Right before I got on the plane in San Francisco my father gave me a Rolex Submariner a 1921 silver dollar and his old Shrade pocket knife, that was February 2nd 1970. That watch survived one tour in Vietnam, 5 1/2 years with the Sheriff’s Dept and is going on 4 decades in the oil fields of West TX. I’ve changed bands once because the Jubilee band stretched and got loose, while they replaced the band I also had them clean it and give it the once over. It’s sitting on my left wrist right now and will still lose about 5 minutes every month. The silver dollar rides in my right front pocket and sadly the old Shrade lies somewhere in the A Shau valley lost during Operation Texas Star.
One of my Navy CO’s had been a submariner and he had one of those Rolex watches. It worked great.
I have my dad’s Shrade Pocket Knife and his birth year Silver Dollar which my wife and I gave him.