Birth year watches are a pretty special thing, especially if you manage to find one in a watch model that you actually want. But here’s something you don’t see very often … or ever, really. Darren has gone and bought himself a gorgeous Rolex GMT-Master Ref.1675 “Pepsi” that was not only sold in his birth year but on his birth date! That’s pretty remarkable and, if I’m being completely honest, I’m exceedingly jealous. Where did you first see/hear about it? I purchase a lot of my watches from trusted dealers in Singapore, having lived there for a couple of years and regularly travel there for work. Recently I have been bitten by the vintage watch bug. One Sunday in August I was on WhatsApp texting Alvin, the owner of Monster-Time Vintage. I was inquiring about a vintage GMT he had, as I was chasing a birth year watch. He asked me my date of birth and I told him it was the 2nd of May, 1978. About 15 mins later he came back and said, “You’ve got to be kidding me … you’re freaking me out!” He sent me pictures of the GMT saying to check the date on the…
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