UDT guys had team issued Rolexs. Not sure if they got to keep them afterwards.
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CE: Back in the day (mid-1980s) I knew a SEAL who’d been with Juliet Platoon in Vietnam and had picked up a Rolex Submariner in Saigon for some stupid cheap amount of money. He’d done two tours with the watch and then all sorts of other crazy shit during the 1970s and 1980s and the watch had performed flawlessly. By the time I laid eyes on it, it was pretty banged up, but kept excellent time. He told me a Rolex collector had offered him big money to sell it, saying that the Rolex movement had changed sometime in the late 1970s and these earlier watches were now worth a pretty penny due to better construction and the more accurate movement.
Far as I know, he still has the watch and it’s still ticking along.
Didn’t know the UDT/SEALs were issued Rolexes, but it wouldn’t surprise me. Fucking SEALs are like goddamn rockstars; they get all the good shit. We had to beg, borrow and steal just to get anything that wasn’t secondhand. Almost as bad as being in the Marines.
