Posts Tagged ‘Double Red’
Mark 4 1665 Rolex ‘Double Red’ Sea-Dweller
The only way I can describe a Double Red Sea-Dweller is like a Single Red Sub that goes to 11. It’s just more of everything. Neither you nor I will ever have use for a helium escape valve. But this has something else because of it: an honesty. It’s serious about its job, in the…
Read MoreMk4 ‘Double Red’ 1665 Rolex Sea-Dweller
I’m not going saturation diving this weekend, you likely are not either. And yet, I slightly like knowing that I could if I wanted to. This, I know, is absurd—a bit like wearing a snorkel all year just because you might go the Bahamas in March. But if going for drinks while wearing 1665 is…
Read More1665 DRSD with a Brilliant Tropical Dial
The simple shift of tone from black to brown is enough to do strange things to my soul. This early Sea-Dweller was born of necessity for saturation diving work in collaboration with Comex. The reference see before you dates to the very start of that collaboration (patent pending backs predate it, a fact often confused).…
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