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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 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 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