Sonning Vintage Watches

This is a beautiful example of the iconic Rolex Datejust from 1968 (made) and 1969 (sold). The steel and solid gold (fluted bezel) case is in excellent condition with only the most minor signs of wear – I’ll be taking the case back to SHWR next week to have the engraving filled and polished out. The original Rolex signed steel pearlescent dial is again in excellent condition and absolutely beautiful. The applied gold hour batons and hands provide the softest contrast to the dial and are perfectly framed by the solid gold fluted bezel. The very high grade chronometer standard automatic movement is again in excellent condition and has just been serviced by our professional watchmaker. The watch sits on what we believe is the original steel and solid gold Rolex Jubilee bracelet. It’s in excellent aesthetic condition but does have significant sag and stretch – it is safe though. The end pieces have the reference of 55 and the deployment clasp 6251H and age reference of 1 69 dating it to quarter 1 of 1969. Very rarely we have excellent provenance:

• The Your Rolex Oyster guarantee document with punched serial number
• The manually completed (by Rolex) Chronometer Certificate
• The Rolex service record from 2015 – card, brochure and invoice

To find any history from a watch of this age is extremely rare and to have all this and the original bracelet is almost unheard of. We’ll include a very high quality alligator skin strap as well if required.

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The steel and solid gold (fluted bezel) case is in excellent condition with only the most minor signs of wear – I’ll be taking the case back to SHWR next week to have the engraving filled and polished out. The case measures 36mm across, excluding the Rolex signed crown and 43mm long including the lugs. The inside case is signed ‘Montres Rolex SA Geneva Switzerland’, ‘Patented Stainless Steel’, ‘1601’ and the age reference is ‘11.68’ showing it was made in 1968.

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The very high grade chronometer standard automatic movement is again in excellent condition and has just been serviced by our professional watchmaker. The movement is signed ‘Montres Rolex SA Geneva Swiss’, ‘Twenty Six 26 Jewels’, ‘ Adj. 5 Positions and Temp’ and the calibre is ‘1570’. The movement number is 43786.

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Sonning Vintage Watches are one of the largest prestige brand vintage watch retailers on the Internet carrying stock of around £800,000; we’ve sold over 3,000 vintage watches across the world since our formation in 2009. We’re based in Berkshire and Nottingham and spend 1- 2 days a week in London. Whilst we’re an Internet business we do ‘show’ 90% of our watches prior to sale and travel across England to meet prospective buyers.

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We provide a lifetime guarantee on the authenticity and provenance of all our watches and come with a full printed Receipt of Sale and Insurance Valuation. Purchasing from SVW gives you the protection and reassurance of buying from an incorporated company with outstanding customer testimonials.

We provide a high quality box and use the Royal Mail Special Delivery for the UK and DHL for overseas sales. They are insured for the full purchase value.

See what our customers say – 100% positive feedback on all our sales sites and over 40% of our customers buy again or refer us!

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We use the Royal Mail’s Guaranteed next day service for UK sales and DHL for all overseas shipping. All our watches are fully serviced, but prior to couriering each one will undergo a 3 day pre-delivery check to ensure the watch is in perfect condition.

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This is a beautiful example of a watch from one of horology’s most famous names and will, if history is any judge, provide an excellent financial investment as well as a possession to treasure and enjoy. I will provide an insurance valuation in excess of my asking price. Please appreciate the difficulty of photographing this piece, it looks even better in real life. Subject to your location I’ll happily show the watch.