Unknown Provenance- Pandora's Box?

[JennyFurLynn]

No Box, No Papers.

Amazing the things a newbie doesn't consider when purchasing a Rolex from the internet (ie. fleabay) - I wish I knew who my vintage 1970's ladies datejust belonged to! Could it be a business woman who paved the way early in the corporate world? A socialite wife? A gift to a mistress?


From a member on the forum I found the price of my watch new (below)-it was either $1,500 or $1,900! According to research of 1979 the Average Cost of new house $58,100.00
and the Average Income per year $17,500.00.


This little watch was a chunk of change at that time (like the new ones are today- quite the investment!)

This brings me to my dilemma- I am too afraid to ever dig deeper to find out where my little love came from! What if the parting from the original party was not as joyous as I would imagine?

My imagination says: socialite wife sells watch to spite the fact she found her husband had purchased a like watch for his mistress, she uses the cash to buy books for her first year of law school..... and somewhere in there my watch has a story....

My fear is there could be the slightest chance the watch was separated from the first party by other unhappy means- and much like finding out you are adopted- once you you go there you can't go back.

Well, tell me if you've ever "gone there" and what the outcome was! ::X: