click image uploadHere Fidel Castro is seen smoking a Cuban cigar and wearing two Rolex watches in the Kremlin while he chats with Khrushchev, in front of a Karl Marx picture.
On the 27th of April, 1963, the leader of the Cuban Revolution paid his first visit to the USSR.
Fidel Castro was often spotted wearing two Rolex’s at the same time – one of them a GMT, the other one a Submariner. In total the watches gave Castro a three time zone overview by a glance on his wrist. The watches have been set for Havana, Washington and Moscow time. Today Washington D.C. and Havana are in the same time zone (UTC -5), but between the years 1960 and 1964 Havana used the time zone UTC -4. Rolex watches weren’t a status symbol when this picture was taken. They were considered some of the most functional accurate watches of their time (before quartz era started).Η κόκκινη επισήμανση, είναι αυτή που έχουμε πεί αρκετές φορές, ότι ήταν από τα πιο αξιόπιστα και ακριβή για πολλά χρόνια.
Μετά, ήρθαν τα quartz, και η μία ιδιότητα υπερσκελίστηκε.
Τώρα πώς κατήντησαν να γίνουν και status symbol, που σε άλλες εποχές ήταν τα Vacheron και τα Patek, δεν μπορώ να το απαντήσω.
