Weekend RewindA Solid Gold Rolex Submariner Goes Deep

We're spending the last long weekend of summer underwater, and we invite you to jump in with us. All the way through Labor Day, we'll be filling the site with the best, most hard-core HODINKEE dive watch stories from the past 10 years. This is one.

Brett Gilliam reminds us that luxury and utility are not mutually exclusive. Here's a guy who took a watch many us wouldn't so much as hold under a running kitchen faucet and logged over 17,000 dives with it strapped to his wrist. For Gilliam, the watch was not an item meant to be stored away in a safe or delicately coddled. It was a tool of the trade. 

There's something inspiring, albeit recklessly so, about using an 18k gold dive watch in an actual dive setting.

Click here to read The Man With The Golden Sub.