![]() ![]() Like so many relics at the museum, Todd Beamer’s Rolex also bids to arrest that process, evoking something intimate by providing both a record of a death and equally a window into a life. In the years since, the phrase has been used so often - by a sitting president, musicians, athletes, movie and TV actors, writers and commentators, Nascar drivers and the Air Force - that, in an almost paradoxical sense, the real Todd Beamer risked getting lost again to the grander historical narrative. “Let’s roll!” were Todd Beamer’s last recorded words, uttered as he and his fellow passengers made a brave if futile attempt to overpower the Al Qaeda operative Ziad Jarrah and his fellow terrorists. Unlike so many who committed heroic acts that day, those who died and disappeared and those who survived, the 32-year-old Oracle executive and father is remembered widely for a kind of battle cry. Beamer’s shattered Rolex has been an object of deep fascination for many of the museum’s 720,000 visitors, perhaps because it carries an extra freight of meaning. By all accounts, Peggy Benson was a no-frills woman whose single vanity was her watch.Įach is symbolically resonant, and yet Mr. Benson, a 52-year-old Port Authority worker last seen alive outside a Borders bookstore adjacent to the twin towers. But there is also a dainty wristwatch worn by Margaret L. There is an antique chronometer that Richard Guadagno, a 38-year-old biologist who managed the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Loleta, Calif., had on Flight 93 as he prepared to return home from a visit to New Jersey, where he had celebrated his grandmother’s centenary. There is a wall clock from the offices of the Department of the Navy at the Pentagon. “But there are also other timepieces that speak to that timeline and narrative in another way, since everybody more or less wears a watch, this intimate object that has touched the body.” “So, yes, there’s the Beamer watch, which takes on a whole aura because his particular story is quite well known,” Ms. “Time as a concept, as in timepieces, is a consistent thread” in any historical rendering of the events of that fateful day, said Jan Seidler Ramirez, chief curator and director of collections at the museum. There are crucial timeline reconstructions of the day’s events. Of the 800 or so recovered artifacts on view at the National September 11 Memorial Museum, many relate to the telling of time. That was the date in September 2001 when four terrorists hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 and crashed it into a reclaimed strip mine near Shanksville, Pa., killing Mr. Frozen in a small indicator window of Todd Beamer’s Rolex is the number 11. Smashed now, charred and fragmented, missing its crystal, the sweep-second hand and what would appear to be the minute hand and also half the bracelet, the watch still tells time, in a sense, but only one time. It is a Rolex, one of millions of wristwatches produced over the decades by this notable producer of high-end timepieces, and when originally sold it cost roughly $7,700. ![]() It is a chronometer, which is to say a precision watch that enables its wearer to measure elapsed time, not in the way a stopwatch might, but with great accuracy. The instrument itself is a two-tone Oyster Perpetual Datejust, with a 41-millimeter case, an unusual grooved dial of 18-karat gold, a gold-and-silver Jubilee bracelet and a signature flip-lock clasp. Kriviti samo flippere je smiješno po meni, oni tu odrade najveći posao, ali i zarade. Sve se svodi na supply/demand, ako nemaš ogromni demand nemaš ni flipperske cijene.įlipper, dealer, costumer.svi su oni naizgled na suprotnim stranama, ali ne mogu jedan bez drugoga, hoću reći pohlepa je kod svih prisutna. Korekcija cijene za neke prenapuhane modele su logične jer su prebrzo išli prema gore, ali kad vidiš još uvijek su 2-3 puta veće od retail-a (govorim nakon korekcije).īilo kako bilo cijene će još rasti, a svjedoci smo rasta svih ostalih brandova pa uskoro i Rolexa. Isto tako novac imaš ili nemaš, sve ostalo je ono što se kaže wishfull thinking u smislu pada cijena na skoro retail razinu. Nikakav voz nije prošao, sat imaš ili nemaš. Promijenilo se i da je teže uletit kod AD-a uzeti prvi pristojan sat.ĪD je počeo povećavati zvanja prema ljudima koji su već naručili satove prije, a za nove zaboravi da ćeš ga dobiti po uvjetima kao i prije. Pa prodati će ga privatno gdje može dobiti najveću cijenu. ![]() Promijenilo se da watch dealer-i ne žele više uzimati od flippera za velike cijene (mada istim tim dealer-ima nije problem kada kupe sat po najmanje mogućoj cijeni prodavati po premium cijenama - ciganluk na najjače).Īli flipper mora prodati watch dealer-u sat? ![]()
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