Steve McQueen’s Rolex, Ref. 5512

[ShawnBeever]

Steve McQueen's 5512 , don't get to excited about the low estimate though it will no doubt go for a lot more.

http://www.antiquorum.com/eng/press/2009/2...y09auction.html

[mcdj]

nice, but it looks like a brand new RSC dial/hands. if so, what a travesty. OTOH, it looks like some genuine McQueen cheese around the bezel! someday you could clone him from those bits!

[Virgil Hilts]

Tragic. Here's my 5512. I still have the original bezel insert, but it's a little fragile, so I put the replacement insert on it. It's a 1961. The original gilt dial is long gone, but the replacement is from the late 60's, I'm guessing.

nice, but it looks like a brand new RSC dial/hands. if so, what a travesty. OTOH, it looks like some genuine McQueen cheese around the bezel! someday you could clone him from those bits!

[ShawnBeever]

While it would be nice if it had the original dial, I don’t think it will have much of an effect on the value.

I know I would be well pleased to own it and would not worry about the dial, unfortunately it will be brought and put in a safe somewhere never to see the light of day again.

[simmons3d]

I read the McQueen biography a while back and thought he had given the watch to his son just before he died... Maybe it was a different watch - although in all the photos of him later in life he is wearing a 5512. It's been almost 30 years, I would want some form of documentation if I was forking over the cash for that one.