Issued 30 years apart!

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Hiya Eric,

Thanks a lot for your explanations. I can well imagine that money was a considerable issue when acquiring a bunch of watches - how many pieces are we talking about?

From the look of the two different watches I gathered that the Submariner would be a lot easier to handle. In fact, the Casio seems to me a lot of fiddling about ;). But of course you are absolutely right, that they are not watch collectors.
However, the Submariner looks just fantastic! :verneig:

Regards, Theo[/quote]

Hi Theo,

The M.N. issued circa 100 Rolex 5513 in four batches between 1968 & 1975. Maybe only 50 are left today.

The M.N. issued circa 250 Casio in 1997/1998. They were real action watches:

Moderator please delete photo one if firearms photos are not allowed on the Forum.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...c1/Action2.jpg

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...c1/Action1.jpg

Best regards,

Eric

Very nice, I prefer the Rolex :]

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Hi Theo,

The M.N. issued circa 100 Rolex 5513 in four batches between 1968 & 1975. Maybe only 50 are left today.

The M.N. issued circa 250 Casio in 1997/1998. They were real action watches:

Moderator please delete photo one if firearms photos are not allowed on the Forum.

Best regards,

Eric

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Hi Eric

Thanks for the info :gut:! The pictures definitely give proof of the fact that the Casio is field-tested ;).

What type of strap is there attached to the Submariner? It looks like one from a Fifty Fathoms :grb:

Kind regards, Theo

WONDERFUL post, Eric !!!!! Thanks a lot for sharing !!!! :verneig:

@ Eric: by the way if you want to include a quote you just need to click on the "zitat"-button to be found on top of the posting that you want to refer to...just thought I'd let you know ;)

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Hi Theo,

The M.N. issued circa 100 Rolex 5513 in four batches between 1968 & 1975. Maybe only 50 are left today.

The M.N. issued circa 250 Casio in 1997/1998. They were real action watches:

Moderator please delete photo one if firearms photos are not allowed on the Forum.

Best regards,

Eric

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Hi Eric

Thanks for the info :gut:! The pictures definitely give proof of the fact that the Casio is field-tested ;).

What type of strap is there attached to the Submariner? It looks like one from a Fifty Fathoms :grb:

Kind regards, Theo

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Hi Theo,

It seems he 5513 from the Marine Nationale were issued with rolex band 9315 originally. Though a lot of them were worn with "Tropic" plastic bands . Those band were availlable at the Rolex AD and are very hard to find today.

Cordialement,

Eric

Salut Eric

That Tropic strap looks very sophisticated! :gut:
I seem to have found a Tropic-style strap on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Black-rubber-div...QQcmdZViewItem
unfortunately it's only 16mm

Regards, Theo