My find of my life!! 30 minute beach hunt turns up very expensive watch.

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Deadshot

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Decided to hit the beach for a few minutes tonight just to get out and play with my new DFX. I tossed on the head lamp (yes it is very dark out there) and fired my machine. Adjusted my beach program so that the back light was on and went to hunting.

Not expecting too much I just sorta zig zagged down the dry sand. After about 15 minutes of finding sand and more sand I decided to run back to the car and get my 5.3 inch coil and poke around a few of the old fire pits. The first one I hit produced about 5 soda cans all in different forms of melted and six clad cents. The next pit started was a bust, nothing but melted cans.

As I was heading off to find another pit down the beach I heard a LOUD high tone ring in my head phones. After taking a step back I swung the coil back over the area that had just sounded off. It was filled with targets! I quickly started to dig all the targets as I separated them. Quarter, Quarter, Dime, Quarter............more and more and more (these are my favorite spots) after about 15 coins things started slowing down a bit so I decided to grid off a 10' square around where the coins were and make sure it was cleared out. I covered about half of the square only finding a couple more coins. As I was just about done with one pass over the square I got a strong signal on the edge of my square. Being that I was digging so many coins I didn't even look at the screen thinking that it was just another quarter. Well I was pleasantly surprised when the "quarter" turned out the be a heavy watch. Sweet I thought, my first real watch from MDing. I tossed it in my pouch and continued hunting.

When I finished the square I had a total of 12 quarters, 8 Dimes, 10 Nickels, and 3 Pennies. It was getting a bit cold so I packed up the gear and headed home. I got home and jumped in the shower trying to remove the sand from all those places it likes to get. When I got out my Wife asked what I had found. I relayed the story about the nice little pocket dump I had found and about the watch. Not recognizing the name on it I hoped on the net to check it out. Well I was ecstatic with what I found out to say the least.

The watch is made by a company called Breitling. It is a swiss company that makes VERY expensive watches. I have sent a email to the USA based part of the company to see if they can help me with authentication and some info on it, as it is a model that is out of production now. The few that I can find from past ebay auctions of similar watches look to be valued from around $1800 - $3000!!!!! I guess now I just ask you to all cross your fingers for me hoping it is real.'

Tomorrow I am going to call the police department to see if there are any lost and found claims for it and also look in the papers.

Sorry the pictures are not the best,

Deadshot
 

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birdman

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Super nice!!
 

ashleen

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Deadshot said:
$1800 - $3000!!!!! I guess now I just ask you to all cross your fingers for me hoping it is real.'

Deadshot

WTG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fingers crossed...
eyes crossed even !
(~.~)
 

Gigisdiamonds

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;D WTG!!! Hey I know just how you feel finding that WOW find! It would be awfully hard to give up! I just want you to know, how very much I respect your trying to find the owner! Talk about a big heart! Your wife has a found a good man! ;D
I do believe you have the real thing! I don't think you will be finding they did a fake of this watch ...however you never know. ::) There are plenty of people willing to make a buck, by faking something like a good watch. I will say a prayer that if you are to find the owner you do and if not that all works out well !

HH
Gigi ;)
 

Bavaria Mike

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Congrats on the great find, hope you get to keep it! HH, Mike
 

lonewolfe

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Nice watch find,

hh

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Monty

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Excellent! I'm almost positive your watch is genuine. Just from looking at the photos you can tell it isn't a cheap imitation. When I was heading up the fraud investigations at the PD I use to see cheap Mexican imitation watches all the time. Once confiscated a whole case of "Rolox" watches that were being sold for fifty bucks. Suspect was telling suckers it was a Rolex valued at $6,000.00! You could pick them up in Mexico for about $1.50 each! Yours is definately not one of those! JIM
 

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How deep was the watch? DId it still have the time? Very nice find. That's the best free watch I've seen.



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msentme

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Great find!!!! I bought a similar watch a few years ago. Most Breitling owners register their watches when they purchase them. If you contact the company, they will probably have the original owner on file. Congratulations again.
 

Nana40

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Wow Shot! Congrats on your finds!!! That's a great looking watch!!!

;)
 

Leon

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Very nice, WTG!!!
It's a nice thing your doing by trying to find the owner as well...
Good luck & Happy hunting~
 

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Nice find!! I hope it is real!! Some of the Japanese and Swiss replicas are so good you can't tell the difference until you pop the case! Good luck!!! Happy Hunting!!
 

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Deadshot

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Well, so far no luck on finding a owner. The local Law has no reports of a lost watch and there is nothing in the last few months papers. I am still waiting on a email from the company to see if it is registered.

Kermit said:
How deep was the watch? DId it still have the time?

It was about 5 inches deep, and yes it still has the time. I do not think that it has been lost to terribly long. This kind of watch winds as you wear it I believe. So to keep it going all you have to do is wear it and then as you move through out the day it winds itself.


I will continue looking for the owner, but if things keep going the way they are I am going to have to find out where to buy links for the band (It is a little small for me :( )

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Great find! Nice of you to try and find the owner!!!
good luck and i hope you get to keep it.
 

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Wow that is an excellent find! Congrats! Much respect for you trying to find the owner as well, very cool! I do hope you get to keep it. Save some of those cool finds for when I get out there ;)

-Mike
 

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