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Lot Essay
With Rolex International Guarantee dated 22 October 2013, product literature, fitted presentation box and outer packagings. Furthermore delivered with a bound volume of the current owner's Royal Navy Diving Log.
Consigned by its original owner the present watch has never been used and is in new old stock condition. It is no. 042 of the limited edition of only 50 examples of the Rolex Sea Dweller Deepsea "Royal Navy Clearance Diver Special Edition" made in 2013. To commemorate the formation of the Royal Navy Clearance Branch over 60 years ago, and to celebrate the numerous operations that the Branch has most successfully conducted, both at home and overseas, past and present, Rolex agreed to produce a limited series of only 50 "Royal Navy Clearance Diver Special Edition" Sea Dweller Deepsea Watches. To reflect the heart of the operational community, the case backs feature a high relief representation of the Royal Navy Clearance Diver's crest.
Following his career as a Royal Navy first class diver and bomb disposal officer, the actual owner of the watch left the Navy in 2000 but is still actively involved with diving and bomb disposal. His latest missions included clearing WWII sea mines in the North Sea, recovering sunken warships filled with munitions off the Iraqi coast, clearing minefields for the United Nations in Libya and conducting missile disposal in Cameroon for the Government. A bound volume of his extensive dive logs is sold with this watch.
Considered the 'most dangerous underwater job', the British Navy is one of only three in the world to employ these 'Human Minesweepers', highly trained individuals whose initial role was to clear sea-lanes to allow landing crafts to approach enemy beaches safely.
Consigned by its original owner the present watch has never been used and is in new old stock condition. It is no. 042 of the limited edition of only 50 examples of the Rolex Sea Dweller Deepsea "Royal Navy Clearance Diver Special Edition" made in 2013. To commemorate the formation of the Royal Navy Clearance Branch over 60 years ago, and to celebrate the numerous operations that the Branch has most successfully conducted, both at home and overseas, past and present, Rolex agreed to produce a limited series of only 50 "Royal Navy Clearance Diver Special Edition" Sea Dweller Deepsea Watches. To reflect the heart of the operational community, the case backs feature a high relief representation of the Royal Navy Clearance Diver's crest.
Following his career as a Royal Navy first class diver and bomb disposal officer, the actual owner of the watch left the Navy in 2000 but is still actively involved with diving and bomb disposal. His latest missions included clearing WWII sea mines in the North Sea, recovering sunken warships filled with munitions off the Iraqi coast, clearing minefields for the United Nations in Libya and conducting missile disposal in Cameroon for the Government. A bound volume of his extensive dive logs is sold with this watch.
Considered the 'most dangerous underwater job', the British Navy is one of only three in the world to employ these 'Human Minesweepers', highly trained individuals whose initial role was to clear sea-lanes to allow landing crafts to approach enemy beaches safely.