16610LV & 126600 50th Anniversary Duo

[jay_kay]

Thought I'd share my newest acquisition with you all, a mid 2004 F5..... serial Rolex 16610LV Anniversary Submariner. I had one of these a few years ago, a D serial but as you do you flip and change. Bit of a mistake on my part.

This F serial is a complete set in the old style box with the moss covered stone card outer, it even has the anchor too (which I believe stopped being give when they started using the newer ripple top boxes). I have an original catalogue from October 2004 with price list and back then new this watch would have been £2650!! Wish thats what I'd just paid for this one!

I've photographed it next to my 50th Anniversary Sea-Dweller the 126600 as I think they make a very nice pairing of 50th Anniversary Rolex.

Now I never see watches as investment pieces, I buy them if I like the look of them and if I don't like them after wearing for a while I sell them on, if I get my money back thats always a bonus, I generally don't though. Over the past few months I have bought quite a few watches that although I wouldn't call investment pieces, more premium bonds. I would hope that in the future if I had to sell them to release money that again I would fairly easily get my money back, always a bonus if the market shifts the right way though and I end up making a bit.

These though for me shouldn't be going anywhere, both keepers. The 126600 is a 2017 watch that I bought with the intension of putting away for my son who was born in 2017 and giving it him in the future as a birth year watch to do with what he likes. (Whether it'll still be unworn by then is another matter.)

Here are a couple of quick snaps.