Mr Rolex Orange Hand, Reinhold Messner & Sir Edmund Hillary’s original vintage Explorer II ref 1655…



Updated: The imposant Castle Sigmundskron on top of the mountain, where Mr Messner started the MMM Firmian, Messner Mountain Museum
is the place where I met a great Rolex legend. Reinhold Messner
is my living hero, a pure and passionated mountaineer who proved that the imposible IS possible. His MMM project he calls it the 15th 8000mt mountain he conquered (14 x highest mountains of the world & his mountain museums makes No.15) So here are some impressions of my meeting with Mr. Mountain, alias Mr Orange Hand, all was perfect, weather, the interesting talks about Rolex history, food, life can be good!




My ‘heritated’ white 42mm Rolex Explorer II & lovely patina on all original Sir Ed Hillary’s ref 1655…

Together with yet another Rolex legend of exploration, at his incredible castle in Bozen.. And yes, Mr. Reinhold Messner liked ‘my’ Explorer II very much as you can see!















As I was enjoying the crisp beauty of a newcomer, a ref 1655 Orange Hand mit rare ‘Rail-Dial’ that are generally still undervalued compared to equily rare Sea Dwellers or Submariners from same age. With the new attention Rolex gave the Explorer 2 last year, we already see them get very rare to find in this condition.
This 3.7 million serial ( 1973 ) makes this rare Rail Dail from the very early batch, most we know are from ’74-’77. Definitely not easy to find, specially with this white lumious it has a divine look guys like Reinhold Messner suits well..

Here we see the ref 1655 Rail Dial together with the new 42 mm Explorer II Orange Hand, heritated, and on the right, the original Rolex Explorer II, given by Rolex Geneva directly to Sir Edmund Hillary for his enormous achievements.


Sir Ed is wearing his Orange Hand during the ‘Ocean to Sky Expedition’, up close in the picture

Sir Edmund Hillary’s Rolex 1655 I’m wearing with Rolex 2013 advertising, 60 year after conquer Mt.Everest…

Tenzing Norgay’s Rolex ref 1655 Orange Hand he got from Heinrich Harrer..

2 mountain heros / gods together; Sir Edmund Hillary & Reinhold Messner posing for a Rolex ad…

3 x original Sir Edmund Hillary ‘Explorer’, all presented by Rolex Geneva.. The middle one, the Hillary Rolex Bosecks, is on display at NZ Auckland Museum.



Mr Orange Hand himself, Reinhold Messner in action with his ref 1655..

Must to see! –> Messner – The Movie
Check out the Trailer here

探险家

人表合一，最高境界。

1971年的探2应该很难遇到了
这么多，是探粉啊
一代探2是等腰，后来改为等边，现在又改回等腰了，
还是等腰美观

好美丽的表~

毒死人的

啥情况，同一款买那么多？

味道很足！

难道是复刻的前奏？

人家一只表，戴半辈子，陪着爬山涉水，上山下海，
老了才有回忆。。。
反观我们，都是“收藏家”。

那老爷子脖子上挂的好像是天珠啊。

我们现在买表太多，戴表太少