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Rolex watches are popularly regarded as status symbols and BusinessWeek magazine ranks Rolex No. 71 on its 2007 annual list of the 100 most valuable global brands.
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Companies such as Patek Philippe, Blancpain and Jaeger-LeCoultre specialize in simple and complicated mechanical dress watches ; companies such as Omega SA, Ball Watch Company, TAG Heuer, Sinn, Breitling, Panerai and Rolex specialize in rugged, reliable mechanical watches for sport and aviation use.
* Tudor ( watch ), a brand of watches manufactured by Rolex
Tonken claimed Schwimmer had demanded Rolex watches in order to appear at his own charity event, a claim that Schwimmer had denied.
Rolex is also the largest single luxury watch brand, producing about 2, 000 watches per day, with estimated revenues of around US $ 3 billion (£ 1. 75 ) ( CHF3. 02 billion ) ( 2003 figures ).
Many of these goods are grey market imports and many notoriously counterfeit, with fake trademarked brand names on electronics, clothing and personal accessories ( including the fake Rolex watches that have become a Manhattan cliché ).
Up to this time, the Omega brand outsold Rolex, its main Swiss rival in the luxury watch segment, although Rolex watches sold at a higher price point.
Omega watches tended to be more revolutionary and more professional focused, while Rolex watches were more ‘ evolutionary ’ and famous for their mechanical pieces and brand.
The event is sponsored by Rolex watches and is known by many equestrians simply as Rolex.
Others, however, would pursue the argument that Marcos provided them with watches that appear to be Rolex watches but were actually fakes.
He and Briscoe often joke about the age difference between them, as well as Green's Rolex watches and Briscoe's three failed marriages.
He wears expensive Rolex watches.
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Daytona Prototypes are a product of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, and offer a different interpretation of the prototype theme.
Many Sprint Cup drivers are expected to make an appearance in the Rolex Sports Car Series race in preparation for the Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen two weeks later.
Since the Rolex 24 has a winter date during the off-season for other racing series, many top class drivers are available to take part in the event if sponsorship commitments allow.
Some of them are Prof. Milan Zelený, a world-famous economist, Prof. Karel Kolomazník, a laureate of the Rolex Award for Enterprise, which is called “ a mini Nobel Prize ”.
* The Hong Kong headquarters of Rolex are located on the 12th floor.
KPMG, the UK accounting firms, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers, IKEA, Trafigura, J C Bamford Excavators ( JCB ), LEGO, Bosch, Rolex and Victorinox are some examples of Europe's largest privately held companies.
Knock-off brand label fashions and accessories like Louis Vuitton, Coach, Chanel, and Rolex are major labels that get copied.
The Rolex series, sanctioned by Grand-Am, has rules similar to the ALMS, but the cars themselves are ultimately different and are made with a more cost-efficient formula in mind.
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The 2892. A2 is regarded by many horologists as being in the same ' quality ' range ( accuracy and reliability ) as the in-house produced Rolex movements.
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The team drove the No. 23 Porsche-powered Daytona Prototype in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series.
Magnussen drove the No. 57 Stevenson Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro with Robin Liddell and Andrew Davis in the 2010 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series season opener, the Rolex 24 At Daytona.
Following the Rolex 24, he moved to the team's No. 97 car and competed in the majority of the races with Gunter Schaldach.
At the 2011 Shanghai Rolex Masters Ferrer defeated Milos Raonic, former World No. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero, former World No. 1 and tenth seed Andy Roddick and Feliciano Lopez in his way to the final that he lost to second seed Andy Murray in straight sets.
In 2009, Krohn Racing competed in two Roush-Yates Ford-powered Proto-Auto Lolas for the Rolex 24 At Daytona with Krohn, van de Poele and Oliver Gavin in the No. 75 entry ; and Nic Jönsson, Ricardo Zonta and Darren Turner in the No. 76.
In 2010 Krohn Racing ran a single entry, the No. 75 Proto-Auto Lola-Ford, with Krohn and Jönsson paired for a 12-race Grand-Am Rolex Series schedule.
For 2011, Krohn Racing drivers Tracy Krohn, Nic Jönsson, Ricardo Zonta, and Nicolas Minassian and finished sixth overall in the Rolex 24 At Daytona in the No. 76 Krohn Racing Proto-Auto Lola-Ford.
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On February 3 and 4, 2001, the first time in his career, Earnhardt participated in the Rolex 24 endurance race at Daytona, the event which kicks off Speedweeks at the track.
Neal tells Mary it is an antique Rolex.
If it had been a genuine antique Rolex, it would be worth £ 500.
The exploration was co-sponsored by The National Geographic Foundation and Rolex.
If the item is counterfeit, such as a fake Rolex watch, it may have only a fraction of the value of the genuine item.
Saddam developed a reputation for liking expensive goods, such as his diamond-coated Rolex wristwatch, and sent copies of them to his friends around the world.
Due to major injuries at Red Hills and Rolex in 2008, the rules were changed drastically.
Show jumping phase at the Rolex Kentucky Three Day.
The last Olympic Games that included the long, or " classic ", three-day format was the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, while Rolex Kentucky, the Badminton Horse Trials, and Burghley Horse Trials ran their last long format three-day in 2005.
The first CCI held outside of Britain on an annual basis is the Rolex Kentucky Three Day, held each year in Lexington since 1978.
The very highest level of competition is the CCI ****, and with only six such competitions in the world ( Badminton, Burghley, Rolex Kentucky, Adelaide, Luhmuhlen Horse Trials, and the Stars of Pau ) it is the ultimate aim of many riders.
Rolex offer a financial prize for any rider who can win three of the biggest competitions in succession.
Andrew Hoy did come close, however, and in 2010 Oliver Townend was competing for this coveted " Grand Slam " at Rolex Kentucky when he suffered a fall at obstacle # 20 which eliminated him from competition.
However, smaller horses can also excel ; for example, the third place competitor in the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three Day CCI competition was Teddy O ' Connor, a 14. 1 hand gelding that was a cross of Thoroughbred, Arabian and Shetland pony breeding.
The Kentucky Horse Park in Northern Fayette County hosts the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event, one of the top 3 annual equestrian eventing competitions in the world.
Further splits in the American scene saw the Grand American Road Racing Association form a separate series, the Rolex Sports Car Series, with its own GT and prototype rules aimed at providing cheaper, lower-cost racing for independent teams.
Grand Am's Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, a support series for the Rolex Series, provides a similar series to the old Trans Am Series, mixing conventional sports cars and touring cars.
Due to Grand Am's affiliation with NASCAR, many NASCAR drivers occasionally participate in the Rolex Sports Car Series.
Meanwhile, the Rolex Sports Car Series has overhauled its Daytona Prototype class for 2012, allowing for production-based designs.
In most other series, teams tend to update their vehicles every few years or so ( examples include the 2005 vs. 2010 Mustangs in the Continental Challenge and the two different generations of Mazda RX-8 in the Rolex Series ).
* IMSA GT Championship – lasted from 1971 to 1998 and replaced by ALMS and the Rolex Series.
* United States Road Racing Championship-emerged out of the IMSA GT split, became the Rolex Series.
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