In the early nineties, my father bought himself a 16600 Sea-Dweller. Before, he worked as a saturation diver (but never owned one in those days), but a couple of years later the Sea-Dweller was there! He wore this watch every day ever since, you never saw him without it. The last couple of years he had his eye on a Deepsea, but as you all know, acquiring it was harder than anticipated. Last summer holidays, we visited a Rolex AD and asked again whether a Deepsea was available. Of course not... but to my big surprise the gentlemen offered to order one! I thought this was some kind of bluff, but one week later he got a call, he could collect his Deepsea I didn't go with him to the AD at that time, when he got back to the appartment he showed off his Deepsea. No trace of the Sea-Dweller anymore. I asked, "where is the Sea-Dweller", he told me the AD offered to take it over... I wished he kept it for himself! An hour or two later he showed up with a present... guess what, I found this: Needless to say I was super happy! Back home, I asked whether he still had the box, the box was soon re-united with the watch. However, the original papers, anchor, outer box, ... where missing. What a pitty! Weeks later I asked to look for the papers again... to my surprise we recovered everything How cool is that? I will never forget that day and this watch will stay with me forever
The tritium indexes on the dial have some patina in reality, doesn't realy show on the pictures (lot of sunlight on the watch)
Amazing story and what a great full set! I love watches with a proper sentimental back story to them, I love the idea of handing one of my watches on one day!
But your case is in much better condition Mine got a 28 year beating It spend a lot of time on construction sites!
