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| GJ |
Two very rare birds..."U.S. Marine Prototype" Rolex, Oyster Perpetual Date, U.S. Marine, Superlative Chronometer, Officially Certified, Ref. 1690, movement No. 024510. Prototype made in two examples in 1982, for the US. Marines, production was never undertaken. Exceptionally rare and very fine, asymmetrical, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel military wristwatch with U.S. Marine logo in red, and a stainless steel extendable Oyster bracelet.Three-body, massive, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, 12-hour graduated revolving steel bezel, protected by the hooded lugs, "Triplock" winding-crown at 4 o’clock protected by a "Crown Guard", domed crystal, elongated lugs with detachable hoods, the screw-down back engraved "U.S. Marine", and twice engraved with the Rolex crown. Black with tritium-coated round and triangular indexes outer red Arabic five minutes, aperture for the date, "U.S. Marine" in red writing. Tritium-coated steel "Skeleton" hands.M. Cal. 1570, rhodium-plated, "oeil-deperdrix" decoration, 26 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance-spring, Microstella regulating screws. Dial, case and movement signed.Dim. 58 X 44 mm. 
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| uncle aj |
Now that would make a nice Christmas present. 
Not too sure about the ends of the bracelet where it butts up against the lugs, looks kind of ugly. 
Still, if anyone would like to give me one, I'd be very gracious.
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| Jimbits76 |
I like it but the bracelet extension looks a little odd.
Perhaps they wanted more to differentiate it from the sub. J |
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| Brushpup |
Yup. They look like the EL's on the Deep Sea Special. Strange........
Seen this on three forums now, interesting no doubt. |
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| Tools |
Interesting piece due to it's uniqueness...
I have to say, the design is not attractive to me as a wearer.............. |
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| GJ |
Just received a short email from Jake.
http://rolexblog.blogspot.com/200...re-rolex-us-marine-prototype.html |
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| Tools |
It's fascinating when you delve into the history of Rolex..
They were always interesting in improvement or innovation, a far distance from the constant accusations by those who crank out the same thing year after year with only a new paint-job.. |
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| SLS |
Interesting pieces. What has always amazed me, is how good the red font looks on the Sub's dial, I wish Rolex would go back to using this.
Scott |
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| East Bay Rider |
I think it's interesting how the winding crown is at 4:00 rather than at 3:00. I imagine this helps to keep it from digging into the wearers wrist. | ||
| Brushpup |
Thought the same thing a million times. If they did, they could not hope to make enough of them. Why they don't is beyond comprehension. |
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| Brushpup |
This is one of the things I love about Jakes articles. His goal is getting the history and the truth. If you haven't heard the podcasts you are missing out on a lot of interesting stuff. |
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| Lion |
The two prototypes look very interesting and agree that Rolex should go back to printing the dial with red ink!!! |