Rolex Oyster Solar Aqua caliber 59 Model 2784 circa 1944 Military Provenance Steel Case

I've been selling for years on ebay and Canadian Watch Collector and MWR under the name What Does Your Watch Say? Please PM for links to my ebay feedbacks and posts on CWC. I'm located in Cambridge, ON Canada. I can take PayPal payments, EMT within Canada and face to face cash transactions are ok too as long as you're willing to drive to the Cambridge, KW area. I pay for the tracked shipping within North America mailed through Canada Post, I don't use FedEx or UPS and International shipping is $25 CAD ($19 USD). If you have any questions please feel free to PM me 👍 Here are my positive feed backs as well:

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Rolex Solar Aqua hand wind watch
Circa 1944
Caliber 59 SC movement
Fontmelon FHF 30-1 base movement
17 jewels
Marked Rolex Geneve within a shield under the dial
Serial number 277219
Model 2784
Steel case
Steel screw down case back
Original Rolex threaded tube
Original Oyster Patent crown with Swiss cross
Crown screws down correctly
Case measures 30mm wide 39mm lug to lug and has 16mm lugs
Dial shows well with some patina
Case shows well
Comes with a leather strap
Movement winds sets and runs plus (+) 60 seconds over 24 hours dial up
Acrylic crystal has shrunk and is loose and should be replaced

The case back is engraved To John from Mam & Dad and has a Canadian WWII Regimental Number military service number B145809. The B refers to MD2 which represented Military District 2 Central Ontario (Toronto) where John was recruited.

$1300 CAD ($1050 USD) shipped within North America OBO

SOLD on another forum. Thank you Omega Forums for hosting and thanks to the OF community for looking 👍

It’s fascinating to me that early and extremely rare Rolex are not valued through the roof.

This one is only 30mm and it seems that unless a watch is the size of a hockey puck that there's no perceived value in it.

I remember back in the late 80s and early 90s that bubblebacks were selling for $4k to $5k. Same watches are selling for significantly less now.

But that's ok, more watches for those of us who like smaller cased watches 😀