Unbelievable

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Anyone got any good stories about Rolex, I found this one the other day about the 5513 and how it got its reference number.

Not many people know but Jacques Coustard as part of a sponsorship deal used his men to dive for the pearls that were used on the submariner bezels. However due to a contract dispute this was halted.

Rolex had to find a solution quick. At the time, 1961, filming had started in Jamaica for the bond movie Dr No. It was decided that some of the highly trained Swiss Rolex technicians assigned to the movie to advise on watches, could be used when the film was not shooting to dive for the pearls. 13 guys were chosen.

To the cries of "we are going in" they plunged to the bottom of the sea. Although highly trained, the inquest found they were high altitude technicians, who had been used to test the Explorer model on the Matterhorn before the big one, Everest. Being Swiss they could not swim or talk fluent English. In fact they were not saying "we are going in" but were crying "we can't f***ing swim as they were eased over the side of the boat.

And that is how the 13 were remembered, on the 5513

Unbelievable I hear you all cry, and it is.