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https://www.ebay.com/itm/-/221920434323?nordt=true&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l10137

 

Supposedly a 5513 with a 'prototype' sidewinder clasp.

My guess is it was a project watch that got removed from eBay because of complaints.

It disappeared saying  "This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available."  a few days after it was posted.

 

The listing is a few years old and the link may be dead...if it comes up showing something else, scroll down or click on 'listing' in the highlighted banner at the top.

 

I've mentioned this clasp before but would like to see what others have to say about it...did they make some or not?  I never saw one except under suspicious circumstances.  I have a similar clasp (Paul/Abay!) and thought about putting it on a later bracelet and making a 5513/5514 type project watch with HE valve.  Since the 5514 was made in the early 1970s it would need a later oyster bracelet, not a rivet type.

 

Some 5514 info:

 

http://www.drsd.com/watch-info/comex/comex-5514.html

 

They show one with a folded oyster so maybe some had them...or it is what they had handy at the time.

   

 

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"I'd believe Rolex made it."

 

I saw a 5514 on a genuine watch forum a few years back with a sidewinder clasp on it but can not find it now. 

 

The clasp I have looks much like the one in the picture except it has 4 holes toward the open end of the clasp, a small space, then three more holes where the one in the picture has 8 holes in a row.  Mine has the 'bracelet keeper' notches between the first and second holes like the one pictured.  It has a stamped sheet metal dive extension like came on earlier replica 16610 etc and hollow mid links with dead end screw holes...no hole on the side opposite the screw head.

 

There are two pictured on here, six rows down:

 

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=rolex+5514+with+prototype+clasp&qpvt=rolex+5514+with+prototype+clasp&FORM=IGRE

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