Rolex Great White Tiffany & Co. Sea-Dweller Reference 1665

This Rolex “Great White” Sea-Dweller reference 1665 is an incredibly special watch with a Tiffany & Co. signed dial. The watch comes from the original owner who purchased it while he was an undergraduate economics student at Princeton University. He decided to travel into New York City on fateful day and purchased the watch. It has been a faithful companion to him for all these years, but the original owner had some unexpected expenses come up and he decided to give us the opportunity to sell it.

It features the “Great White” Sea-Dweller dial with beautiful yellow lume. It is a “Maxi” Sea-Dweller dial and was among the last examples of the legendary reference 1665 made. These examples with 6 million serial numbers have the extremely large hour markers that give them the “Maxi” moniker. I find them to be the most beautiful Great White Sea-Dweller dials. The reference 1665 models with all-white text are known as “Great White” models and the early examples are known as “Double Red” Sea-Dwellers with two red lines of text and the earliest, essentially prototype and not-for-sale, Sea-Dwellers are known as “Single Red” Sea-Dwellers with a single line of red text.

The case has been polished. It dates to 1981 with a 6.7M serial.

The lug-to-lug length is 47mm and it measures 40mm in diameter excluding the crown.

The watch does not come box and papers. We do not know the service history but it is running well. The watch recently passed a water resistance test of 5 bar. It features a TrueDome D39 crystal.

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