The End !!
Es hat etwas länger gedauert, aber nun ist der Brief gekommen - er erzählt mehr über die die Geschichte einer Familie, als über die Uhr, und genau deswegen eben doch sehr viel über die Daytona - love it !!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MISTER D.
Story about a Rolex and its owner.
Watch: Oyster Cosmograph, model 6263, serial 2653677
This watch was purchased by Major Alfred Dutton circa 1970.
Major Alfred Dutton fought during WWII in the desert against the Italians.
For some time, he was in charge of a mobile workshop used to repair military machinery and equipment.
When the USA joined the war with its outstanding manufacturing capacity, many new tanks, planes and other equipment became available so that the need to repair things in the field became less necessary, “if you would get a tank broken, the americans would give you two new ones”. Therefore, Mr. Dutton got different assignments from that moment. At some point he was granted the title of Major by the UK Royal Authorities.
He married Miss Peggy Elizabeth in London 15 days before he departed for war, so they were in touch only by letters for 4 years.
When the war ended, he went back to the UK and got back together with his wife Peggy again. At that time, his father Mr. Thomas E. Dutton had already moved to Yucatan, Mexico, where he was serving as the British Honorary Consul for that region and had also started a machinery business which was bringing agricultural development to that part of the world, by importing diesel engines and other machines from the UK to Mexico.
Mr. Alfred saw that as an opportunity to start a new life, a new project, in a new world. So he and his wife moved to Mexico to continue his dad’s business and overseas royal duties.
Mr. Alfred Dutton bought a Cessna plane when he was around 60 years old and used to fly around Mexico and the USA. For navigational purposes, he looked for a good watch, and selected this Oyster Cosmograph for its unique characteristics.
He used the watch for about 5 years until the first “Loran System” became available in the market for navigation.
He bought a Loran and installed it in the small Cessna plane. Then he gave the watch as a gift to his son Geoffrey Dutton. Geoff said he was scared of losing this watch on the dayly use. So he asked his dad to keep it in the safe box. So that Mr. Alfred put the watch in his safe box. He told his wife Peggy to give the watch to Geoff when he happens to pass away.
About 30 years later, when Mr. Alfred Dutton passed away, his wife Peggy took the watch out of the safe box and gave it to his son Geoff who kept it in another safe box for another 3 years. He realized that he was never going to use it so he decided to sell it. He asked me, his son (Alfred’s grand son) to announce it on the Internet. I did, and found Mr. Werner Feig who was so keen to get the watch.
On one of my journeys to the UK, I met a friend of his who checked it and loved it.
Now the watch continues to be in good hands of someone who recognizes its value.
I know this watch will be somewhere in the world for another 40 years or more. Hope it keeps with people who valuate it. It will always keep a part of the Dutton Family in it, and a fantastic story.
Sincerely, Tomas Dutton
