Wristwatch titbits
0 Comments | Manawatu Standard; Palmerston North, New Zealand, Jul 12, 2010
About 80 million watches are made around the world each year.
The diamond-inlaid Big Bang Chronograph by Hublot is one of the most expensive watches in the world at US$1 million.
Rolex is the most copied watch brand in the world.
The first wristwatch was said to have been presented to Elizabeth I by the Earl of Leicester in 1572.
Ian Fleming’s James Bond character wore a Rolex Oyster Perpetual in the series of spy novels
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