Original vintage 1960's Rolex advertisement for the Rolex Submariner dive watch - "If you were racing here tomorrow, you'd wear a Rolex."
Dimensions: Roughly 8 inches wide by 11 inches high.
"When the gun sounds off Newport for the America's Cup, the best watch in the world will be on board. It is a big, tough watch...It takes more than a year to build the best watchin the world. The skippers of the America's Cup contenders feel it was time well spent"
The Intrepid Racing Yacht
The Intrepid is a 12-metre class racing yacht which won the America's Cup in 1967, and again in 1970. Intrepid was designed by Olin Stephens, and was built of double-planked mahogany on white oak frames.
She featured important innovations both above and below the waterline – the rudder was separated from the keel and a trim tab was added, and this new general underbody type, with relatively minor refinements, was used on every subsequent Cup boat until the 12-metre Australia II's winged keel of 1983.
Above decks, Intrepid featured a very low boom, made possible by locating the winches below decks. The low boom caused an "end-plate effect", which allows a smaller amount of air to circulate around the boom and making the lower part of mainsail more efficient. The success of Intrepid was also the cause of some completely new technical features such as separate keel and a rudder to become popular in many production yachts such as Swan 36.
America’s Cup Race
In 1967 Intrepid was skippered by Emil "Bus" Mosbacher, and defeated Australian challenger Dame Pattie. Redesigned in 1970 by Britton Chance, Jr. and skippered by Bill Ficker that year, she defeated another Australian challenger, Gretel II.
In fact, Intrepid remained competitive even against aluminum 12-metre yachts. Redesigned again, this time by her original designer Olin Stephens, Intrepid was back again for a third time in 1974, skippered by Gerry Driscoll. Intrepid came within one race of becoming the only three-time America's Cup defender in history, but lost the final race of the defender trials to Courageous, which would go on to win the Cup that year with Ted Hood at the helm. Ted Hood sold Courageous to Ted Turner who went on to win the 1977 America's Cup with her.
Intrepid underwent a two-year structural restoration, with the bustle area reframed, the bottom replanked for several feet up from the keel, and the deck and deck beams were replaced. Today Intrepid is available for charter out of Newport, Rhode Island along with fellow America's Cup winner Freedom and challenger boat Weatherly.
And the Rolex Submariner? Do we really need to discuss this legendary dive watch?
Well, maybe we will for just a second - the Submariner is a line of sports watches designed for diving and manufactured by Rolex. The first Submariner was introduced to the public in 1954 at the Basel Watch Fair, and was the first watch to be waterproof up to 100 metres (330 ft).
The Rolex Submariner is considered "a classic among wristwatches," manufactured by one of the world's most widely recognized luxury brands. Due to its immense popularity, there are numerous homage watches by well-established watchmakers, as well as illegal counterfeits.
Today, the Submariner models are equipped with Rolex Calibres 3230 and 3235, respectively, and feature luminescent hour markers, a unidirectional rotatable bezel with Cerachrom ceramic insert, and a solid-link Oyster bracelet. Also upgraded with time, since the mid-1950s? Contemporary Submariner models underwater diving depth rating is 300 metres (1,000 ft). Impressive, to say the very least.
