Lately, the Rolex Day-Date was added to the Canadian pop/R&B singer, songwriter and actor Justin Bieber’s collection of watches. The Oyster Perpetual Day-Date is surely meant for the world’s elite and reflects the success and achievement of the people who dare to wear it on their wrists. When Date-Date was introduced, immediately it became the watch of influential people and stood to make a statement. It became the face of those who believe in innovations and respect the class and elegance. The Rolex Day-Date is recognised by achievers who have made a mark and status for themselves in this world.

The Rolex Day-Date comes with a President bracelet to ensure the comfort for people who wear a Rolex. President bracelet is a beautiful combination of creativity and tradition along with advanced technical aspects and class manufacturing. It is produced with great care, by selecting proper raw materials to specifically design it for the Day-Date.  After indulging in five years of research, Rolex introduced the Blue Parachrom Hairspring. It was made from the paramagnetic alloy, which is ten times more resistant to shocks. The Blue Parachrom Hairspring makes the Rolex Day-Date the most accurate timepiece. Rolex Day-Date II has managed to enhance the original Day-Date to greater levels by introducing more technical expertise in it. The Rolex Day-Date is available in yellow gold, white gold, everose gold and platinum. The dials are available in black, black set with diamonds, white, ice blue, champagne, chocolate, silver set with diamonds and black concentric, each one of them making a different impact. The days in the weeks can be presented in different languages making it an interesting timepiece.

Celebrities who have the Rolex Day-Date now include the well known Canadian pop/R&B singer Justin Bieber. “One Time�, Bieber’s debut single was released in 2009 and spiked in the top ten in Canada along with peaking in the top thirty in a number of international markets. The success started with his debut single and soon he became a renowned singer among youngsters. Justin soon became the first artist to have seven songs from a debut album chart on the Billboard Hot 100 after his debut album My World in November 2009. Justin’s first studio release World 2.0 came in March 2010 and became number one and within the top ten in a number of countries. It was also certified platinum in United States. Recently, the music video of the famous song “Baby� is ranked as the most viewed on YouTube.   Titles like “Teen Icon� and “Teen Hearthrob� makes him one of the youngest achievers who have been able to spread his charm across the globe. And owning a Rolex Day-Date speaks volumes about his success and popularity in no time.

Rolex Top 10 Final will have Olympic Champion Eric Lamaze of Canada returning to the show jumping arena. Eric Lamaze will return to the Rolex Top 10 Final after finishing second in the Paris Gucci Masters featured event that took place on Friday, 3rd of December at Parris in France. The top ten riders in the Rolex World Rider Rankings will be seen going through tough competition over two rounds in the Rolex Top 10 Final.

The number one position holder in the Rolex World Rankings since June 2011, Lamaze created two rounds riding Coriana van Klapscheut. The second round time of 48.25 seconds, producing two clear rounds so far. The only competitor to produce two clear rounds after Lamaze was Ireland’s Billy Twomey, who was riding Tinka’s Serenade and was at a marginal time of  48.03 seconds. On the other hand Germany’s Ludger Beerbaum made mistakes in the second round to place third riding Gotha FRH.

The event is regarded a prestigious one and the main highlight after Gucci Grand Prix in Paris as acclaimed by the Rolex Top 10 Final Lamaze. Gucci Grand Prix is the event that takes place every year at different indoor show jumping venues. Lamaze also said that if one wants to participate in such events the horse needs to have done some of the bigger 1.60m grand prix events, but as he was riding Coriana which has only done 1.50m speed events before and not the ones like Rolex Top 10 Final. Though, Coriana was successful in jumping at the event comfortably. Coriana van Klapscheut is nine years speedy horse, old Belgian Warmblood mare owned by Artisan Farms in partnership with Lamaze’s Torrey Pines Stable.

Since Lamaze had lost his Olympic gold medal partner, Hickstead it will be Lamaze’s first European appearance marked by the CSI5* Paris Gucci Masters. Hickstead malformed and died of an acute aortic rupture causing heart failure after completing the four fault round in the World Cup Grand Prix at Verona in Italy, on November six. Since then Lamaze has not participated in the jumping tournament and this will be his first European show at Paris. Earlier he was competing in the at Toronto’s Royal Agricultural Winter Fair after which the tragedy took place. It will definitely not be an easy task for Lamaze, but he has all the support of the other layers with him.

