Well the the good news is that the watch has now fully settled down and is keeping perfect time with no slips for a couple of days. Must have just been a bedding in thing with it starting up again after sitting dormant for a while. So yay
I hate to be the "new guy" arguing with the "old guy" but... I'm going to do it anyway
You're wrong here and I think you are confusing "worth" to a hobbyist with "market value". By definition the watch is worth whatever I paid for it by simple virtue of the fact I paid it! Had I bought it in a shop or from a classified ad you might have a point but it was an open auction with multiple bidders and even if I hadn't paid what I did the final price would have been within a few percentage points - there were 36 bids after all. eBay has many flaws but one thing is is exceptional at is determining true market value because it puts an almost unlimited number of customers in front of your goods and allows them to bid freely. If your item sells for £3 that's market value. If it sells for £3,000 then that's what it's worth. While it's not static on that day in that market that watch was worth the £300 or whatever that I paid. And looking at Chrono24 and the closed auctions on eBay I'm not sure that many watches go for "significantly less"
Now that's a very different thing to what a hobbyist might think its "worth". No doubt with the right detective work, mooching on the right online ad boards, making contacts with others and working those contacts I'm sure I could have got a watch that had a serial number inside the case that matched and a dial that hadn't been refinished and saved myself a hundred quid or whatever. And I'm sure for a lot of people that's a lot of fun. Me? I just wanted a nice watch below a certain price point and this one ticked the boxes. And I reckon in a year or so I'll be able to sell it at roughly the same price to someone else who just wants a nice watch. I get the originality argument but it's not important to everyone.
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