Mellemkasse nr. 1665. Bagkasse nr. 1665. Værk nr. D054248. Serienummer 3071973. Endeled nr. 593. Lænke nr. 93150. Foldespænde nr. 93150.

Ekstra foldespænde (ref. 93150) samt servicebevis fra autoriseret forhandler Klarlund 2022 medfølger.

Few Rolex watches are as historically important as the Sea-Dweller reference 1665. This model was launched by Rolex in 1967 and created in close collaboration with the French diving company COMEX. The Sea-Dweller was strictly meant for professional saturation divers. Hence, it had to be able to go deeper than the Submariner, which at the time was able to go to 200m. This is where the helium escape valve comes in. Placed on the left side of the case, this valve was integrated into the watch to prevent the crystal from popping out when the diver was back in the decompression chamber.

This particular timepiece, the so-called Double Red Sea-Dweller, was the first commercially available iteration of this model. It features the desirable “mark II” dial which has transformed from black to an almost tobacco brown shade over time. More interestingly, however, is the fact that the watch comes from the original owner. This man, a Dane in his 70’s, has been working his whole life in saturation diving and on-board U-boats all around the world. He bought the watch in Klarlund, Copenhagen in 1975, as he needed a watch that could withstand the daily pressures from his professional life. One of the most noteworthy and publicly known projects that he has worked on is the nation-wide famous U-boat “Springeren”, which can be visited in the Maritime Museum of Aalborg, Denmark. Here, he was part of a crew of 33 men who lived in the cramped U-boat for up to several weeks at a time. His spare time was usually filled with scuba diving and yacht racing. All the time his trusty companion, this Double Red Sea-Dweller, could be found fitted to his left wrist.