Sea-Dweller 50th Anniversary

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Good looking watch and wear in good health and success always.
The new version pays homage to the original single red sea dweller which is one of the holy grails of vintage Rolex models.

For those entirely unfamiliar with this holy grail of vintage Rolex collecting, here is a brief overview of what exactly makes the Rolex Single Red Sea-Dweller so special, and why collectors are willing to pay crazy prices for them whenever they manage to surface at auction.

For starters, there are only about a dozen Single Red Sea Dweller watches known to still be in existence today. While both the Red Submariner and Double Red Sea-Dweller were simply the very first iterations of their respective references and were each produced for numerous years, the Single Red Sea-Dweller was really more of a prototype, and was never formally released to the public or sold through authorized retailers.

Instead, all twelve known examples were given to hand-selected divers for either official testing purposes or as awards. Of those twelve watches, at least one has had its dial replaced due to damage, so at the present time of writing, there are only eleven known examples of Single Red Sea-Dwellers still in existence today.
One of the things that sets both the “Double Red” and “Single Red” Sea-Dwellers apart from other Sea-Dweller references, is that they both have the “Submariner” and the “Sea-Dweller” names printed on them. While it is only the “Sea-Dweller” name that appears in red text on the dial of the Single Red Sea-Dweller (hence its nickname), the dial differences are more than just a matter of the color of the text.

Instead of reading “Submariner 2000” like on the Double Red Sea-Dweller, the second line of text (printed in white letters) on the Single Red Sea-Dweller reads “Submariner 500 M – 1650 FT” because its production pre-dated the final design of the reference 1665 Sea-Dweller, which would benefit from an increased depth rating. In addition to the difference in depth rating values and the additional line of text, the order of the units for the depth rating itself changed too, making the small handful of Single Red Sea-Dwellers the only “meters first” Sea-Dweller watches ever produced by Rolex.

In a 2018 auction at Phillips a single red sea dweller sold for $776,000 USD

Source: https://www.bobswatches.com/rolex-blog/resources/rolex-single-red-sea-dweller-special.html
Source: https://www.phillips.com/detail/rolex/CH080218/174

wiem0014

Congrats it looks great on you! I picked mine up back in September and have been loving it. Enjoy!

larrylush

enjoy it. don't buy a protection plan

whitewolf777

It is a beautiful watch. I love mine. Congratulations

maximus123

Coungratulations!
Here is my mk1