HODINKEE: Charlie Dunne Quoted On Vintage Rolex Submariners

Anthony Traina recently wrote for HODINKEE ‘A Collector's Guide To The Vintage Rolex Submariner 5513.. Within the article, Charlie Dunne is quoted on the 5513 and vintage Submariners.

"Sure, the 5512 is rarer, but for the most part, people just want a good-looking Submariner with a little character," Charlie Dunne, Vice President and Senior Specialist at Wind Vintage, said. It's often said that you'll find one 5512 for every 20 5513s, but these are just estimates.

In his excellent in-depth article on the Submariner 5512, Dunne explained that the pad printing (or tampography) process was actually invented for watch dials by a German industrialist, developing a process to print matte dials at scale by 1968. It's no wonder we saw brands like Rolex transition from those pesky gilt dials to matte dials in the late '60s. While pad printing would soon be used for all kinds of things, it was invented for watches.”

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