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Rolex. A stainless steel automatic wristwatch with sweep centre seconds, date, gas escape valve and bracelet
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Rolex. A stainless steel automatic wristwatch with sweep centre seconds, date, gas escape valve and bracelet

SIGNED ROLEX, OYSTER PERPETUAL DATE, SEA-DWELLER, 2000 FT=610 M, REF. 1665, CASE NO. 5'486'634, CIRCA 1977

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Rolex. A stainless steel automatic wristwatch with sweep centre seconds, date, gas escape valve and bracelet
Signed Rolex, Oyster Perpetual Date, Sea-Dweller, 2000 ft=610 m, ref. 1665, case no. 5'486'634, circa 1977
Cal. 1570 automatic movement, 26 jewels, black matte dial, luminous dot, baton and dagger numerals, luminous Mercedes hands, sweep centre seconds, outer minute divisions, window for date, tonneau-shaped water-resistant-type case, revolving black bezel calibrated for 60 units, gas escape valve in the band, screw back engraved "Rolex Patent Oyster Gas Escape Valve", screw down crown, stainless steel Rolex Oyster bracelet, deployant clasp, case, dial and movement signed
39.5 mm. diam.; overall length approx. 175 mm.

Specialist note

Launched in 1967, the Sea-Dweller reference 1665 was the first Rolex wristwatch designed for use in saturation diving. It featured a Rolex patent valve in the band, first developed on the Submariner model, to allow helium and other gases to escape.

This Sea-Dweller model is nick-named "Great White" by collectors, due to the all white printing of the dial, the present example from the Mark 1 series.