Saturday, January 29, 2011

Rolex Lumi Red Submariner 1680 (SOLD)



This is the end result of a Red Sub restoration project. I bought a beat up Red Sub (3.6 million serial) with severely damaged dial and thought it would be a 'fun' project in that the lumi red replacement dial was quite a novelty then and had only been recently 'discovered'. The process entailed sending the watch to Rolex in Geneva at great cost and risk for the restoration. The service invoice reflects that they exchanged my damaged red dial for the new one. This wasn't one of my sounder financial acquisitions but I like the novelty factor.