Who said I could afford them?It's easy for me to say that I'm not a huge Rolex fan (because I can't afford them), but if I were to buy one, it'd be a Milgauss! They're weird in a cool way and Ithat green sapphire crystal!
. Cost me 700 quid.
The great white was the successor to the double red. The DR is the one most valued by collectors, behind the COMEX versions of course. I would guess that yours might have a value of between Ā£12,000 - Ā£15,000? I might be out either way by a couple of thousand. I can find out if you want, or you might just browse the internet for recently sold prices. The fact you are the original owner (hopefully with box and papers), would make a difference.Iāve owned this since 1982 when I bought it in Germany at the end of a tour with a lump sum payout of LOA
A chocolate fish goes to the first to decode my lingo (including my prize offer)
Apparently itās a āgreat whiteā according to some experts but Iām not one
Not a common sea dweller model Iām told.
Anyone here have a clue as to value?
Iāve owned this since 1982 when I bought it in Germany at the end of a tour with a lump sum payout of LOA
A chocolate fish goes to the first to decode my lingo (including my prize offer)
Apparently itās a āgreat whiteā according to some experts but Iām not one
Not a common sea dweller model Iām told.
Anyone here have a clue as to value?
On Watchfinder UK just now.A "Great White" Sea Dweller 1665 (as referred to due the large 12 o'clock indices) currently is valued between $24-$38K USD depending on condition, whether it comes with original box, papers, hang tag, etc.. I am a watch collector and general horology nerd.
Great watch! You should sell it to me for 900 quid!
Youāre closeThe great white was the successor to the double red. The DR is the one most valued by collectors, behind the COMEX versions of course. I would guess that yours might have a value of between Ā£12,000 - Ā£15,000? I might be out either way by a couple of thousand. I can find out if you want, or you might just browse the internet for recently sold prices. The fact you are the original owner (hopefully with box and papers), would make a difference.
Still trying to work out what I need to guess in order to win that Chocolate fish
PS. Were you a sat diver at that time?
On a serious note. Did that work?
surprisingly yes. options on amazon for all the main platforms. Milwaukee, DeWalt etc
you'll have to explain what that is!
Wow such a great piece of kit! Awesome to have an amazing story behind it tooI've just operated a 1940s Coleman burner inherited from my father (died April last year at 96) who in turn inherited it from a fellow whom he worked with for a decade or so. It hasn't been started for the past 50 years or so.
This guy , Roland Rodda, was a navigator in the New Zealnd air force in WW2 ; also a doctor, and spent some of wartime in the wilds of Papua New Guinea. He was the foundation professor of pathology at the Tasmanian medical school in the mid 1960s, and his special interest was neuropathology.
He was an accomplished mountaineer , having climbed with Ed Hillary and completed some first ascents of NZ peaks e.g. the Nth Buttress of Mt Aspiring in 1956. He was naturally attracted to the mountains of Tasmania, and better prospects professionally.
He recruited my father to the same dept (reader in medical microbiology) and in 1970 we emigrated by sea from Oxford , England.
Shortly after arrival aged 9 or so I went on a bushwalk in the south west wilderness area. Rodda led the party of a dozen or so , with my dad and brother included. It was a tough relentless climb and we didn't have the speed or experience to summit the peak (Mt Anne).
But that trip ignited my love of the outdoors and hiking.
I became a medical student and was taught pathology by old Roley. He used to smoke in lectures, incluing a couple on atherosclerosis!
He developed emphysema and after retirement in 1982 emigrated to England , the country of his wife's birth.
He spent his retirement in the Lakes District, hiking with an oxygen cylinder strapped to his back.
Moving on , he gifted the Coleman to my dad. Having informed dad the stove ran on petrol , my father was spooked and never tried to operate it.
He was fine using kerosene blowtorches , but petrol scared him!
Anyway today I pulled the stove out of its case and after lubing the leather valve with oil and cleaning the carbon from the brass mesh filter, fired it up using Shellite. It runs like a champ!
So well made; "Roly" the stove is going straight into the back of the Grenadier
Bottom pic is me ; the iconic Lake Pedder in the background. This has an 800m white quartzite beach. Sadly the lake was flooded in 1972 for a hydroelectricity scheme. thereby kicking of the world's first Green political movement.
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Signal flare no doubt
Correct. At one time all sorts of rounds were available for these signal pistols. Surplus colored flares and smoke rounds were available almost everywhere at a fair price.
