Original vintage 1960s Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch advertisement - "If you were racing at Mosport on Saturday, you'd wear a Rolex."
Dimensions: Approx. 8 inches wide by 11 inches high.
"At 170 mph a Formula One Grand Prix car is travelling roughly 17 yards a fifth of a second. So to say Grand Prix racing drivers have a highly developed snese of timing is something of an understatement. Their lives depend on it....Jackie Stewart thinks it is time well spent. The Rolex he wears is the Datejust."
Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Home of Mosport Speedway
Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (formerly known as Mosport Park and Mosport International Raceway) is a multi-track motorsport venue that is located north of Bowmanville in Clarington, Ontario, Canada, which is approximately 75 km (47 mi) east of Toronto. The facility features a 3.957 km (2.459 mi), 10-turn road course; a 2.900 km (1.802 mi) advance driver and race driver training facility with a 0.402 km (0.250 mi) skid pad (Driver Development Centre) and a 1.500 km (0.932 mi) kart track (Mosport Karting Centre Inc., previously "Mosport Kartways"). The name "Mosport", a portmanteau of Motor Sport, came from the enterprise formed to build the track.
Mosport was a 0.805 km (0.500 mi) oval speedway located on the northwest corner of Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. The track featured 240 m-long (800 ft) straightaways, 6-degree banked corners and two grandstands with seating for 8,500. The oval was constructed in 1989 as a dirt track originally called Mosport's Ascot North, named after the famous Ascot Park track in Gardena, California. The first event was scheduled in July 1989 and was to feature USAC Midgets and Sprint Cars and the World of Outlaws. The races were cancelled after the initial heat races caused deep ruts in the corners and dislodging stones hidden under the clay.
The circuit was the second purpose-built road race course in Canada after Westwood Motorsport Park in Coquitlam, British Columbia, and it was designed and built in the late 1950s. The first race to be held on the track was a local event organized by the Oakville Light Car Club in June 1961. Shortly thereafter, the venue held its first major race, the Player's 200, a sports car race bringing drivers from the world over to rural Ontario.
The proposed hairpin was expanded into two discrete corners, to be of greater challenge to the drivers and more interesting for the spectators, at his suggestion, and is named Moss Corner in his honor. This is a source of lingering confusion as many people call the track Mossport. Unlike many historic motorsport venues, Mosport's track layout has remained mostly unchanged from its original form.
The track was paved that summer and renamed Mosport International Speedway – it hosted a weekly Saturday night stock car racing program from May to September for 24 years. The stock car divisions included pure stock, sportsman and late models. The oval also featured regular touring series including the ACT Series, ISMA Supermodifieds, OSCAAR, Lucas Oil Sportsman Cup, CASCAR Super Series and the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series. The park announced the closing of the oval in July 2013 to accommodate the expansion of the Driver Development Centre.
The Rolex Oyster-Perpetual Datejust
For Rolex, the name of the watch line in catalogs often comes down to "Rolex Oyster ______" or "Rolex Oyster Perpetual ______" - Rolex Oyster and Oyster Perpetual are generic names and not specific product lines, except for a few exceptions. The Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch is a direct descendant of the original watertight Rolex Oyster watch created in 1926.
Within the Oyster Perpetual lineup, there are three different movements; the 39 features the Calibre 3132 movement (the Oyster Perpetual 39 is a variant of the Rolex Explorer 39mm, sharing the same case, bracelet and clasp, bezel, and movement, with a different dial and different hands), while the 34 and 36 models have the Caliber 3130, and the smallest 28 and 31 models have Calibre 2231. The Oyster Perpetual Date 34 (or simply Date 34) adds a date display and date movement, plus the options of a white gold fluted bezel and diamonds on the dial.
Certain models from the Date and Datejust ranges are almost identical, however the Datejust have 36 mm and 41 mm cases paired with a 20 mm bracelet, compared with the Date's 34 mm case and 19 mm bracelet. Modern versions of the Oyster Perpetual Date and Datejust models share Rolex's 3135 movement.
As the Date and Datejust share a movement, both have the ability to adjust the date forward one day at a time without adjusting the time; this feature is not confined to the Datejust.
Compared with the Date, the Datejust has a much wider range of customization options, including other metals beyond stainless steel, various materials for the dial, and optional diamonds on the dial and bezel.
