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worn daily and only recently stoped working, service cost was $1700. The owner is member of our community told me a story about his Explorer , he went with it to the room with MIR machine, the watch got tosted, it started running 1 hour slow just in a cou

Quite underrated because of its modest size, but was nicely surprised to see quite a few of this model here!

I realize you changed the case to 1008. Did you keep the original case. I am curious to know the serial range to get a feel for the year. Or the caseback that would have a date stamp. Seems it could be between 1963 and 1964. Previous model seen was 1964 w

A cougar on my wrist. Sexy for its age. Lol. 😆 Cheers. 🍻 Geross.

I am laughing... I have worn a Rolex since the ripe old age of 13, since way back in 1968. It is an Air-King - 5500. A tool watch if there ever was one. I would guess a fair number of folks on this forum didn't even know what a Rolex was in 1968. Was I a

Rolex had an ad regarding their Oysters being the only watch that could survive coal mining. The jack hammer machines and dust killed most all of the other watches. And I’ll add that I have personally tortured my 5500 Air King since 1968 without a single

The Air King, Ref 5500: The 1018: The 6564: And in a more modern category, the great Explorer II Ref 16570. Yes, good call, my friend, good call! Un abrazo, Nicolas

What they forget is that there are damn near infinite variations in all those references! I now have the 214270 "Mark II", 114270, and a "frog-foot" matte dial 1016. That only leaves...let's see... 6098 6298 non-3-6-9 white dial 6298 non-3-6-9 black dial

The Rolex Air King 116 900 is not a strange watch, it is a strange Rolex. When it was unveiled, at the 2016 Basel Fair, it generated some strong comments: " The dial is too messy " was one of the comments we could most often read. It is not every day you

Something lie that, for example: Ref 14000. Credit picture Jacek. From the 2000's. 34 mm but they wear much bigger. Or Ref 5500, from the 60's or 70's. Ref picture unknown... Best, Nicolas