the wrist and puts it into the deepest pocket before walking into a storm without any rain gear.
• waits every 60 minute in front of a radio controlled clock all weekend in order to adjust all his/her 14 mechanical watches to the accuracy within -2/+2 seconds per 24 hours.
• spends $500 plus on polish equipment and materials and works 20 hours in order to refinish a $200 worth SS bracelet.
• has a annual budget of $500 on the purchase of a new watch and posts the question on the Timezone forum "which one is better? a Rolex or a TAG?"
• wears a triple date chronograph with moon phase everyday, but cannot even tell time from the basic hour and minute hands on the dial without a pair of reading glasses.
• memorizes all serial numbers of the Rolex watches made in the past 60 years but keeps forgetting the wedding anniversary.

Regards,

LStone

Posted by Paul Schliesser on June 04, 1998 at 00:18:38:

• A Watch Idiot Savant is someone who can be so distracted by his watch, that he fails to note the time.

Posted by Thomas Douqué on June 04, 1998 at 04:03:18:

• sends his watch to the Bahamas to "unwind"

Posted by Paul D. on June 04, 1998 at 05:22:39:

• A WIS is someone who bases his vacation destination on the water resistance rating of his watch.

Posted by scott on June 04, 1998 at 06:38:21:

• starts winding up his collection of manual wind watches and finishes the last one just as the power reserve on the first one runs out - and then starts all over again.

Posted by BrandonS on June 04, 1998 at 06:47:32:

• ...politely asks his wife and daughter to be quiet and turns off all noisy appliances so he can listen to the roter on his new Valjoux-equipped Hamilton Chrono spin

Posted by Kent on June 04, 1998 at 07:17:35:

• ...ten minutes after meeting someone for the first time, can tell you what kind of watch the person was wearing, but can't remember their name. ;-)

Posted by RG on June 04, 1998 at 07:46:44:

• A WIS is one who can tell you the start up date of most Swiss watch companies but cannot remember his anniversary or his kids birthdays.

• Can tell you the name, address and phone number of all the high-end watch stores in his home town, but cannot remember the same info re. a relatives residence.

• Remembers to wind all his watches, but forgets to take out the garbage on garbage pick-up day.

• Can recall every watch purchase and what he was doing at that time but cannot remember the dinner party he and his significant other are invited to that weekend.

• Posted by Mike Breinin on June 04, 1998 at 08:30:28:
• meets Cindy Crawford and notices her "my choice" Constellation long before her chest;

• Has a watch collection that equals the cost of a new 911 but drives a GEO Metro;
• Convinces his wife to put off having that next kid so he can get a Patek 5035

Posted by Mike Breinin on June 04, 1998 at 09:15:55:

• Plans a vacation strictly around watch shopping;
• Has the number of the Naval Observatory Master Clock on speed-dial, or worse memorizes it;
• Buys magazines only for the watch ads, reads none of the articles;
• Is on a first name basis with all the salespeople in the local watch stores;
• Spends more time gazing at and fondling his new watch than he does his significant other;
• Thinks about watches, not baseball, during coitus.
• Has nightmares about Rolex world domination . . .

Posted by Mario Picanco on June 04, 1998 at 09:38:22:

• A Watch Idiot Savant is someone who spend a large fortune on watches to have a small fortune on watches.

Posted by Tempus Fugit on June 04, 1998 at 10:11:31:

• someone who remembers what watch their proctologist was wearing..!!

Posted by Steve L on June 04, 1998 at 13:52:24:

• One who considers safe sex putting their watch in a Scatola del Tempo box!

Posted by Edward on June 04, 1998 at 14:40:55:

• A watch idiot savant is a person who cannot deal with anyone whose hands don't point to 10 and 2.

Posted by Randy Cole on June 04, 1998 at 18:27:21:

• Wakes up in the emergency room and asks the nurse if his watch was scratched.
• Takes off his watch before sex.
• Knows the two-letter Internet country code for Switzerland.
• Gets his watches serviced more often than he gets his cars serviced.
• Thinks that Ferraris are made by Girard-Perregaux and wonders why Porsches are made by so many different companies.
• Knows how to set every chronograph ever made but has no idea how to make his VCR display anything besides 12:00.
• Owns more watches than the guy selling fake Rolexes on 42nd Street.
• Thinks that Gilbert and Schugart wrote "HMS Pinafore".
• Actually looks forward to having strangers ask him for the time.
• Buys a Tag-Heuer so his 3-year-old can learn to tell time.
• Owns $15K worth of watches and wakes up to a $15 Sony digital alarm clock.

