This full page black and white print ad for the Rolex Oyster Perpetual wristwatch tells the harrowing story of a young flight lieutenant who who lost his Rolex Perpetual after his Typhoon airplane crashed  in the South of England in 1945. Four years later it was found -unharmed- buried in the ground by a man digging his garden. The ad appeared in Life International in 1952, as part of a series.. It is the original page from the magazine.