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12 February 2023, 12:25 AM | #1 |
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Smh just found out about Rolex King Midas
Shame on me. A solid Rolex collection and I only this week found out that a Rolex King Midas (and a Cellini) version exist. What a gorgeous piece hut now that vintage watches are coming back the price is too much
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12 February 2023, 01:23 AM | #2 |
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Just be aware that the King Midas is not water proof at all, not even for a shower.
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12 February 2023, 03:47 AM | #3 |
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Beautiful watch, came in a super cool box as well
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12 February 2023, 03:51 AM | #4 |
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Also no shame, we all learn something new as collectors every now and then, sometimes more frequently sometimes less. But for me that is the fun of it.
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12 February 2023, 09:27 AM | #5 |
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Elvis was given a King Midas in 1970:
https://www.elvispresleynews.com/elv...rolex-watches/ and it is displayed at Graceland complete with water damage, thought to have been caused by wearing it in a hot tub: |
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Lots of creepy Elvis info on that site. Poor guy seemed to have lived a nice life but was exploited
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13 February 2023, 02:53 AM | #7 |
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Wow this is even better, I want
https://ibb.co/Xt8TMdn Ps how do I have photo show up as photo here instead of link to photo |
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13 February 2023, 03:00 AM | #9 |
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Different strokes for different folks.
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13 February 2023, 03:10 AM | #11 |
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Yikes $27,000 on chrono24
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13 February 2023, 03:17 AM | #12 |
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Not for me - don’t see the attraction
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I had the chance to try my friend white gold King Midas and I have to say that the watch is massive, weight a ton but it has is charm because is so unique,
but if I was getting one would definitely be the white gold and the one with written MIDAS on the dial instead of that terrible Cellini in fake italics font Screen Shot 2023-02-12 at 4.11.00 PM.jpg |
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You used to be able to buy these for close to scrap price.
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Once upon a time there was THE Midas, the watch which was made from solid yellow or white gold. The only difference between these was, that there was only a far less WG ever been manufactured. In just some years later, Rolex made a slight change on the bracelet, but it doesn't effect the fact, that even the second series was also made from pure gold, and these watches looked all the same for the first sight. These and only these watches ARE the Rolex MIDASes, like the one on this picture.
After this, Rolex decided to make money from a georgeus watch, and they started to sell cheap fashion "watches" with the name "Cellini" and made from far-far less gold. The only reason why these "watches" use to call "Midas" in the second hand market as these "watches" looks like the Midases, while in my opinion they were not more then cheap inhouse fakes of the original Genta's artwork. That's the reason why the very first Midases are selling for huge money, mostly if these have the original and magnificent "ancient greek vase" looking box. These boxes are in itself are worths a fortune. |
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16 February 2023, 02:13 AM | #20 |
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I am in the vintage game since approx 2 decades and never saw in europa a king midas in the scrap value area... Maybe usual cellini´s but no King midas
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What is pure white gold?
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