GUEST: When I was 18, I was living with my uncle, and I joined the military, and he gave me this watch when I joined the military. He was in Vietnam from '69 to '70, and he bought it at the PX there for $100. And I wore it every day. I wore it at work throughout my whole police career. It's been beat up quite a bit, as you can imagine, in search warrants, or trying to arrest suspects, and getting smashed to the ground trying to arrest somebody that's fighting. And so it's... it's had a rough life. It's been in 49 years of battle, it seems like.
APPRAISER: All right, and do you still wear it every day?
GUEST: I do, I still wear it every day.
APPRAISER: It's a Rolex GMT-Master. Recently, GMT-Masters have become very collectible watches. This particular one was manufactured in 1967. It's great that there's a picture of it here, we have here of your uncle wearing the watch.
GUEST: He was... yeah, he was just getting promoted to first lieutenant, he was getting pinned, and he's got the watch on in this while he's getting promoted.
APPRAISER: Your watch, the face has been refinished. It's had some things done to it. And it has some condition issues. The case has been banged up, as you said. It took a lot of abuse.
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: But all that being said, your watch still today would easily retail from between $7,500 and $8,500.
GUEST: (laughs) Man, if I'd had known that, I don't think I'd have wore it to Afghanistan. I wore that every day in Afghanistan.
APPRAISER: Did you really?
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: Wow.
GUEST: Oh, I can't... Seven, $7,500?
APPRAISER: Easily, to $8,500. That's a realistic retail price on the watch.
GUEST: (laughs) Oh, man.
