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Old 25 February 2007, 07:28 PM   #7
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Tiffany lost their Rolex Authorized Dealer status because they kept on double branding their watches after Rolex suggested they stop doing it.
Not strictly true now in the early days of Rolex only about 1 in 5 had the name Rolex on the Dial,the rest were blank dials when they left the factory.So the various retailers could put there own name on dial.But after the arrival of the oyster case most of the oyster cased ones did have the name Rolex on the dial,but still only a few companies were still allowed,to put there names on the dial like Cartier,Goldsmiths,Asprey, Bucherer plus a few more.Tiffany was the final store retailers name to ever to be seen on a Rolex dial, and now any genuine Tiffany named Rolex can command very high prices indeed.

Today the only current company for whom Rolex will "co-brand" a watch is COMEX; an acronym made up of the letters from the company's full name COmpagnie Maritime d'EXpertise. COMEX as everyone now knows are the world's leaders in the provision of diving services to exploration companies all over the world.Now every diver who works for Comex is issued with one and to prevent the watches from being misplaced Rolex print the name of the company on the dial of every watch. COMEX themselves also engrave the rear of the watch with their name and a unique serial number to the Comex company.

These watches now have become incredibly collectible because they are the only Rolex watch still being produced with another name on the dial.It is somewhat ironic that after almost 90 years of some different retailers' names on many Rolex dials. The only one left is a company who do did not ever sell watches,and thats Comex.Now the rarest watch might be the Tiffany and Co or Cartier dialled 16520 Daytona from the late 80s early 90s.Its funny how something other than the Rolex name, makes it very very expensive and desirable to collectors,but for every genuine one, there are quite a few fakes.Now there was a few black dialled S, N, T and W serial Daytona's Tiffany and Co, or Cartier dialled 16520 . Which had a manufacturing defect the colour of the sub-dials faded to brown or like a chocolate colour.Very similar to the defect from the late 80s early 90s that turned the TT Blue Sub dial more of a purple blue colour.
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