Vintage Rolex Datejust 1603 with Box and Papers from 1969

[watch_don]

Hi, I'm listing my vintage Rolex Datejust for sale. The reference number is 1603 and the serial number dates the watch to 1969. These 1603's are quite rare as they are, but extremely rare as complete sets with boxes and papers. I bought the watch three months ago from a reputable store in NYC. The store had serviced the watch and issued a 1 year warranty dated Aug 31, 2017, hence there is 9 months remaining on the warranty. The watch is telling perfect time, well within COSC specifications. The watch itself is in great condition for its age. It has a tritium (T Swiss T) dial, and the lume plots by the indices exactly match the lume on the hands. There are no lume imperfections and all lume is fully intact. The watch has the pan dial, in which the dial bevels up near the indicies. The question is often asked should one get the 1603 or the 16030 - the former has the classic pan dial but the non-quickset date feature, while the later has the quickset date feature but the flat dial. In my opinion, the pan dial wins every time, because of the type of vintage look it has. There are no scratches or marks dial or on the crystal. In the macro photos, it looks like there's a scratch on the crystal by the cyclopse, but this was a piece of linen thread which I wiped off. The watch comes with both inner and outer boxes (with the "1603" sticker on the outer box), original Rolex papers (with reference and serial number that clearly match those show on the watch case between the lugs), both the green Datejust tag and the red Rolex tag, as well as a tag that says "Japan Watch Importers Association", and the Rolex translation card, and lastly the green Rolex cardholder. The papers are in the form of a Rolex booklet, whereby the first page shows the reference number and serial number and the place where the watch was purchased, and the remaining pages of the booklet show other Rolex models and the history of Rolex in general. During this time period, there were only a limited number of Rolex watches that were allowed to be imported into Japan each year, and this was governed by the Japan Watch Importers association, which was founded in 1955. There's a long article about this if you google it. This is a nice watch with great ephemera. It is telling absolutely perfect time, not a second late or a second fast. I've been wearing it daily for almost 3 months now and the time is perfectly matching my I-phone time. I have plenty of solid references as a buyer and as a seller. Happy to do a F2F in the GTA, or I can ship it overnight to anywhere in Canada. $4200 shipping included. Full return if not satisfied.