Famous Watches and Their Owners

Here are some of the watches that inspire us. They may be a Grail watch as a result of the historical connection for collectors. They are objects of desire for many. And they tell a story as well as the time.

Actors, Musicians, Presidents and Kings

• The Heuer Monaco and Steve McQueen

• The Rolex Daytona and Paul Newman

• The Omega and Elvis Presley

• The Hamilton Ventura and Blue Hawaii (Elvis Presley)

• The Rolex GMT and Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando)

• The Mathey-Tissot and Elvis Presley

• The Longines and Albert Einstein

• The Gold Speedmaster Professional and Richard Nixon

• The Mudu and The Breitling and George Martin

• The Vulcain Cricket and The President

Space and Airflight Connections

• The Omega Speedmaster Professional and Buzz Aldrin

• The Longines Hour Angle and Charles Lindburgh

• The Poljot and Yuri Gagarin

• The Speedmaster 125 and Cosmonaut Vladimir Djanibekov

Fictional Characters in Films and Books

• Movie Watches

• James Bond Watches

• The Rolex Submariner and James Bond

• The Patek Phillipe and The Driver

• The Alsta Nautoscaph and Jaws

• The Seiko and Apocalypse Now

• The Mathey-Tissot and The Irishman

• The Doxa and Three Days of The Condor (Robert Redford)

• The Wakmann Regate and The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)

Military Connections

• The Panerai and George H. Rowson

• The Rolex Oyster 3525 Chronograph and James Nutting

To the Extreme - High, Low and Everywhere

• The Rolex Oyster and Tenzing Norgay

• The Smiths Deluxe and Sir Edmund Hillary

• Concord Delirium - The Worlds Thinnest Watch

• The Watches of Jacques Cousteau

• Jim Clark and His Watches

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