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Old 7 November 2024, 09:02 AM   #1
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4220 "SPEEDKING" Gilt

I have at least eight of these. All my others are printed. This is my only gilt. Look at that gilt minute track!!!!





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Old 7 November 2024, 11:19 AM   #2
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That thing has seen some use over the decades.


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Old 7 November 2024, 12:02 PM   #3
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I can see that Speedkings could be very fun to collect. Out of curiosity, are they all manual, or are there any Speedking Perpetuals?
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Old 7 November 2024, 12:26 PM   #4
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I can see that Speedkings could be very fun to collect. Out of curiosity, are they all manual, or are there any Speedking Perpetuals?
All manual. But very fun!
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Old 7 November 2024, 12:53 PM   #5
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I can see that Speedkings could be very fun to collect. Out of curiosity, are they all manual, or are there any Speedking Perpetuals?
Here are some of my humble collection.
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Old 8 November 2024, 05:25 AM   #6
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Here are some of my humble collection.

My god, those are very awesome. I don’t see that many Rolex watches pre-1950/60s.

Some of those models looks familiar….may be the exact model(s) Steve McQueen wore in “The Great Escape” (love that movie by the way)


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Old 8 November 2024, 05:27 AM   #7
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If that watch could talk, the stories it would tell would be very interesting I am sure.
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Old 8 November 2024, 06:58 AM   #8
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My god, those are very awesome. I don’t see that many Rolex watches pre-1950/60s.

Some of those models looks familiar….may be the exact model(s) Steve McQueen wore in “The Great Escape” (love that movie by the way)


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All but two have been fully serviced for another 80 years of use by the next generation.
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Old 16 November 2024, 08:54 PM   #9
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Handsome Haul of Malcolm Campbell's (world speed record holder land and sea) as they sometimes get called here in uk .

Also a watch that many WW2 Prisoners of War chose as a gift from Wilsdorf while in incarceration in say Colditz POW camp (hand back into the NAAFI (stores) on their homecoming) or they could keep and pay it off interest free over ten years !

Love a collection of out of the ordinary pieces. Especially keeping pre-52 swiss made stuff alive
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