Every Rolex tells a story

[Boopie]

The dive stories (and photos) are very cool. My Rolex doesn't tell a story nearly that dangerous (and there is certainly no watch part embedded in my hand or wrist)...unless you count the time I wore my watch into a jacuzzi, risking damage to the inner rubber gaskets on the crown.

My husband and I met while we were 19-year-old college students, and married 3 years later, while in law school. I insisted that I did not (and still do not want) a diamond on my wedding ring. I have a plain, gold band. For the Valentine's Day before our 10th wedding anniversary, he got me my Yachtmaster. I jokingly refer to it as "my diamond." I wear it and appreciate it each day. I get far, far more satisfaction out of my watch than I would out of a rock on my wedding ring.

[TempoKing]

Believe it or not...I do not have the book
My story is that I have a 1915 Rolex dust-proof prototype
Nothing exciting in the past 30 something years that I own it.
I knew there was a british officer who owned it before me
I bet he could have told us a story or two..
His name was either Major or Colonel Smithe (Ret) - British Army

[Subfiend]

Originally Posted by Boopie

The dive stories (and photos) are very cool. My Rolex doesn't tell a story nearly that dangerous (and there is certainly no watch part embedded in my hand or wrist)...unless you count the time I wore my watch into a jacuzzi, risking damage to the inner rubber gaskets on the crown.

My husband and I met while we were 19-year-old college students, and married 3 years later, while in law school. I insisted that I did not (and still do not want) a diamond on my wedding ring. I have a plain, gold band. For the Valentine's Day before our 10th wedding anniversary, he got me my Yachtmaster. I jokingly refer to it as "my diamond." I wear it and appreciate it each day. I get far, far more satisfaction out of my watch than I would out of a rock on my wedding ring.

I bought my wife a TT YM as a wedding present when we were married in 2005. She is not a flashy person, and she was embarassed by the watch, but she wears it because she loves me and she actually likes it.

She was also a newly certified diver when we got married. Her first ocean dive was a night dive with me and this guy, an astronaut/dancer, on a reef off Belize. I expected her to be nervous, but she wasn't.



We went in at dusk, when we could still see underwater in the fading light and orient ourselves to the reef. Thirty minutes later, it was pitch black except for the critters that glowed underwater. She was holding my hand VERY tightly as we made our way back to the boat, at which point a small reef shark passed underneath me and between my legs. It passed by so closely that it actually knocked the light out of my hand. I guess it was after a fish that I had illuminated with my light. She kept her cool.

My wife is totally unphased by celebrities, wealth, brand names and most of the things that people seem to treasure. She does, however, enjoy new experiences, and this was one of them. Her Yacht-Master just happened to be along for the ride.

[Subfiend]

Every Rolex tells a story, but not always.

As some of you know, I recently acquired this 1974 Rolex Sea-Dweller from a retired U.S. Navy SEAL Captain. The watch was a gift from the original owner. Originally, I had offered to pay for it, but then the gentlemen refused saying, "Please accept the watch with my compliments" because I had helped him solve a very difficult problem.



Last week, I was trying to learn more about the history from the original owner. He was characteristically brief, not revealing much more than he received the watch as a gift in the mid-1970s and he wore it during his time in the Navy. Today, I received a letter from him saying, "The Rolex was a gift to me . . . sometime in the 70s I believe - it served me for 20 years as a SEAL Operator all over the world."

Admittedly, this was not a lot of information, so I did some digging and found a more revealing public bio of the original owner. One interesting fact jumped out at me. The watch and its owner spent a great deal of time at a place called Tiger Island off the Pacific Coast of Honduras in the early to mid-1980s. Google it. See for yourself what the Navy SEALs were doing on a little island off the southwest coast of Honduras during the first Reagan administration. I just had to smile.

[BZA]

Just read this thread - epic!!

[roadie1]

Very cool!


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[up2nogood]

Good dredging, what a great thread!
Afraid I can't add anything of substance to it, however.....

[tkerrmd]

no story to tell, just use the Daytona at Daytona for what it was made for...

[phils]

My stories pale compared to the great stories here.
I have posted my ice diving experience already.
I have also done wreck, night, and search and rescue diving from raising sunken boats to body search.

[lavaman]

GREAT thread

unfortunately all my great tales involve another brand (I bought my GMT last year) or places/events I can't discuss on the Internet.

BUT, a VERY cool book...

perhaps eBay, you say?