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Framed 1984 Vintage Rolex GMT-Master Watch Original Magazine Advertisement
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Framed 1988 Vintage Rolex Explorer II Chronometer Watch Original Magazine Advertisement
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Framed 1988 Vintage Rolex Explorer II Chronometer Watch Original Magazine Ad
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Framed 1988 Vintage Rolex Explorer II Chronometer Watch Original Magazine Advertisement (ID: Rolex15)
Offered for sale here is a framed original Rolex Watch magazine advertisement from 1988.
The text on the print reads:
Where to spend the worst winter in the world.
Brabant Island doesn’t invite visitors. An inhospitable and violent terrain off the Antarctic Peninsula, it has been largely avoided by man since the first recorded landing there in 1898.
For all its harshness, Commander Chris Furse felt drawn to this wild and desolate place. Crazier still, he intended to spend more than a year there — including a winter in tents and snow holes. It was to be the first-ever overwintering in the Antarctic without a hut for living quarters.
Why?
First, the scientific reason. Overwintering would enable Chris Furse and his team to investigate the annual cycles in the island’s meteorology and in its plant, animal and bird life. Lack of a base hut would provide physiological data on man’s ability (or otherwise) to survive an Antarctic winter under constant threat from dehydration, frost-bite and hypothermia. For man, as Chris had always to remember, is a tropical animal.
Behind the scientific curiosity was a dream. Commander Furse says, "The White Continent has always been a dream of mine." His introduction to it in 1970 was not a disappointment. "I was enthralled by the beauty, the power, the isolation."
For the team that landed on Brabant Island in January 1984 the initial impetus was adventure — to set the first footprint on some remote mountain. We were fulfilling a desire to set man against nature at its very worst.
As north-easterly blizzards obliterated their base camp, as the bottom dropped out of the thermometer, as 3,000-tonne icebergs spun on the heaving sea like toys, the men felt reduced to insignificance: tiny witnesses of a world of ice, waiting for life’s first start.
At the end they knew that they had achieved more than survival. *The attraction," Chris Furse maintains, "was discovering the unknown, discovering oneself and close companionship in hardship and danger — all surrounded by the magic and romance of the last continent."
Commander Furse is not such a romantic that he would tackle the Antarctic without minute attention to equipment. Three years were spent preparing for this expedition. But there was never any doubt that his chosen watch would be one that he knew he could depend on utterly: his Rolex Explorer II.
"We didn’t have an external time-check for nine months," he says. "And we didn’t need one."
THE ROLEX EXPLORER II CHRONOMETER. AVAILABLE IN STAINLESS STEEL WITH WHITE OR BLACK DIAL.
This print is almost 40 years old, so there will be signs of age. Some discoloration is commonplace and often there are small tears and signs of wear — little badges of authenticity.
There will be images and/or text on the back-side of your print. In some cases this may be slightly discernible through your print.
The brand-new A4 frame measures 22.7cm x 31.7cm x 1.0cm.
The print sits centered on an A4 sheet of Canson Iris Vival 185gsm card stock and is held in place using a single Goldbuch acid-free adhesive.
I can post via Toridilli or you can pickup from Jätkäsaari or Punavuori - whatever suits you best.
Let me know if you’re interested in purchasing more than one item and I’ll combine postage whenever possible.
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