Why Special Forces Soldiers Wear Rolex Watches 

Shawn's actually part Japanese Samurai....Ninja in the blood

doooooooooood i c it

@@t.bickle Haha

Came to see if anyone else thought that... 🤣👊🏼‼️

Jewish is the common theme between them

I think I saw that too, I think it was on Antiques Roadshow. Guy was in the Navy when he got it and was downsizing. When the guy told him how much it was worth he literally laid down on the floor in disbelief, the appraiser thought he was having a heart attack 😅

I saw that, too. Antique Roadshow. I was happy for the vet.

If it was the same vet that I’m thinking of then it actually went to auction and pulled in about $1.2 million

Saw that too

I think I seen that too was one of the first submariner or oyster style Rolex’s in perfect condition with the receipt and everything

Sure that sounds good, but the real actual reason he wears it is because he likes it and he’s one of us crazy watch nuts.

I once saw a video of him, where he showed his EDC and explained why he wears Rolex..

But he said it himself ​@@myhandle90

AFAIK, it’s true. I’ve heard this legend before about Green Berets / SOF & their Rolexes. I think it’s in a book one of them wrote. If you ever pay attention, you’ll see many, many (dare I say most) real SOF dudes wear Rolexes. Like Shawn. I think Tu does?

​@@drjones762 My dad wears one and they used to get a really fancy/super functional one after graduation. It's a dive watch that recharges itself by movement. He's had it since graduating the Q-course about 35 years ago. His wife had it rebuilt for him in that time as well.

Is the story declassified? I'd like to hear it.

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Almost as if you listened to the video.

Commercial Divers get into some "deep" shit

Yupp

Looking for this comment!! Reason is it's well under the radar. It's rediculous to wear anything that brings attention to you when you're balls deep in a third world shit hole!! Mericans struggle with low key.

British SAS are like seal sisters. Beta males

@@user-fb5uz3zc2t They're still able to customize their kits.

@@user-fb5uz3zc2t Wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong, you're wrong. You're wrong. you're wrong. "[...] in the run up to the Gulf War in 1991, Britain’s Ministry of Defence purchased 60,000 Gold Sovereigns from the Bank of England, and then issued Special Air Service (SAS) troops and pilots with 20 gold sovereigns each which they then stitched and concealed in their clothing.

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which State's accent is it?

What about my g shock

@@TNTS8105it might get you a cup of coffee, but that’s it!

​@@TNTS8105the most expensive g shock is probably less then the cheapest Rolex.

i'll take a zippo or rolex for cheap any day, you'll lose money but your life is priceless

@@arizonatea3734 There is a solid gold g-shock that originally sold for $70k but commands much more now since there were only 35 ever made.

SAC crews had gold coins in their survival kits as well as chocolate bars, prophylactics, and nylons stockings.

Yup, A gold chain would be my go-to. You can't hide a watch underneath a shirt. I guess you could, if you want to wear long sleeves 24/7. Plus you can always break a chain into smaller pieces. I guess you could do the same if you had an all gold Rolex, Just pop off a few links.

What the stockings for ​@@DavidNefelimSlayer

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and heroin....

Yes, I still wear my G-Shock.

Both are super cool in their own right, but there's something very James Bond-esque about a Rolex 😂

Lol you're nobody. Spacial Agent. Lmao

Same with the contractor world🎉

@@jesse6760I’m a civilian, I wear Casios because…I won’t get robbed for it :( dudes take me contracting with you. I need a Rolex, for…escaping reasons.

What was the reason?

@@AidenBraydenPodcastliterally what the Asian guy was saying in this video: It’s international currency

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So germans wasnt so Bad as they say 😮

@@santtu5594really…

Sounds fake, the Mail into pow camps was opened and read, the watch would have been confiscated. Any names/places to that story

Thats awesome

That's a wild story!

I became good friends with a guy after he got back from Viet Nam. We both had been going to a local collage, we damn near looked like each other enough people thought we were brothers. It is ok by me since I never had a brother I was from Panama city and he was from Cestview Fl. I asked Bill one day what kind of watch he had on? A Nice Rolex dive watch which had a trident on the band best I remember?. Where you get that? The Seal Teams. Back then no one even really knew much about those guys like today. So, I guess the story checks out that he was given that Rolex. Bill B was just a great guy had a couple pieces of shrapnel in his rear. Is all the damage he got in Viet Nam only to be killed in a plane crash, One night. Wish he was still with us.

@@stemtostern7611seriously, and to die in a plane crash! Which is kind of a odd way to die

Rolex is Jewish. This is product placement and essentially an ad.

Wacha smokin' cowboy? The marque is owned by the Foundation named for Rolex's founder. Wilsdorf was a Protestant.

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" in the movie kill me

What??( the fff!!!??? Not "me!!"that was spellcheck!!!!!

