This is one of the dreams of a Rolex collector or diving watch collector, regretably completely out of reach now for most of us. Photographs are superb as always and the additional comments and information from Bill adds a lot of enjoyment to this post. T

To add some historical and technical context, here are a few additional points that might interest the community, especially those following the evolution of the 16660 COMEX models during the Hydra missions : Technical & Historical Notes (with credit to M

If we can consider the Rolex Sea Dweller 16660 Comex as a special watch, this one adds something extraordinary special... Here are the informations given to me by the owner of this watch: The 16660 Comex was made from 1981 to 1985 (200 issued). * This mod

Here is a cousin the Pre Comex 5513.

Here is one posted back in 2012 16660 comex and Rolex 16660 - the triple 6

The colour of the hands and hour markers are just such a beautiful colour and the slightly worn but faded bezel insert really adds to its beauty even the Comex on the dial adds so much history to it. But I have no idea what the Hydra V alludes to or means

Omega spared no expense in selecting Uranus steel for the Ploprof's monobloc case—a high-resistance material first used by COMEX in the construction of their deep-sea vessels. Decades later, Rolex adopted the same steel for its own professional-grade watc

I believe this error was with the original run where the casemaker assumed the crown position to be at 3 when in actual fact the Ploprof crown is at 9.

I´m very fond of themes related with history of diving, both scuba and hard hat since I was very very young around 1958 and have read a lot of books and magazine articles about that themes so I learned about the formation of the early military "frogmen" i

Ploprof Comex ( engraved on the side case ). 1969, Omega Museum.