Here is a survivor from 1971. I won it in a Rolex sales contest. The watch was shipped to me by Rolex in its presentation box and price tag still attached. Care to guess what the price of a Rolex Air-King Date was in 1971? ................................. $215.00! I wore this one off and on until 1979, but I had many other watches, so this one had to take its turn. At the time I stopped wearing it regularly, our son was eight years old. I had been keeping him in recycled watches, but he kept breaking them. So I adjusted the bracelet on this one to fit him, and I let him wear it as I thought it would be durable enough! Big mistake! Within a year I had replaced the rotor post, crystal, stem, crown, gasket, and cleaned it. PLUS he destroyed the original bracelet! I took it back, and he went back to wearing junkers. Sadly, the bracelet is after market. It is still a good runner and excellent timekeeper, in spite of the fact it is nearly 45 years old.
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