The successful bidder should contact me by phone when bidding is concluded. I will email my phone number to the winner at the conclusion of the auction. Also, I will pay shipping and insurance.
Many of you have inquired regarding the history of the watch. It's intertwined with my personal history, of course, and at the risk of being very boring, I'll recount it. I was drafted out of my residency training in 1957, and assigned to the U.S. Navy (2 1/2 of the best years I ever spent in my life) I went through the Aviation Medical training program at Pensacola, became a naval flight surgeon and selected The Naval Station on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands as my duty station. We did a lot of scuba diving there, and I bought myself a dive watch at the Navy Exchange. That watch is the present one under discussion, and I paid $70.00 for it. I wore it almost exclusively for the next decade, throughout my neurosurgical residency. I went into private practice in Waco, Texas in 1964, and I practiced for 35 years, finally retiring in 1998. I wore the watch intermittently during that time. I suppose I wore it for an aggregate total of four or five weeks a year. In 1980-1990 I did a lot of scuba diving in the Bahamas, and since this was the only dive watch I ever had, I used it a lot. This to me was just a comfortable old watch of which I was very fond. For the last few years, it has been sitting in a drawer, and since we are downsizing, I thought I might sell it and get $50 or $100 for it. I didn't have a clue regarding the actual value of the piece, and it's a real shock to find it to be a very valuable and desirable item.
