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I saw a really nice Rolex 5513 from the early 70s at a Tourneau in Waikiki. It was around $5,500. It's a classic design and its value will increase every year. If you choose to, you can wear it 5 years and get all your money back, plus some.

Hike, that was an awesome effort. I'm proud of you. In Alaska you "go big, or go home". You went big. Great job.

It's actually snowing as I write this.

Wearing this old-timer today.

Here's another as I was digging my wife's car out from under the snowdrift in the background. It's harder than it looks, first you find the front bumper with a 2x2 so you don't hit the bodywork with a shovel! Not good.

I vote "gen" too.

Prices for these vintages have been soft for the last couple years. The garden variety SUB 300Ts have been going for $1k ish and a little more. It's when you get into the rare pieces that prices are still strong. Example: the Doxa Army that sold a few weeks back for $3k. And the SUB 300 Pro that went for $2k. The last Black Lung SUB 300 was over $4k. So it's an absolute kick in the cajones that this SILVER SHARK went for $910. Un-fricken-believable. Someone stole that thing. edit: you want to lose some serious sleep? Search for completed listings, Doxa Sharkhunter. Someone put their Silver Shark up on Buy-It-Now for $399. Good working condition, complete watch. Guess how long that auction lasted?

That's it, come in here and mention a 1665 and don't even post a picture?! C'mon buddy ... throw a 'Dweller lover a bone. Let's see this beauty!

Thanks Woof, that's very kind. And no, it WON'T get you a free month VIP with access to *that* subforum. If any good pics come out of my camera, I'm telling you it's pure random dumb luck.

Not me, I'm focused on the SUB 300s with the big gorgeous domes. If it didn't come home to RWG we can take solace in the fact the minutes hand was a recent replacement and didn't quiiiiiiite match. Yeahright ..... like that matters on a Silver Shark.

Yuki sells a spring loaded 7206 too. I bought one and the endlinks were terrible and it caught my wrist hair all the time, so into the drawer it went. I bought a Yuki un-sprung 7206 rivet for my 6536/1 and it was way too tight on me too. So I unfolded the middle sections of 2 links on the springy 7206 and cobbled them into my un-sprung 7206. Result: perfect fit, no wrist hair biting and the 2 spring links (one on each side of the clasp) give a little when I need the band to stretch. The perfect solution.

Straight swap for another stock apple iPhone 4 lens, Red. I undid the 2 little cross-head screws at the bottom, slid the back off, popped out the old/nasty and popped in the new/hotness. Easy squeasy, 5 minutes including the time it took to scrounge up a teeny screwdriver. One more! I can't get enough of this. Check out the tiny text reflection in the 10:00 lug and on the insert.

And now with a simple crop and saturation tweak.

I just can't get over the picture quality. This is straight from the camera with no processing.

Simpler than that, I just swapped dials, my "radial" dial for a tropical gilt dial.

Red, this is a stock iPhone 4. My lens was all scratched up and I found out it was simple to replace it. So I did! Here's a low-light family shot I just took as the snow was falling. Pretty nice.

And it's extremely rare. A handful are known to exist. All other Sharkhunters came with a black dial. Look at that price! Aaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhh!! MUST..NOT..BUY..ANOTHER..DOXA!!

Thanks Freddy, that's 49 years of patina earned the hard way. Amazingly, it's entirely complete and original except for the gilt dial and aftermarket band. Red, I just replaced the stock lens on the iPhone. Cost me $2.74 and took 5 minutes to swap it out. I wish I knew it was that easy a year ago! *facepalm*

I put a new lens on my iPhone, and I like the results.

Also out there with FIFTEEN HOURS TO GO is a very, very rare "Silver Shark". It's a SUB 300T Sharkhunter with the silver dial. Take a look: http://www.ebay.com/itm/DOXA-SUB-300T-SHARKHUNTER-US-DIVERS-CO-AQUALUNG-SILVER-NYMPH-AUTOMATIC-/150811335875

Fixed it.... try again?

Here's an old topic I did... http://www.rwg.cc/topic/2261-tropic-39s-comparison/

Yobokies it is. AR'd sapphire, bead blasted, new dial/hands. I gave it to my son and it refuses to die. http://www.pmwf.com/Phorum/read.php?10,91303,91303

Talk to Harold. He'll fix you up.

Drat! Missed it by that much.