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This is AN AWESOME READ - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120652944121
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What a cool auction.
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[align=center]VINTAGE ROLEX SUBMARINER DIVE WATCH[/align] [align=left]This is a one-owner watch, purchased by me at the Navy Exchange on Kwajalein Atoll in 1958. It has served me well, but Father Time having caught up with me, I no longer dive. For the last several years it has been sitting in a dresser drawer, and now it's time for somebody else to take itover.[/align] [align=left]I've been wearing the watch the last week or so, and it keeps good time. Cosmetically, it has a few issues. The crystal bears some obvious scratches; the hands are no longer bright and shiny, and the number indicators are a touch yellowed. I can't vouch for its water-tightness.[/align] [align=left]It seems to me that with a trip to the nearest Rolex service establishment it might be restored to its original beauty. I haven't done it because now that I'm in my ninth decade, I'm downsizing and need to unload a lot of what are really just souvenirs. So here's your chance to pick up a rare iconic timepiece.
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[/align][align=left]The successful bidder should contact me by phone when bidding is concluded. I will email my phone number to the winner at the conclusion of the auction. Also, I will pay shipping and insurance. [/align]Many of you have inquired regarding the history of the watch. It's intertwined with my personal history, of course, and at the risk of being very boring, I'll recount it. I was drafted out of my residency training in 1957, and assigned to the U.S. Navy (2 1/2 of the best years I ever spent in my life) I went through the Aviation Medical training program at Pensacola, became a navalflight surgeon and selected The Naval Station on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands as my duty station. We did a lot of scuba diving there, and I bought myself a dive watch at theNavy Exchange. That watch is the present one under discussion, and I paid $70.00 for it. I wore it almost exclusively for the next decade, throughout my neurosurgical residency. I went into private practice in Waco, Texas in 1964, and I practiced for 35 years, finally retiring in 1998. I wore the watch intermittently during that time. I suppose I wore it for an aggregate total of four or five weeks a year. In 1980-1990 I did a lot of scuba diving in the Bahamas, and since this was the only dive watch I ever had, I used it a lot. This to me was just a comfortable old watch of which I was very fond. For the last few years, it has been sitting in a drawer, and since we are downsizing, I thought I might sell it andget $50 or $100 for it. I didn't have a clue regarding the actual value of the piece, and it's a real shock to find it to be a very valuable and desirable item.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120652944121 for more to read
This is AN AWESOME READ - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120652944121
Read the story and all the way down to the question and answers. Expand (read more) to see all the questions.
What a cool auction.
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[align=center]VINTAGE ROLEX SUBMARINER DIVE WATCH[/align] [align=left]This is a one-owner watch, purchased by me at the Navy Exchange on Kwajalein Atoll in 1958. It has served me well, but Father Time having caught up with me, I no longer dive. For the last several years it has been sitting in a dresser drawer, and now it's time for somebody else to take itover.[/align] [align=left]I've been wearing the watch the last week or so, and it keeps good time. Cosmetically, it has a few issues. The crystal bears some obvious scratches; the hands are no longer bright and shiny, and the number indicators are a touch yellowed. I can't vouch for its water-tightness.[/align] [align=left]It seems to me that with a trip to the nearest Rolex service establishment it might be restored to its original beauty. I haven't done it because now that I'm in my ninth decade, I'm downsizing and need to unload a lot of what are really just souvenirs. So here's your chance to pick up a rare iconic timepiece.
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[/align][align=left]The successful bidder should contact me by phone when bidding is concluded. I will email my phone number to the winner at the conclusion of the auction. Also, I will pay shipping and insurance. [/align]Many of you have inquired regarding the history of the watch. It's intertwined with my personal history, of course, and at the risk of being very boring, I'll recount it. I was drafted out of my residency training in 1957, and assigned to the U.S. Navy (2 1/2 of the best years I ever spent in my life) I went through the Aviation Medical training program at Pensacola, became a navalflight surgeon and selected The Naval Station on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands as my duty station. We did a lot of scuba diving there, and I bought myself a dive watch at theNavy Exchange. That watch is the present one under discussion, and I paid $70.00 for it. I wore it almost exclusively for the next decade, throughout my neurosurgical residency. I went into private practice in Waco, Texas in 1964, and I practiced for 35 years, finally retiring in 1998. I wore the watch intermittently during that time. I suppose I wore it for an aggregate total of four or five weeks a year. In 1980-1990 I did a lot of scuba diving in the Bahamas, and since this was the only dive watch I ever had, I used it a lot. This to me was just a comfortable old watch of which I was very fond. For the last few years, it has been sitting in a drawer, and since we are downsizing, I thought I might sell it andget $50 or $100 for it. I didn't have a clue regarding the actual value of the piece, and it's a real shock to find it to be a very valuable and desirable item.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120652944121 for more to read
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