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One of the Rarest, Early Rolex Submariners Is Heading to Auction This Weekend – Robb Report
Ref. 6536/1 features a detail rarely seen on Submariners: a depth rating in red script without unit measures.
Even a watch as beloved and well-known as the Rolex Submariner didn’t have all the details nailed down from the start. For proof of this, all you need to do is take a look at an early example of the timepiece that’ll hit the auction block this weekend.
The Sub in question, a Ref. 6536/1, dates back to 1955 and will be offered as part of Phillips’s Geneva Watch Auction XVIII this weekend. Although the watch isn’t radically different from the diver that’s become a fixture of so many watch collections,…
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