All this talk of patina begs the question.....

[Robert Cross]

Originally Posted by traf

Even if they did, would they remember ...
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I resemble that remar.....

It's hard enough trying to figure out what I need to forget...to make room for what I want to remember.... if you can remember the 60's, you weren't there.

Bob

[seattleal]

Originally Posted by Sav10001

has anyone using this forum even seen a 1960s rolex in the 1960s??

Here's what one looked like on my wrist 150ft underwater in 1965, two years after I bought it:

[g-boac]

Originally Posted by seattleal

Here's what one looked like on my wrist 150ft underwater in 1965, two years after I bought it:

so cool!! A gilt PCG on a dive! Can you share a bit about what you were doing on that dive and what the board you were holding was about? Do you still have the watch?

[traf]

That may be the coolest post I've ever seen 👍👍


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[seattleal]

Originally Posted by g-boac

so cool!! A gilt PCG on a dive! Can you share a bit about what you were doing on that dive and what the board you were holding was about? Do you still have the watch?

To my great regret, I no longer have that watch or the red 1680 I'm wearing in my avatar pic.

In the summers of 1964/65 I worked part-time as a diver in support of a project developing electronic oceanographic instrumentation. This pic was taken about 20 miles off Panama City, FL at one of three stations where we had strings of peanut floats at various depths to investigate rates and types of biological fouling that might affect those newly developed instruments. The top line on the board is the date, the second line indicates which particular float this one is. I was paid $50 a day, which was a lot of money then, and this work helped put me through graduate school.

[sennheiserz]

Originally Posted by seattleal

Here's what one looked like on my wrist 150ft underwater in 1965, two years after I bought it:

Such a cool shot! Those old pieces look so flat across the wrist.


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[dukerules]

Originally Posted by seattleal

Here's what one looked like on my wrist 150ft underwater in 1965, two years after I bought it:

Great pic

[Cortezthekiller]

Great post. It shows there are other perspectives on vintage.

Some people want an old watch that looks as close to NOS. A colleague of mine just bought a 20 year old, mint TT GMT from a TRF seller. Never worn and not a single scratch. When he went to the jeweler in the mall for a quick bracelet adjustment, the lady behind the counter freaked out. It is a beauty.