Beautiful ROLEX 1939’ vintage wristwatch
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BeautifulROLEX 1939’vintage wristwatch I bring to your attention a ROLEX Wristwatch . This beautiful ROLEX is in perfect condition. DIAL: The original enamel dial Rolex in perfect condition , no cracks and chips MOVEMENT: Rolex original movement in super condition, very clean ,great keeps time. Size 40.5 mm,17 jewels CASE: The custom made case is stainless steel with a exhibition back SIZE: 48 mm (not counting the crown),74 mm long(lugs to lugs). BRAND: New,leather,20 mm The wrist watch conversion started in the nineteenth century, when soldiers discovered their usefulness during wartime situations. Pocket watches were clumsy to carry and thus difficult to operate while in combat. Therefore, soldiers fitted them into primitive “cupped” leather straps so they could be worn on the wrist, thereby freeing up their hands during battle. The role of the wristwatch seems to have come full circle. With the general public now leaning toward high-tech, digital gadgets, the classic mechanical wristwatch has once again found its home on the wrists of those brave soldiers who welcomed it some 100 years ago HISTORY : Hans Wilsdorf founded the company we now know as Rolex in 1905. Ironically, the father of what has over the years become the irrefutable symbol of Swiss watches was born in Kulmbach, Germany, and his firm was initially based
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