I quit . These fones are BS.

G.I. JOEEEEEE!!

​@@DirtBallPaul lol Dirtball "fat-fingers" Paul is your new name lmao. Calm down boomer lol

Right

Submariner is worth $10k. And incredibly portable, not really traceable and very liquid across the world

High end watches ($100k+) are also one of the easiest way to transfer wealth physically from one country to another. No one asks a thing but gold + cash will be questioned and heavily

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@@samuliceotrue but there’s no such thing as a submariner Daytona lol

​@@wh1tew0lfalpha True, but clearly he misspoke and got his words mixed up.

Necklaces are gay

And make you a target

smart

So does wearing an overt expensive watch. Carry plenty of concealed cash.......works every time. Fucking rolex...........why throw a 10k watch at someone where afew hundred bucks would do the job 🙄🙄

​@StE2155 plenty of concealed cash is not always an option in foreign countries or trying to get through airports.

Like a fuckin savage 🔥🔥🔥🔥

​@@dmobius23u ain't lying! Going to the porta potty was LITERALLY like going into a Finish Sauna lol 😆

fuck yea!! thank you for service god bless

I'm not blaming him, he just twisted it up. It'd be like if you were talking about your Chevy Tahoe and then your Silverado, and that you knew someone with a "Tahoe Silverado"

Thought the same thing

Agreed, it's one or the other, but not both. lol

​@@Beefry222My favourite place to visit is Barcelona, France and I usually book tickets using my Dell Mac book Pro

I caught that, too.

Right? Isn't it either or not both in one? A Sub is a Sub and a Daytona is a Daytona. I'm confused

Yea he just misspoke

@@user-kq8wr3ly3pya I believe he meant to say Rolex Daytona not submariner Daytona haha

@@snapascrew It sent me down a rabbit hole for sure

I’m on the list at my AD for one! Lol 😂😂😂😂😂🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

LOL!! I traded my Casio calculator watch for a fake Rolex. My mother was pissed but my dad was impressed

Dude. That was currency in the 8th grade!

😂 shit son that’s some bad assery right there! I wish my watch got me laid lol

Denzel's voice, "My man. Playa to play, pimp to pimp."

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Later sold for 1.2 million

He probably would have paid closer to $120 given them prices of Rolex's at the PX back then. They can still sell for good money though

That whole story has been shown to be B.S. A fantasy to sell a book. The real story is far less dramatic. And not even a little bit heroic.

From the fiction based section aka it never happened

That’s what I wore when I was in the Marines as a rifleman lol, all black waterproof g shock baby

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🤣🤣🤣🤣 🤣 just $ 75

No carry on lol

He had an OG Daytona with all papers and receipts, love that episode

I saw that one. It was crazy

Breitling and Rolex have also made watches for them too

Panerai was originally made for The Italian Frogmen

So that's why Daniel Craig's James Bond wore one to indicate he was former SAS/SBS before going to MI6 and becoming a 00. Cool stuff.

@@Frank-uw5xq The Italian Navy Divers also wore the Citizen Fugu as well at one stage.

@@BigFerg-hf6uv cool.. didn't know that one...

Now we are talking about a serious timepiece. The Holy Grail of fine watches.

There are tons that have intricate complications. A favorite of mine is VC (Vacheron Constantin).

Still do.

Well Ronin did not, and he's an absolute savage

Greatstuff... #®️®️Daytona... Mr Jacob & co: " Hmmm interesting🤔...sounds 🆒...👨‍🔧🏁" ✊👏

Omega Michael Schumacher

that uncomfortable hunk of metal was a Lancet trench watch from 1918-swiss manual wind movement

I don’t know anything about watches and googled that name out of curiosity. Pretty sure those are two different watches right? lol

Ya. He probably just misspoke

Hate to brake your heart but it was a Sea Quartz 30 and trust me I have searched and they are no longer available!

@@marklovelace297 Hate to break your heart, but he wore a Rolex GMT Master. Find the episode entitled “Home From The Sea” (season 4, episode 1). It’s clearly visible as he checks it regularly throughout his ordeal while having to tread water. And yes-I bought the same watch years later.

@@marklovelace297 You can find still photos of that episode where a child actor is playing the young Thomas Magnum who is saluting during his father’s funeral. The watch is clearly visible in that scene as well as when the adult Thomas is treading water. While he may have worn the Sea Quartz as well in other episodes, I was referring to the Rolex GMT.

@@TheBadTradYou are correct! “Magnum” wore the GMT in several episodes. Funny thing about the The GMT, it became known as “The Pepsi Watch” due to the red and blue coloring on the dial. @marklovelace297 has no idea what he’s talking about. There’s always one in every comments section, isn’t there?

Congrats.

