Oris advertising behind home plate at the Astros game
IMO Panerai dive watches (along with big IWC Pilot watches) are synonymous with the 2000s big watch craze.AgLA06 said:
That's a great read. Thanks for posting it!
I had heard of Panerai, but I guess never really knew their story. Quite interesting. Cost wize they appear to be pretty on par with Tudor and of similar connection to Rolex.
I had never heard of Sangin Instruments, but I really like them. I guess I'll need to learn more about them. Especially at their price point.
Also, I found this part interesting.
"In the halls of "Langley" the colloquial term for CIA Headquarters the ties of watches to the Intelligence Community are evident. The CIA is composed of tribes, and timepieces are subtle indications of an officer's tribe or identity. Burly paramilitary officers with beards are seen wearing Panerai, Sangin Instruments, and Bremont. European officers are drawn to dressier Jaeger-LeCoultre and IWC pieces to match fine tailored suits, while officers who serve in the Middle East and Africa may wear Breitling or Rolex, with the most fortunate ones showing the crest of a Middle Eastern nation."
yeah but I can see some greasy guido friend of the Church giving it to some hapless Msgr, and some Msgr giving it to Pope Francis saying "this gift came for you" and him not knowing what it was and just wearing it.FTAC2011 said:
Lol totally photoshopped. That dude sometimes doesn't even wear shoes to make sure he humbled himself
I love the author's IG page, @watchesofespionage. He's posted a British SAS Explorer II that'd be badass to own if I had an extra $100K laying around.Charismatic Megafauna said:
Neat article
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/a-former-cia-case-officer-reveals-the-surprising-connection-between-watches-and-espionage
In 1943, Ilia Tolstoy and Brooke Dolan, both members of the CIA's predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), presented the Dalai Lama with a Patek Philippe reference 658 on behalf of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Reportedly, the purpose of the gift was to win the Dalai Lama's support for a potential road through Tibet into China to assist the Chinese in fighting the Japanese.
Cuban President Fidel Castro gave two Rolexes to Argentine socialist revolutionary Che Guevara, including a Rolex GMT-Master 1675 that was "liberated" by CIA paramilitary officer Felix Rodriguez after Guevara's October 1967 death in La Higuera, Bolivia.
yeesh going down the rabbit hole, imagine paying $8k for a watch with this thing in it.Diggity said:
read an article a while back about Panerai marketing cheap ETA movements as "in-house" on $30K watches.
Ended up learning about the interesting history of the brand. Marketing is a powerful thing!
https://perezcope.com/2021/08/08/panerai-in-house-movements-a-pam-of-worms/
https://perezcope.com/2021/08/22/revisting-panerais-pam-of-worms/
Silian Rail said:
I gotta know more
Popes wear green vestments. Just depends on what is being 'celebrated'. Green is traditionally "Ordinary Time" in Catholicism.FHKChE07 said:
Also, I am pretty sure that isn't the pope. I don't think he would wear green ever.
my friend, I wouldn't mind if this Pope had a little more Shari'ah in him.schmendeler said:
He's signalling his secret Muslim loyalty
My girlfriend's uncle is a pastor. (I think it's a smallish church, but not sure.) Met him for the first time a few months ago and he was wearing a very nice watch. He said over a year ago one of his church member's walked down the isle and whispered "God told me to give you my watch" and put it in his hand.Silian Rail said:yeah but I can see some greasy guido friend of the Church giving it to some hapless Msgr, and some Msgr giving it to Pope Francis saying "this gift came for you" and him not knowing what it was and just wearing it.FTAC2011 said:
Lol totally photoshopped. That dude sometimes doesn't even wear shoes to make sure he humbled himself
Case in point, my pastor is a pretty down to earth guy but has a $4,000 watch that he wears as it was a gift from when he was the pastor at an ultra-rich catholic church in the woodlands.
Having a father that is a Catholic Deacon and Catholic School education K-12 finally paying off!! lolFHKChE07 said:
I see that you are correct. I had just never seen a pope in anything other than white and red. I know that green is for ordinary time but didn't think that it applied to the Pope.