Rolex back-of-the-safe find

Post by **logan2z** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 5:56 pm

Thought you Rolex guys might find this interesting

http://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?t=374510

Torrid · Post by **Torrid** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:05 pm

As a Rolex layman, that's damn nice. Love it. He isn't saying much but it sounds like he likely got a steal of a deal.

Panerai7 · Post by **Panerai7** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:07 pm

Awesome, what a great find

That's how I wanna find my 1974 5513, untouched, unpolished, uunworn, nos.

andrema · Post by **andrema** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:16 pm

Shit, Zack has 10 of those in his safe deposit box...

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Heuerville · Post by **Heuerville** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:18 pm

I always find this stuff a bit weird.

Imagine you are an old guy that runs a business that sells (or used to sell) Rolex/High end watches, and you have a very old safe.
You know watches inside out, it's been your life for 30-40-50 years. You telling me that you've never thought "might look at the back of that safe, could be $1m worth of stuff", then thought.. "nah, I'm not interested". I'll wait until someone asks.

Torrid · Post by **Torrid** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:21 pm

Heuerville wrote:I always find this stuff a bit weird.

Imagine you are an old guy that runs a business that sells (or used to sell) Rolex/High end watches, and you have a very old safe.
You know watches inside out, it's been your life for 30-40-50 years. You telling me that you've never thought "might look at the back of that safe, could be $1m worth of stuff", then thought.. "nah, I'm not interested". I'll wait until someone asks.

Some are more aloof than others, but it does sound unlikely.

blkgsl · Post by **blkgsl** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:37 pm

Heuerville wrote:I always find this stuff a bit weird.

Imagine you are an old guy that runs a business that sells (or used to sell) Rolex/High end watches, and you have a very old safe.
You know watches inside out, it's been your life for 30-40-50 years. You telling me that you've never thought "might look at the back of that safe, could be $1m worth of stuff", then thought.. "nah, I'm not interested". I'll wait until someone asks.

Sometimes , the scope of the work is simply overwhelming to ponder, and you let go of it "for later down the road." For example, I know I have a lot of new or refurbished parts for probably 30 different cars I've owned laying around in my warehouse, from bumpers and kits to wheels and hardtops. But until the time comes for someone to ask for a white on beige R129 SL panoramic hard too, there's no motivation to clean the crap out, catalog it, etc.

Tl;dr: I'm a lazy Chinese man.

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Chocodove · Post by **Chocodove** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:37 pm

Regardless of where it came from, that's a beautiful watch.

Heuerville · Post by **Heuerville** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:39 pm

Chocodove wrote:Regardless of where it came from, that's a beautiful watch.

Agreed

blkgsl · Post by **blkgsl** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:39 pm

Oh - and that's a good find !

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4pfrench · Post by **4pfrench** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:46 pm

blkgsl wrote:
Heuerville wrote:I always find this stuff a bit weird.

Imagine you are an old guy that runs a business that sells (or used to sell) Rolex/High end watches, and you have a very old safe.
You know watches inside out, it's been your life for 30-40-50 years. You telling me that you've never thought "might look at the back of that safe, could be $1m worth of stuff", then thought.. "nah, I'm not interested". I'll wait until someone asks.
Sometimes , the scope of the work is simply overwhelming to ponder, and you let go of it "for later down the road." For example, I know I have a lot of new or refurbished parts for probably 30 different cars I've owned laying around in my warehouse, from bumpers and kits to wheels and hardtops. But until the time comes for someone to ask for a white on beige R129 SL panoramic hard too, there's no motivation to clean the crap out, catalog it, etc.

Tl;dr: I'm a lazy Chinese man.

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TL:DR Zack has a warehouse

Heuerville · Post by **Heuerville** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:47 pm

4pfrench wrote:
blkgsl wrote:
Heuerville wrote:I always find this stuff a bit weird.

Imagine you are an old guy that runs a business that sells (or used to sell) Rolex/High end watches, and you have a very old safe.
You know watches inside out, it's been your life for 30-40-50 years. You telling me that you've never thought "might look at the back of that safe, could be $1m worth of stuff", then thought.. "nah, I'm not interested". I'll wait until someone asks.
Sometimes , the scope of the work is simply overwhelming to ponder, and you let go of it "for later down the road." For example, I know I have a lot of new or refurbished parts for probably 30 different cars I've owned laying around in my warehouse, from bumpers and kits to wheels and hardtops. But until the time comes for someone to ask for a white on beige R129 SL panoramic hard too, there's no motivation to clean the crap out, catalog it, etc.