Glad you said it, was thinking the exact same.

I was to 😂

​​@pissedpajamas5718 true, but I think it's more bc they're bald, suit-wearing, squinty eye guys who carry themselves in a very stoic manner.

lol whatever bro

Thank you!

Who is that

U can look at the sky dweller and walk it backwards. How bout Switzerland being a tax haven or that Rolex is a charity. Bruh they play a good game but they all cap

​@@differentlystill1846 Which watch was 100 years early to the mechanical ahility of the Rolex? Which one are you talking about?

Full of $h1T!

Which one?

I thought I was the only one that noticed that.

The way he tells it (Tu tells lotsa stories, lol) they basically issue it to all the Green Berets lol.

@@SemperFi_EDC_Guy USED to. In the Vietnam Era a Rolex was a nice watch but not a luxury item like today, by any means.

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Thank you I thought I was going mad

Yeah! It is like Casuo G-Shock Crane edition! 😂😂😂

He never said submariner Daytona there Scotty boy

@@bebop4874huh? Watch the video

@@bebop4874then what did he say?…Sure sounded like that’s what he said at the end.

@@bebop4874It’s literally the exact words he said, girly daughter.

Uncomfortable Hunk of Metal brand.

@@MichaelMassie And quite smelly too, unfortunately.

It's a Lancet WW1 watch

I thought Shawn was part Japanese but could be wrong. I thought he and Glover talked about it and thats what he said

@@wes3527 I was just using the deragotory term chinamen for Asians in general, because funnyS

​@@wes3527 Think he's part Korean

​​@@wes3527 we know. He said that bc, them dam Chinamin' be the squinty eyed ones.

I had to google it just to make sure i wasn't stupid... nope this dude is stupid.

I think he meant to say Rolex not Submariner Daytona 😂😂

​@@jessedavis7555 yea it's obvious that he clearly mixed up his words and misspoke. All these people picking on him for it seem to be using a form of virtue signaling to draw attention to themselves to point out their own knowledge because they're so socially inept that it is the only way they know of to do this. Sad really, all they would've had to do to better accomplish this without looking like a jack@$$ would be to politely point out the mistake, for example ("Did anybody else notice he named a watch that doesn't exist?😂") but that would require better social skills lol

@@remylebeau2357 I guess it’s easier to say he doesn’t know anything about watches instead of just saying he got his words twisted.🤦🏼‍♂️ I agree with you Dude is a warrior not a robot. Take care

Dude is a killer not some rich twat who cares that much about stupid shit lmao

Antiseptic, not antibiotic.

God damn it 😂

What’s his full neme please

Shawn is asian..well half japanese anyway

Bingo

😂😂 submariner Daytona

I believe it’s a unicorn crossed with a leprechaun

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Yea. Stupid watches. Telling me the time and shit. Can just use a sundial

@@revhelvete Or look at a clock, a stove, a microwave, your phone, your car stereo, computer. Or I guess look at your $10000 watch

@@revhelvete Low IQ reply

@@ifacecamp717work harder and get a job. Maybe you could buy one then

That's not the point of these watches. They are the man's last and only fashion accessory. Rolexes also appreciates in value pretty ridiculously. In some cases, depending on the model, even much better than gold. Rolexes from the 1980s retailed for $925 USD. Those same watches now sell for $8- $10K. These are heirlooms that are passed down from generation to generation after you've worn them. A Rolex will outlive you, your son, and your son's son. It's a small token that your son can remember you by when you pass it down to him. A watch that you wore everyday to work, used it in all your travels, in house projects, etc. When you pass, your son or daughter gets it. He or she wears it for the rest of their life and when they look down at their wrist, it provides a bit of a reflection period for them. This is the case for later descadants of your family as well. Four generations from now, with adjustment to inflation, that $10k watch will be worth $60-70k; easily. History repeats itself. It's exactly what's happened with Rolex since the early 70s. These are obviously NOT purchased to tell the time. That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Why would you spend 10k to tell the time. 😂 Ridiculous.

Why are you putting this on all his clips?

@@hereforthecomments456 because the world needs to know who this guy truly is. Selling our military’s secrets and training to overseas adversaries like Chinese soldiers? He pretends to be a samurai or whatever but is from Vietnam? If you ask him about it he blocks you. Why are you defending an untruthful man?

​@bigboi9877 he trained the Chinese Spec ops guy here I think. Even worse, lol.

@@SemperFi_EDC_Guy thats exactly right before youtube deleted my comment. Good job man. He claims to be a samurai or whatever but is from Vietnam. If you ask him about it he blocks you

Training foreign adversaries on our military’s tactics and training who go back to china and make the enemy stronger. He literally sells our secrets to the enemy and should be prosecuted for it because it violates ITAR and a whole slew of other laws.

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