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12 September 2012, 07:39 AM
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Nipple dial
What is it and why does it cost so much to obtain one? I was at Fourtane in Carmel during the Concours de Elegance and saw 1 TT GMT from the 70's for a small fortune.
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12 September 2012, 08:34 AM
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The nipple dial had broader, beveled gold surrounds on the hour plots with a very small dot of tritium for lume. They were made during a transitional period between the time when Rolex went from plain tritium plots (with no gold surrounds) and the later plots with a thin gold surround (like we see today).
They don't fetch that much more on 16753's in the market - maybe the watch you saw was a 1675 that had other rarity? 
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12 September 2012, 10:40 AM
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Great answer!
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13 September 2012, 02:35 AM
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