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To submit a dial to the database, please email the best quality scans of your dials to Tom at tomvox1@hotmail.com. Or post it on the main forum and we’ll copy it from there.

Please include as much of the following information as you have available:

  • Model #
  • Case serial #
  • Inner caseback date stamp:
  • Caliber of movement:
  • Comments/provenance

    Dials that you submit should be of watches that you have photographed yourself or own. Please, no watches found on the internet, no watches for sale through dealers or eBay. By submitting your dials, you give the VRF permission to store them on the VRF’s servers and display them in the dial archive. You retain ownership and may request your dials to be removed. You may chose to remain anonymous or you may give your name for attribution.

    If you have seen a dial that you find questionable as regards authenticity, please email Tom at tomvox1@hotmail.com with your concerns. The dial will be inspected further and submitted for expert review. Should the dial be ruled particularly questionable as regards authenticity, it will be removed and the owner notified privately. There will be no more public commentary on the authenticity of dials and if you have misgivings about a certain dial, you must contact the Curator.

    Thanks for participating and please submit as many dials as you like. Remember, the dial database will only be successful if people are willing to participate.

    Now let's see some scans!
    tomvox1

     

    The best available estimate for the chronological sequence of Double Red Sea-Dweller dials fonts (or “Marks”) by case serial # is this one from a post authored by Marcello Pisani:

    a) Mark I: from 1,600,000 to around 2.2 mil (only with “Patent Pending” back)
    b) Mark II: from 1,600,000 to around 3.1 mil either “Patent Pending” or not (in other words, for cases with only the last 3 digits engraved in the inside of the back)
    c) Mark III: from 2.2mil to around 4.1mil.
    d) Mark IV: from 3.1mil to end of Double Red dial production, ca. 5.1mil (with word "ROLEX" straight on the outside of the back)

    Please take note of the considerable overlap between the styles of the dials & the production periods:

    “DRSD case numbers were always engraved "in batches" (for example one finds 3.1mil then 3.5mil then 4.0mil and not 3.1-3.2-3.3 and so on). This means that after 1972 they put what they had "in stock" at the moment...So, for example, you can see in the 3.1mil cases either Mk II, Mk III or IV dials."


    Disclaimer:

    1) With Rolex nearly everything is possible, especially with an 'odd' watch like the DRSD…
    2) I'm not God (and I don't pretend to be Him)...
    3) I have seen many watches but something new can always appear.

    Marcello Pisani

     

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