Hi all,

I made a photo to show you the similarity between the early 32 mm Oyster ref. 678 waterproof canal Rolex from 1934 sold by Coombes Company Ltd. London & Rangoon and the Panerai 3646 with military history....





& After i've seen Ed's scan of these 2 german kampfswimmer in Bernhards thread i always think of my vintage Panerai. The big guy on the right was Heinz Brettschneider and his Panerai 3646 i have since some years in the collection. I bought it from the grandson of a dutch officer who fought at Nimegen, Operation Market Garden were he probably got it from Mr. Brettschneider who also has fought exact there with his team and as only living soldier from that team came back from the war and finnaly was the founder / trainer for many years of the east german special force / kampfswimmer unit....

Here we see the whole scan of Mr. Brettschneiders team..


Set with compass and rare deptmeter..


Some scans of the still unrestored all original blue hands, reddish radium sandwich dial..










Here with tropical Tudor Big Crown from french MN....


Here with a later 6152 that already has the wellknown clasp...


Here with 2 x elegant Ur Portugieser from end of the war and a 80's Spiegelei...


Regards and thanks for looking,

Philipp