freddy333

Thanks for the link.

Ditto. An amplitude below 260 may be due to insufficient charge of the mainspring or a dirty movement, but 200-ish may indicate a problem with the balance/hairspring.

Wore the old Sub today

Sorry, I did not read this until today, but happy (belated) birthday

I have cleaned a number of gloss dials with (clean) rodico & never left the slightest mark (& I am neurotic about those things). But can you give me some details on that optical cleaning solution?

Well, I did say $500+. That is the '+' I was talking about. All kidding aside, it is alot of cash, but, in the context of vintage Rolex, quite reasonable since I paid more than $500 for my pre-owned 5513 dial.

All this 7016 talk reminded me of this thread, which I think you all might enjoy perusing (even if you read it the 1st time).

Hard to say whether the bezel is gen (this is a case of buy the seller before you buy the part), but the insert is either gen or an extraordinarily good fake.

I think you need a better crown (yours looks too wide), but, otherwise, looks very good.

Without an (original) sales invoice from Rolex (the 1 in Switzerland) or something (verifiably) similar, complete NOS (new old stock) kits like this should always be considered highly suspicious. Unless, of course, you are willing to get duped.

On some cases, a knife blade may not fit in between the ring & case, but a razor blade in a window scraper will. In some cases, I have spent 20 minutes working a window scraper blade around a ring before I was able to create enough space to move up to a knife blade. You just have to be patient & work carefully &, eventually, it will come off.

Exactly. These parts, as has been said many times, look exactly like the parts Rolex currently fits during service.

Your dates are correct, but I am afraid your dial is probably not. It looks aftermarket to me. Here is a gen from the end of the series (late 1960s) for comparison

It has been listed on ebay for some time without takers. Looks aftermarket to me.

You can try some clean Rodico, but if that does not work, I would return the dial.

I really want to love this, but it looks odd. I hate to say this, but the dial looks like a repaint, the GMT hand tip looks weird & the bezel is wrong for a '42.

$500+

It may simply need the effective length of its hairspring adjusted (simple adjustment for any professional watchmaker), but all mechanical watches require overhaul (disassembly, cleaning & oiling) every 5-7 years to maintain good, consistent time.

The 5514 (made/offered only to Comex & never offered to the public &/or for retail sale) was designed for saturation divers, who required a valve in their watch to allow trapped helium to escape while in decompression chambers.

Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall amps, dies at 88

They looks alot like Ubi's & my pre-Comexes (mine below) Antiquorum

The caseback number is a Comex specific number, which is separate/unrelated to the Rolex serial number. I have never seen any verifiable documentation describing Comex's numbering system (& with the ongoing debates over what Comex actually received from Rolex, this should all be taken with a grain of salt), but my guess is that the initial (test) pre-Comex Subs (circa 1970-ish) would probably have had 2-digit caseback numbers, while all later deliveries would have 3 digits.

Way ahead of you (from 2 years ago)

Exactly like gen lume after 40+ years.