Wind or... uh, FS! SEALAB Sub...

[BrandonS]

Bob Barth's 1964 5512.
For a cool $150,000

I think he'll get the asking price. Cool history.

[FuzzyB]

It's a little rough, but nothing a good servicing couldn't fix.

Cool watch, but I can't help but wonder about the value some people place on these vintage Rolex's. Maybe it's just a symptom of the skinny wallet syndrome I suffer from that prevents such comprehension.

[TylerEOT]

There are some rare subs that go for that kinda coin without just about the best provenance a Rolex Sub could have.

[Watch Carefully]

I'd love to know the details and amounts of the transactions that took it from Mr. Barth's possession to where it is now. Someone has already made a boatload on it in the past few years, I suspect.

Does Rolex have a museum? This seems to be the sort of thing Omega would buy for their museum, had it been their product.

[Watch Carefully]

I guess for you diver chappies, that ranks up there with Buzz Aldrin's Speedmaster and Edmund Hillary's Smiths, eh?

[Henry Krinkle]

...
Cool watch, but I can't help but wonder about the value some people place on these vintage Rolex's. Maybe it's just a symptom of the skinny wallet syndrome I suffer from that prevents such comprehension.

Well that...or common sense.

I don't think any painting is worth multi-millions either. I laughed when Steve Wynn poked a hole in his $131 M dollar Picasso. I laughed hard.

[Alan From New York]

After I bought Atlantis, I was looking for a watch to go with it.

[dukerules]

a new bezel insert, and some replacement hands.



Kidding.

[BrandonS]

Yeah, and you'd think they would have polished it up & stuff

[JunMel]

Put a fart valve and leave the crystal construction the same. And cross fingers that the original Sub with a popped out crystal will someday sell for 150 grand.

I am designing a transformable (registered design) watch today. Would I follow Rolex's afterthinking? Does it mean I can't design a deep dive watch without incorporating an afterthought fart valve?

So, I can never design a dive watch that can restrain helium outside and has a crystal that cannot pop out. What a sad world we live in