Flutterby™! : wartime Rolex 2008-08-01 16:42:45.6038+02

wartime Rolex

2008-08-01 16:42:45.6038+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

The story of a Rolex Oyster Chronograph that's currently up for sale with "included exceptional documentation". Apparently in 1943, Rolex, surrounded by Axis countries and with a tremendously diminished market, started betting on an Allied victory by selling watches to POWs in German camps at exceptionally low prices, with the additional note that "...but you must not even think of settlement during the war."

This watch comes with the notebooks, notes and clippings of Clive Nutting, prisoner in, among other camps, Stalag Luft III, and part of "The Great Escape".

From Mefi.

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