Posted by Mark Hanson on June 04, 1998 at 18:42:43:

• first thinks of movements, not modems, when hearing the number 28,800.

Posted by Jaeger on June 04, 1998 at 14:56:00:

• someone who believes Roman numeral 4 is written "IIII"

Rolex Explorer Vs Seiko Diver's Movement Comparison

Rolex Explorer Ref 114270

Rolex Explorer Ref 114270

A watch doesn’t look like other Rolex watches, it is a Rolex watch that rarely inherits Rolex’s traditional features, but it is being sold at a high price.

Mercedes-Benz hands, it’s dial design is similar to Submariner’s, Arabic numeral luminous markers at 3, 6 and 9 o’clock, smooth bezel, similar to Ref 16200, low key, but good looking.

Rolex Ref 114270 is equipped with Cal 3130 movement, but is the only one Cal 3130 that has been certified by COSC.

In fact, we can get the actual quality of the Cal 3130 movement from one side, the reason why a lot of 3130 movements had not done the COSC testing is Rolex has taken the commercial factors into account – pull the grade of product lines and price gap.

There is also a story about Ref 114270 – everyone thought that 114270 was specially designed for the explorers to climbing Mount Everest. In fact, Ref 114270 was produced after Everest.

The most worthy steel Rolex watches are Ref 114270, or Ref 14060M.

text source :http://www.rolex-chat.com/category/rolex-explorer

The Rolex Explorer Experience

Hello Fellow Explorers! (updated 3/11/2011)
This is the betta version of this blog. It is still new and some work is in progress.
The following outlines will give some basic idea behind this blog:

Watch if you do have one:
1.This blog is created more or lest to appreciate any Explorer whom really owned the Rolex Explorer.
2. Why do you choose the Explorer?
3.To share the true experience of an Explorer with the Explorer
4. Photos!Yeah , of course! We need photos of the Explorer in action. Perhaps with some scars :-)

Experience:
 Here we defined the Explorer as below:
1. Must have been visited at least 4 countries abroad.
2. Distance more than 10,000 km journey - accumulatively.
3. Duration more than a week journey on a single trip.
4. Must have subject of interest or investigation to be shared with.
5. Must at least own a Rolex Explorer, before or after the exploration.
6. Or keen to own the Explorer as self-reward for the achievement.
7. Mountaineers are Explorers in a different class. You are excluded from item 1 and 2 but must inform the highest peak that you have reached.

This blog is a tribute to the watch and the men in some manner, and some spare the money on the trips before s/he can eventually purchased the Explorer after sometimes. We comprehend that very well sirs! Anybody can submit and share their experience, but priority is to the Explorers as defined above.


Objective:
1. Motivational and Educational via experience of the Explorers

Again this blog is for Explorer/Adventurer in its true sense. Thus, let share your passion/study/investigation/accomplishment/achievement in your subject of interest with the rest of the Explorers. It must be a great story!

Language? Not a big problem, just write!
As I don't think Tenzing Norgay had a good command in English or perhaps writting when he conquered the highest peak on earth, and yet he got the Expy on his wrist. Correct me if I'm wrong sirs.

Anyway, you must be an explorer before the Explorer deservely placed on your wrist right? Not necessarily :-) Because I personally appreciate other watches too.

So send your story to myexplorerclub@ yahoo.com to be shared in this blog.

BE THE FIRST!
"The spirit of the Explorer."

Cheers!

Explorer - Definition First!

Related Words for : explorer - adventurer

Explorer Definition:

–noun

1. a person or thing that explores.

2. a person who investigates unknown regions: the great explorers of the Renaissance.

3. any instrument used in exploring or sounding a wound, a cavity in a tooth, or the like.

World English Dictionary

explore (ɪkˈsplɔː)

— vb

1. ( tr ) to examine or investigate, esp systematically

2. to travel to or into (unfamiliar or unknown regions), esp for organized scientific purposes

3. ( tr ) med to examine (an organ or part) for diagnostic purposes

4. obsolete ( tr ) to search for or out