Live from Christies...

Just received a mail from Philipp... who is in Geneva right now at Christies. In the preview for the Monday auction. The original DeepSea... next to his SingleRed Deepsea Jacques Piccard, which will be for auction for charity on Monday...

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One of the rarest....

Today we do some Omega.... and as my friend seems to say these days... 'Omega is the way forward' LOOL! But really it's a ultra rare watch. One out of about 10 issued. Of which only 4 are known till today. One of them is in the Omega museum... and the rest are in hands of collectors. Like this one. The PloProf Comex. At the end of the 70th 3 Comex divers spend eight days at 250 m during operation Janus. Equipped with those PloProfs. Unfortunately because of it's high price Comex opted for the Rolex watches. Lucky for us ;-)

The watch has a special engraving on the back. And looks ultra cool. Part of Comex history!

Ultracool.....

Well i have the great privilege to be able to play with this one today. A fantastic 1665 Comex, 2nd series.... directly from the original diver. And what a sexy beast it is in front of the camera. Check the dial. See the 2000ft=600m ? Only on Comex my friends. You only see this dial on Comex watches. All the red and white 1665 have 610mtr (except the earliest ones of course). This one has a great case and perfect dial. The engraving is magical. 2nd series means, it's within the 1665 isuue-numbers above 2100. 2000-2100 is first series. And super rare. The 600 dial was only made for Comex. There are also 610 mtr Comex dials, but they where only used in the last batch or as replacement dial for damaged 600 dials later on. A lot of the great missions from Comex history and world rekord dives where archived with those watches. Often only handed over for special deep mission at the beginning. Good to know, that these watches started to see action in the late 70th. When the DRSD was developed long before that. Till then Comex mainly used 5513/5514 watches with valve. So i guess they took no chance for a product which did not proof it's quality for sure.

Here are also some images of divers ...

I love vintage Panerai !!

Next to vintage Rolex the vintage Panerai watches are the real treasures for me. Hope to ever be able to get one... but he... i am lucky to have some friends who are passionate about them also. So i have the privilege to be able to touch and feel them once in a while. And they are so ultra cool and rare! They share a great history and i always think of the time they where used... when you read one of the books from Ralf Ehlers and Volker Wiegman you know what i mean.

Last week got a mail from a real nice and great Italian collector... with some great images to share here on my blog! Big thanks for that... love it!

The watch is Radiomir Panerai with a fascinating discoulored dial. It has also a nice Hermes matching colour strap.
Ref.6152-1 manufactured in 1954 cal 618 15'''3/4. Thanks Auro for sharing.

A very special piece of metal...

At the Milsub meeting there was one special piece of metal among the watches. A little plate.. but ohhh so special.

It is a small plate, which was handed over when a diver took a Panerai for the missions. Never seen one before.

Maybe someone else of the Paneristi knows more about them...?

Chester 8.00... a real nice place...

Well the meeting was held in a real nice city! Loved it.. at 7.45 in the morning!

Milsub Heaven !... the biggest collection ever...

Last weekend i had the great privledge to join a small group of collectors, who are madly in love with the Milsub. And we where able to join forces and build up the biggest collection of Milsubs together in one room. What a sight... what a weekend! So much passion shared.... in name of the Queen and country.

All references where there... 5513, 5517, 5517 Maxidial and 5513/5517's.