Geschichte meiner AAFES Military-16800

Ich habe jetzt die Geschichte meiner kürzlich erworbenen 16800 recherchiert, interessant, wie ich finde.

1986 kaufte sich ein junger PFC( Private First Class) der US-ARMY, stationiert in Deutschland von seinem ersten Sold eine nagelneue Rolex Submariner, schon mit Saphirglas und bis 300m wasserdicht. Er ging in den Würzburger AAFES-Store und nahm die Uhr mit, die er sich zuvor im Katalog zwischen Stereoanlagen und Porzellanfiguren ausgesucht hatte.

Ganz stolz trug er die Uhr von nun an und sie begleitete ihn bei Einsätzen rund um die Welt, zuletzt auch im Irak bei der Operation Dessert Storm.

2006 ging er nach 20 Jahren Armeedienst in den militärischen Ruhestand und ich erfuhr, daß er sich von der Uhr, die ihn so viele Jahre treu begleitete, trennen würde.

So konnte ich vor ein paar Wochen diese Uhr kaufen, die ich auch schon kurz hier vorstellte. Da der gute Mann sehr ordentlich war, hat er alles aufgehoben, was bei der Uhr damals dabei war. Die Uhr ist ungeschliffen!!!

Wer jetzt denkt, ich möchte die Uhr verkaufen, der irrt. Für mich ist solch eine Uhr mit militärischer Historie und in dieser Komplettheit eigentlich unbezahlbar.

glückwunsch michael super schöne uhr und so komplett

unbezahlbar - unverkäuflich

Wunderbar, Glückwunsch

Könnte ne Uhr der WOche werden....

Irgendwie fehlt mir noch der Pulp-Fiction Aspekt:

This watch I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the first World War. It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. Made by the first company to ever make wrist watches. Up till then people just carried pocket watches. It was bought by private Doughboy Erine Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris. It was your great-grandfather's war watch and he wore it everyday he was in that war. When he had done his duty, he went home to your great-grandmother, took the watch off, put it an old coffee can, and in that can it stayed 'til your granddad Dane Coolidge was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight the Germans once again. This time they called it World War II. Your great-grandfather gave this watch to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane's luck wasn't as good as his old man's. Dane was a Marine and he was killed -- along with the other Marines at the battle of Wake Island. Your granddad was facing death, he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leavin' that island alive. So three days before the Japanese took the island, your granddad asked a gunner on an Air Force transport name of Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he'd never seen in the flesh, his gold watch. Three days later, your granddad was dead. But Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his Dad's gold watch. This watch. (holds it up, long pause) This watch was on your Daddy's wrist when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured, put in a Vietnamese prison camp. He knew if the gooks ever saw the watch it'd be confiscated, taken away. The way your Dad looked at it, that watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.

LOL; Wolltest Du mir erzählen du kannst es auswendig, ich fand es aber passend.....mußte ich sofort dran denken!