It is also speculated, whether Lamaze will find another Olympic-calibre horse to enter the championship as the horses competing in the 2012 London Olympics should be owned by the country to represent by December 31, 2011. Lamaze will be competing and riding Coriana van Klapscheut at the Gucci Grand Prix taking place on Sunday. He will also be a part of the CSI5*-W Geneva in Switzerland that will take place from 8 December till 11December before he returns to the winter season in North America.

Lamaze will also be seen competing throughout the Winter Equestrian Festival. It is a twelve week show jumping circuit that takes place in Wellington, Florida attracting best show jumping competitors globally.

Ray Mason and Ryan Eversley will team with Compass360 Racing (C360R) and plan to enter Grand-Am competition in 2012. Talking about Mason, he has an extensive experience in Grand-Am, and has participated in various tournaments for many years. He has raced Mustangs and BMWs in the GT cars Rolex series and as well as in the Continental Tire series. Having participated in prestigious tournaments like the Rolex series, whose 2012 series will begin in January, he gathered enough experience.  Rolex Series organises various tournaments from which Ray Mason participated in Ford Racing Mustang Challenge. He is also known to have proudly served two tours of duty in Vietnam as a veteran.

Ryan Eversley, on the other hand marks his third participation with this year’s C360R. During the 2011 Continental Sports Car Challenge championship he managed to get a runner-up slot but aims to do it better this time. Both of them are no strangers to each other, as last year Ray Mason raced their team’s Honda in World Challenge Touring Car. He occupied fifth position in that championship. The duo, this time will have new 2012 Honda Civic Si coupes. They plan to start with the preparation at the Roar keeping in mind the ‘Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway’ that is scheduled in early January next year.

C360R has been representing a Honda brand for seven years in the Grand-Am. Partners at Honda Performance Development and the team are optimistic of winning a fifth Manufacturer’s title jointly in the coming event.
Team Principal Karl Thomson remarked about the newly formed team that he is excited to declare the pairing of Ray and Ryan. It is one of the first driver pairings for 2012. Last year, they lost for a third consecutive championship by only a few points and they are eager to get back on the top spot. Adding further he said that Ray Mason did a great job for them last year in the World Challenge. Expectations are high from the pairing of Ray and Ryan. With the new Civic Si they should be able to bring Honda and HPD another Manufacturer’s title.

Ryan Eversley was also happy with the developments and commented that they have been testing the new 2012 car and he seems to like it very much. Honda Performance Development team has created a great package by working closely with the team. Ray’s performance is also expected to be great in the opening stint as he is quite focused. When asked Mason, he stated that he earlier had a wonderful time in the World Challenge and he is glad to go for a championship in Grand-Am. This event is going to be extremely competitive but the team is aware of how to transform the efforts to a win.

Former Arsenal star footballer Lauren Etame Mayer was elated when he got back his Rolex Daytona worth £6000. He lost his Rolex Daytona six years ago when it was stolen away in a burglary. The Cameroonian defender was quite sure that he would not be able to see his prized possession once again. In a raid conducted earlier this year, the Metropolitan Police Officers searched addresses in Bethnal Green and Essex and found more than 400 stolen items worth £500,000 in east London.

Arsenal star footballer and Cameroonian defender Lauren Etame Mayer’s Rolex Daytona was one of the recovered items. The 34 year old Cameroonian footballer was elated to find his lost watch after six years. Lauren Etame Mayer played for Arsenal from 2000 to 2007. The Metropolitan Police revealed that the watches were most probably stolen during armed robberies on jewelers, household burglaries and thefts all across south-east England from 1994 to 2010.

