Rolex Submariner

Rolex Submariner Date, two-tone 'Bluesy' The Submariner is the watch the entire dive category is measured against, first released in 1953. This is the two-tone version in steel and yellow gold that collectors call the Bluesy, with a royal blue dial and a matching blue ceramic Cerachrom bezel, the modern generation that replaced the old aluminum insert. It is a self-winding automatic in a roughly 40mm Oyster case rated to 300 meters. The gold trim does not make it a dress watch: it is built to the same dive standard as the all-steel models. A career in coins The owner served as a U.S. Army Infantryman and then as a U.S. Air Force intelligence professional supporting national mission units, the military's most sensitive special operations elements. The coins around the watch read like a service record: Task Force Dagger, the special operations task force that went into Afghanistan in 2001; the 480th ISR Wing, an Air Force intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance command; a Sacramento violent crime intelligence working group; and the Citrus Heights Police Department. His work continued as a Joint Terrorism Task Force intelligence officer and as a senior consultant on an FBI prison gang program. The Submariner sits in the center of all of it, not as a luxury, but as the one constant across decades of military, intelligence, and law enforcement service.