Tl;dr: I'm a lazy Chinese man.

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TL:DR Zack has a warehouse

Warehouse full of old safes he heisted.

gwells · Post by **gwells** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:48 pm

so an AD didn't keep good inventory records for what rolexes they have and nobody noticed it was missing? even 50 years ago.

Chocodove · Post by **Chocodove** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:50 pm

Heuerville wrote:
4pfrench wrote:
blkgsl wrote:
Heuerville wrote:I always find this stuff a bit weird.

Imagine you are an old guy that runs a business that sells (or used to sell) Rolex/High end watches, and you have a very old safe.
You know watches inside out, it's been your life for 30-40-50 years. You telling me that you've never thought "might look at the back of that safe, could be $1m worth of stuff", then thought.. "nah, I'm not interested". I'll wait until someone asks.
Sometimes , the scope of the work is simply overwhelming to ponder, and you let go of it "for later down the road." For example, I know I have a lot of new or refurbished parts for probably 30 different cars I've owned laying around in my warehouse, from bumpers and kits to wheels and hardtops. But until the time comes for someone to ask for a white on beige R129 SL panoramic hard too, there's no motivation to clean the crap out, catalog it, etc.

Tl;dr: I'm a lazy Chinese man.

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TL:DR Zack has a warehouse
Warehouse full of old safes he heisted.

With enough parts to build several super cars.

mikeylacroix · Post by **mikeylacroix** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 7:20 pm

Chocodove wrote:
Heuerville wrote:
4pfrench wrote:
blkgsl wrote:
Heuerville wrote:I always find this stuff a bit weird.

Imagine you are an old guy that runs a business that sells (or used to sell) Rolex/High end watches, and you have a very old safe.
You know watches inside out, it's been your life for 30-40-50 years. You telling me that you've never thought "might look at the back of that safe, could be $1m worth of stuff", then thought.. "nah, I'm not interested". I'll wait until someone asks.
Sometimes , the scope of the work is simply overwhelming to ponder, and you let go of it "for later down the road." For example, I know I have a lot of new or refurbished parts for probably 30 different cars I've owned laying around in my warehouse, from bumpers and kits to wheels and hardtops. But until the time comes for someone to ask for a white on beige R129 SL panoramic hard too, there's no motivation to clean the crap out, catalog it, etc.

Tl;dr: I'm a lazy Chinese man.

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TL:DR Zack has a warehouse
Warehouse full of old safes he heisted.
With enough parts to build several super cars.

Warehouse with safes with spaces/cracks in between for watches to fall into

dmckean44 · Post by **dmckean44** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 7:52 pm

I'm sure the watch wasn't worth a whole lot when someone traded it in back in the 70s.

Post by **toxicavenger** » Sun Jul 17, 2016 9:29 pm

"cough" bullshit

hoppes-no9 · Post by **hoppes-no9** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 9:49 am

Heuerville wrote:I always find this stuff a bit weird.

Imagine you are an old guy that runs a business that sells (or used to sell) Rolex/High end watches, and you have a very old safe.
You know watches inside out, it's been your life for 30-40-50 years. You telling me that you've never thought "might look at the back of that safe, could be $1m worth of stuff", then thought.. "nah, I'm not interested". I'll wait until someone asks.

I don't find this sort of thing surprising.

When I was packing stuff in preparation to move last year, I boxed up and confirmed the serial numbers on all my guns. Tucked in the back of the safe I found a brand new Colt Combat Commander. Only after thinking about it for a little while did I even remember buying it a couple of years previously.

I'm not that old, and I don't have that big of a collection. So I can see how an older guy that deals in large volumes of stuff could forget about something like this.

james80 · Post by **james80** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 9:52 am

I once found some lint at the back of a drawer that I forgot I had.

Post by **toxicavenger** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 10:58 am

I found some balls in my wifes purse last week, then I realized they were mine

james80 · Post by **james80** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 12:45 pm

Surely just one, doesn't Hoppy have the other?

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