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Nutting ordered a Rolex. The watch is a steel 3525 Oyster Chronograph Antimagnetic, serial 185,983, made in 1941 and shipped by Rolex on credit in 1943. The Antiquorum lot text records a shipping date of 8 July 1943; Rolex Magazine's article on the watch records a delivery-to-camp date of 4 August 1943. Both can be true: one is the Swiss ship date, the other the camp arrival date. By August 1943 Nutting had a Rolex chronograph on his wrist in Stalag Luft III, eight months before the Great Escape.

Nutting kept the watch for the rest of his life. He repatriated to Britain after the war, later emigrated to Queensland, Australia, and died there in 2001 at age 90. His archive stayed with the watch: the numbered receipt from Rolex, the numbered guarantee, the Rolex envelope, three letters from the Rolex Watch Co. signed by Hans Wilsdorf, and Nutting's own correspondence and photographs from Stalag Luft III. The whole package sold at Antiquorum in 2007.

Nutting kept the watch for the rest of his life. He repatriated to Britain after the war, later emigrated to Queensland, Australia, and died there in 2001 at age 90. His archive stayed with the watch: the numbered receipt from Rolex, the numbered guarantee, the Rolex envelope, three letters from the Rolex Watch Co. signed by Hans Wilsdorf, and Nutting's own correspondence and photographs from Stalag Luft III. The whole package sold at Antiquorum in 2007 for £66,000.

Other POW-provenance 3525s surface periodically. The Brownlee watch (USAAF 1st Lt Leon W. Brownlee, held at Stalag 7A in Moosburg, Bavaria, freed April 1945) appeared at Antiquorum Geneva in May 2023 with an estimate of EUR 62,000–102,000. Phillips published an article on the Dickins 3525 (RAF Wing Commander Douglas S. Dickins). Dealer and forum listings carry additional named-POW examples. The Rolex POW archive is incomplete; no full list of delivered watches survives in public. The documented examples form a small, coherent corpus.

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 Nutting ordered a Rolex. The watch is a steel 3525 Oyster Chronograph Antimagnetic, serial 185,983, made in 1941 and shipped by Rolex on credit in 1943. The Antiquorum lot text records a shipping date of 8 July 1943; Rolex Magazine's article on the watch records a delivery-to-camp date of 4 August 1943. Both can be true: one is the Swiss ship date, the other the camp arrival date. By August 1943 Nutting had a Rolex chronograph on his wrist in Stalag Luft III, eight months before the Great Escape.
-Nutting kept the watch for the rest of his life. He repatriated to Britain after the war, later emigrated to Queensland, Australia, and died there in 2001 at age 90. His archive stayed with the watch: the numbered receipt from Rolex, the numbered guarantee, the Rolex envelope, three letters from the Rolex Watch Co. signed by Hans Wilsdorf, and Nutting's own correspondence and photographs from Stalag Luft III. The whole package sold at Antiquorum in 2007.
+Nutting kept the watch for the rest of his life. He repatriated to Britain after the war, later emigrated to Queensland, Australia, and died there in 2001 at age 90. His archive stayed with the watch: the numbered receipt from Rolex, the numbered guarantee, the Rolex envelope, three letters from the Rolex Watch Co. signed by Hans Wilsdorf, and Nutting's own correspondence and photographs from Stalag Luft III. The whole package sold at Antiquorum in 2007 for £66,000.
 Other POW-provenance 3525s surface periodically. The Brownlee watch (USAAF 1st Lt Leon W. Brownlee, held at Stalag 7A in Moosburg, Bavaria, freed April 1945) appeared at Antiquorum Geneva in May 2023 with an estimate of EUR 62,000–102,000. Phillips published an article on the Dickins 3525 (RAF Wing Commander Douglas S. Dickins). Dealer and forum listings carry additional named-POW examples. The Rolex POW archive is incomplete; no full list of delivered watches survives in public. The documented examples form a small, coherent corpus.