In the items recovered by the Metropolitan Police, they found jewellery, silverware and antiques. Air rifles and a decommissioned pump-action 308 Remington rifle were also found among the recovered items. Most of the wrist and pocket watches found in the raid were not less than a collector’s prize. The Met Police say that majority of the watches were produced in limited numbers and would be identifiable by their owners. The Police very quickly realized that one of the watches recovered was a very expensive Rolex Daytona which belonged to the Cameroonian defender and Arsenal star Lauren Etame Mayer. The Police at once caught hold of the Arsenal Football Club officials as soon as they discovered the watch and asked for their help to reach the Cameroonian defender. Deputy Sergeant Richard George of the Tower Hamlets Crime Squad said that his team was really delighted to find Lauren Etame Mayer’s watch and reunite him with his prized possession. The Met Police came to the conclusion after discovering how this watch was stolen in March 2005. A 73-year-old man was arrested for handling stolen goods on July 6. He has been bailed to return to an east London police station in December pending further inquiries.

During the 1997–98 seasons, Thomas N’Kono discovered of Lauren Etame Mayer’s ability to do miracles on the football ground. He was invited to join the squad that played in the 1998 World Cup. Lauren Etame Mayer was successful and rose up to the challenge. He earned his first full international cap for Cameroon in May 1998 against Luxembourg. Unfortunately, his debut in the tournament as a substitute was scarred by one of the fastest sending offs in the history of the World Cup, when in his first challenge for the ball he was shown a red card, thus ending his World Cup campaign.

After completing the 13-jump course as a part of the fourth leg of the Rolex Federation Equestre Internationale World Cup, Eric Lamaze’s Hickstead collapsed and died. Eric Lamaze was ranked as the No. 1 show jumper in the world by the Rolex rankings. This was for the third time that Eric Lamaze was declared as the No. 1 show jumper in Rolex rankings. The Rolex Federation Equestre Internationale World Cup was being held in Italy, on Sunday. Hickstead and his rider Eric Lamaze had completed a flawless round of show jumping till Hickstead crashed to the ground under his rider and breathed his last in the ring. Spectators all over the grandstand watched the incident in absolute horror and were feeling extremely sorry for the beautiful stallion. Hickstead was considered to be one of the top athletes in Canada.

Eric Lamaze had won an individual gold and silver medal for his Canadian team with the stallion at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Hickstead looked absolutely fine after it had started losing its strength in its legs and almost started giving up as it started to walk unsteadily. This was quite evident during its jumps between two brightly colored jumps in the arena in Verona. A Dutch Warmblood, Hickstead was carried out of the ring as soon as he died. Both Eric Lamaze, Hickstead’s rider for a long time and John Fleischacker and his family, who co-own the horse disagreed to talk to the press. Tonya Henning, a 26 year Canadian grand prix rider said that Hickstead was born to compete and win. Tonya Henning owns Mill Creek Stables in Cambridge, Ontario. She said that she was previously trained under Eric Lamaze. Tonya Henning said that Hickstead was known for his intense and active demeanor in the ring. He was always ready to be as bad as the rider wants him to be – added the 26 year old Canadian.

Experts believe that Hickstead was the trump card for Eric Lamaze. The stallion was responsible to shoot up Eric Lamaze’s career to the next level. He was declared as the no. 1 show jumper in the world in the Rolex rankings last summer just above Sweden’s Rolf-Goran Bengtsson and the American Olympian Mclain Ward. Hickstead’s death was a dramatic one as he lay shaking on his back with hooves trembling in the air for several minutes. The incident was not only witnessed by the thousands and thousands of spectators in the grandstand, but it was also broadcast on television and on Federation Equestre Internationale’s website also. The video spread like a fire in the internet. An autopsy is still pending on Hickstead’s death. However, Karyn Malinowski, the director of the Equine Science Center at Rutgers University in New Jersey said that immense coronary. According to him, horse is a natural blood doper. So, when it is engaged in an athletic event, it automatically dumps tons of red blood cells into the bloodstream. This is what makes a horse a wonderful athlete. AT the same time, due to this increase in blood formation, the blood does become thicker, and if the horse was prone to a weakened heart, it might have burst out.

On the request of the competitors, the show jumping World Cup competition has been suspended for this Sunday. Princess Haya bint al-Hussein of Jordan, the president of the federation, said that Hickstead’s death was a terrible loss.