Folks, I know that ther have been lots of photos of various permatations of the DRSD. In fact I had another one,a Watchmaster, back a year or so ago. I bought this one several months ago, sent it to Joe, who spent the winter and spring under the weather. Well I had a visit from my nice post lady Saturday and lo and behold it was the DRSD!
I really like this one, it looks absolutely identical to several DRSD's that are pictured in Skeet and Urul's great reference book "Vintage Rolex Sports models". Joe has been working on a vintage lume method that looks like aged tritium, but has a nice lume when exposed to bright light. I believe that the lack of lume completely in the replicas is a dead givaway. All of my old genuine dive watches, most from the 1960's have a little lume when exposed to bright light for 20-30 seconds. Most don't last very long, but the lume is there. I believe that Joe has achieved this with the lume material that he is able to apply now.
I put the watch on a replica Rolex Riveted bracelet that is OK, but nothing special. I got it off Ebay, fom one of the regular sellers. My Watchmaster was on a genuine Rolex Riveted, and even though it was pretty old, it was much better quality. The first problem I ran into with this one was the end links weren't large enough to allow the use of the thicker Rolex Springbars. I'll be on the lookout for a better one to put on this nice watch.
Well here it is:
I really like this one, it looks absolutely identical to several DRSD's that are pictured in Skeet and Urul's great reference book "Vintage Rolex Sports models". Joe has been working on a vintage lume method that looks like aged tritium, but has a nice lume when exposed to bright light. I believe that the lack of lume completely in the replicas is a dead givaway. All of my old genuine dive watches, most from the 1960's have a little lume when exposed to bright light for 20-30 seconds. Most don't last very long, but the lume is there. I believe that Joe has achieved this with the lume material that he is able to apply now.
I put the watch on a replica Rolex Riveted bracelet that is OK, but nothing special. I got it off Ebay, fom one of the regular sellers. My Watchmaster was on a genuine Rolex Riveted, and even though it was pretty old, it was much better quality. The first problem I ran into with this one was the end links weren't large enough to allow the use of the thicker Rolex Springbars. I'll be on the lookout for a better one to put on this nice watch.
Well here it is:
