What's up?
This is Ruben from EsquireLife.com, coming at you on CRM's YouTube channel.
Guys, I wanna send a quick thank you to CRM Jewelers for giving me the opportunity to
be on their Rising Star program, on their YouTube channel.
It gives creators or watch fanatics or watch lovers like myself an opportunity to create
content for them and at the same, I mean if you're a watch lover, if you really love watches,
this is a great opportunity for you guys to do a quick video, submit it to CRM Jewelers
and believe it or not, you can also be featured on their actual YouTube channel.
So, guys thank you so much at CRM, a great, great shout-out and let's go ahead and get
into this video.
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So in this video really quick, what I wanna do is I wanna talk about the watch that started
everything for me.
I'm a big watch guy.
I'm a watch lover.
I don't claim to be an expert, but at the same time, I love watches and believe it or
not, watches for me are milestones that I have in my life.
Now, the watch that I wanna talk to you guys about, very simple, let me pull this out really
quick, OK.
This is a Rolex Submariner two-tone, reference number 16613.
This watch right here guys, this is a 1997, OK, and before I get into the actual schematics
of the actual watch, I wanna tell you a quick story if you guys don't mind.
I actually saw this watch twenty five years ago, twenty three years ago, I saw it at a
mall, and when I saw this watch, it was a watch that intrigued me.
At that time, 23 years old, I didn't know nothing about Rolex, but the fact that it
was a two-tone, gold.
It had the blue face, my favorite color is blue.
As you guys see, I'm wearing a blue shirt right now.
I felt in love with this watch.
I remember walking into the actual store and asking the lady, “How much is that watch
out there?”
She was, “Oh, the Rolex?”
I believe she told me it was about $10,000 for that watch and honestly, twenty-three
years old, I was actually in the Marines, but I had just joined the Marine Corps at
that point.
So just joining the Marine Corps, I didn't have that type of money and I didn't think
I was mature enough to have this watch.
So what I did is I kept this watch in my mind.
Ever time I would go to the jewelry store, I'd always ask to see if they had that watch,
even though not knowing I wasn't gonna buy it, I always made sure, OK this is the watch.
They're still making it.
I'm still able to get this watch in the future, so let's go ahead and fast-forward 25 years
later, believe it or not I got the watch, OK?
But the watch that I purchased was the new version.
I actually got the 116613, which is the actual same thing.
It's a Rolex Submariner two tone, but the one thing is here, this one has the ceramic
bezel.
This one actually has the solid gold link, the 18-karat solid gold link all the way through.
So obviously the big difference...and I'll go over the differences here in a second.
But being at a success level where I was at, I was able to purchase this watch and that's
the great thing about my watches.
I actually buy my watches to wear them.
I don't watch them to keep them up in a safe somewhere or put them in the bank, which is
OK.
Don't get me wrong, but the reason why I buy these watches is because I love wearing them
and because of the fact that this watch was the watch that I wanted 25 years ago.
I was finally able to not only mentally, but now I could financially able to afford it,
but at the same time it was a goal that I had in my life.
And that's probably the moral of my story here is, the fact that when you see something,
it doesn't matter if it's five years, ten years, even twenty five years.
For me, it's something that you wanna go ahead and achieve, so finally when I bought this
watch, it was...I fell in love with it.
I bought it and I've had it ever since.
I've had it since 2015 if you actually go on my actual YouTube channel EsquireLife.com,
you can actually see it on there, where I talk about the same story that I'm talking
about here.
I just wanted to share with you guys.
Now, when I was able to get this one into my hands, the older one, the 1997, I mean
honestly it feels like my life came full circle
This is the watch that I saw twenty five years ago.
In my case being in the Marine Corps, I was actually younger.
Obviously I was lighter, so every time I always refer to years, I don't refer years, I refer
to pounds.
So every time I say, “Oh, this is like 50 pounds ago.”
So 50 pounds ago, if you wanna call it that, this is the watch that I saw in that actual
store.
So now I have the best of both worlds.
I have something that I strived for and believe it or not, I got the one that I wanted, but
at the same time, I can actually compare both of them.
So now, what I wanna do really quick is I wanna show you a quick comparison of the actual
watches.
I mean, very simple.
I'm not gonna delve in too much into it, but obviously the new one's gonna have the ceramic
bezel, where this one actually has the aluminum bezel.
At the same time, if you look at the sides, this one doesn't actually have the holes for
the lugs, but this one does.
That's one of the tale tell signs that you know it's the older version.
Also at the same time too, this one actually has the hollow, gold links, where this one
actually has the solid gold links.
Let's look at the clasp real quick.
If you look at the clasps, you will see Rolex didn't go gold all the way through.
What they did is they went ahead and did the stainless steel, where now with the new ones,
even the older ones not as old as this one, they actually put the gold here, so now it
looks uniform all the way across.
So very simple.
I'm gonna open this up real quick.
Same style of clasp and then I'm gonna pop this open so you can see, they have the old
version of the bracelet clasp right here, but at the same time, I mean look.
Look at the difference.
It's like looking at a classic car and the same model car nowadays in the present.
Other than that guys, I mean very, very beautiful watch.
If you really pay attention, you can't really see the difference.
If I was wearing a suit.
If I was wearing a long sleeve shirt with the cuff on there, if this would have poke
out, you wouldn't see the difference.
It takes that..the guy that knows exactly what he's looking for in watches to say, “Say,
I like your classic watch,” but believe it or not, I mean if I had the chance a buy
this...now, if even before I bought this one, I'd say, you know what, I rather buy this
one because this is the one that I saw twenty-five years ago and now that it's in my hand, I'm
very excited and is why I wanted to share the story with you guys.
So hopefully you guys enjoyed the story.
Once again guys, it doesn't matter if it's watches.
It doesn't matter if it's cars, maybe homes.
You always wanna strive for things and that's my mentality and that's what I talk about
on my channel and I talk about on my website, is achieving goals and how to ...you know,
get to those points.
Not just being complacent in life guys.
So really great guys, I just wanna thanks CRM Jewelers one more time for giving me the
opportunity to create a quick video for you guys.
I'm actually in my kitchen right now, so I know we're in quarantine and all that, but
I want everybody to be safe out there guys.
If you guys are thinking about doing some YouTube, go on the Rising Star on CRM Jewelers,
fill up that form.
Believe it or not, that's how I go on here and hopefully you guys are able to learn guys.
So really great guys, give this video a like, even if you don't like it, give it a like
anyway.
What do you got to lose?
Go ahead and give it a like, even though you don't like it.
A lot of times I read the comments that are on their pages and, believe it or not, there
is a lot of people that have a lot of knowledge about watches.
Well now is your opportunity to take that knowledge that you're leaving the comments,
take that constructive criticism and apply it to your videos and next thing you know,
you can be on CRM Jewelers on their Rising Star program.
I'm gonna actually go for a drive right now cuz it's crazy being in here.
Thank you so much.
Peace!
So hopefully you guys liked the video.
Guys, once again I wanna give a special thank you to CRM Jewelers for giving me the opportunity
to do a video for you guys.
At the same time guys, feel free to follow me on EsquireLife.com, subscribe to my channel
and for more content like this on watches and obviously cars, follow me guys.
Thank you so much!
Peace!