Customized Vintage Rolex Corvette, Rolex Hurricane & Rolex Royal...

March 8, 2012 Update on this story:

I originally published this story 4 years ago in 2008. I remember how excited I was to find out that Rolex made a Corvette model watch! A person I knew and trusted at the time, told me I was making a fool out of myself, because he insisted the watches were not real. He told me they were absolutely fake and told me I should take them down. I refused, to take them down, because they looked real to me, and instead, I put up a "Questionable Authenticity" tag on them.

Fast forward to today. I received an extremely nasty email from somebody who did not bother mentioning their name, and I posted it below their apparent image on this page. The simple truth is I was misinformed by a pretentious idiot who was wrong. So today, I removed the "Questionable Authenticity" label, and I sincerely apologize for my error.

Below is the nasty email I received in my inbox from TicTocEdmonton@aol.com:

You owe me a Mia Culpa! First, you stole a picture of mine from the internet (it isn't hard to get permission when someone posts on a forum - you just register with the Forum (www.Timezone.com) and then PM or Email the poster to ask permission to use a picture!

Here is your blog link: http://rolexblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/vintage-rolex-corvette-rolex-hurricane.html

Then you DISSED my picture saying that you had a (un) reliable source who said that the watches never existed!

My friend - you owe me. You owe me for stealing my very real picture of my very real and very genuine watches. And you owe me a public mia culpa on your blog for not following through on your promise to investigate further.

Below is a 95% complete list of the names of the Rolex (and Tudor) watches that were made over the course of the 40s (and some into the fifties)...

If you doubt me, start a thread on TimeZone. I promise to watch and I will post a copy of an original ad for both the Hurricane and the Corvette. You'll find me registered as CanadianOysterWatcher on TimeZone.

Oyster Lipton

Oyster Commander -

Oyser Shipmate -

Oyster Chester -

Oyster Raleigh -

Oyser Regent -

Oyster Lincoln -

Oyster Wellington -

Marconi -

Oyster Pioneer -

Rolex Oyster Viceroy -

Rolex Oyster Royal Observatory -

Rolex Oyster Royalite Observatory -

Rolex Oyster Army -

Rolex Oyster Imperial -

Rolex Corvette Observatory -

Rolex Hurricane Observatory -

Rolex Oyster Ellsworth Observatory

Rolex London Chronometer Observatory -

Rolex Oyster Falcon Observatory -

Rolex Oyster Firefly Observatory -

Rolex Oyster Majestic Observatory -

Rolex Oyster Pall Mall Observatory -

Rolex Oyster Royalite -

Rolex Oyster Royal - Royal Navy

Rolex Oyster Seaforth Observatory - .

Rolex Oyster Drake Precision -

Oyster Grenfell -

Rolex Skyrocket -

Rolex Wellington -

Rolex Victory -

Oyster Explorer -

Oyster Edison -

Oyster Neptune -

Princeton Oyster -

Rolex Oyster Everest -

Tudor Oyster Athlete -

Turtle Timer Zell Bros. -

Tudor Bristol -

Tudor Oyster Air-Lion -

Tudor Oyster Essex -

Tudor Oyster Exeter -

Tudor Oyster Sussex -

Tudor Oyster Yorke -

Tudor Oyster Brock -

Tudor Oyster Air-Tiger,

Tudor Oyster Air-Giant -

Tudor Oyster Kent -

Tudor Oyster Devon -

Tudor Oyster Norseman -

Tudor Oyster Regent -