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....yes, turned a bag in for $140 last week.

Yes, but I got a good start with my son giving me $500 in pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.

Yes

The very earliest link examples of the ref. 6542 feature the words "GMT-Master" written in pink and are rare, with at link least one example known to feature the depth rating of "50m = 165ft" on the dial in red above the pink GMT-Master text. Very early examples might also have a long-neck Mercedes hour hand similar to link the Submariner reference 6200, which was also from that period.

Nowadays a decent 1016 costs roughly the same as a used Toyota Corolla I'll take link the link bus with an Explorer on my wrist thanks but the premise of John's article is still true you don't have to walk around with a compact car on your wrist to get link into vintage Rolex.