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I bought a used rolex explorer 2  may years ago from the exchange and mart for 25 pounds (at the time i lived in Derby and drove to Leeds as soon as i saw the advert. a bargain at 25 pounds but i am sure that people who remember the exchange and mart will know it was a long while ago. about 35 years from memory.

about 6 years ago, now living in spain, i saw an advert in a local paper wanting to buy used watches ie rolex, omega etc.  the buyer was offering €4000 for explorer 2 with orange hands. (aparantely this particular model was worn by steve mcqueen and became known as the steve mcqueen model)

i thought if a dealer is offering that without even seeing it, it is obviously worth more.  so i advertised the watch on ebay.

it sold for € 9500.  (at the time euro / pounds was about the same; as it is now.) the buyer caught a flight the same day from malaga to valencia to collect the watch.  not a bad investment!

i sold the watch then bought a submariner for € 2900.  i was in a jewellers recently and was offered € 5000 for the watch by the jeweller.

i didnt sell it. not really  in need of the money these day but just goes to show the right watch is a very good investment.

i share the time now with my rolex submariner and samsung frontier s3

i think there must be some issues with Rams tv.

i was watching today in Spain.  (which is a permitted area)

i tried with first of all my usual home internet service. (a local wifi provider)

i got the message that i was in an unauthorised area even on the preview show.

i then tried with my  vodofone.ES  wifi dongle.  same result.

i eventually connected using my movistar.es  4g router and all worked ok for the whole of the game.

at half time i tried going back to the other two isp s   with no luck