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  1. alam Feb 27, 2015

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  2. oddboy Zero to Grail+2998 In Six Months Feb 27, 2015

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    buy it!
     
  3. cicindela Steve @ ΩF Staff Member Feb 27, 2015

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    Interesting piece, I have a couple like it. It is an older antique, perhaps turn of 20th century. Collectable. Not as matching as the mid century ones that the Omega cavalli/hippocampus were based on but a hippocampus none the less. Certainly worth the asking but with these you can get bargains or over pay. Prices are often over the top, like optimistic vintage watch sellers.

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/PAIR-OF-VEN...102?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19fc336166Purchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network

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    Here are some of mine , I have about ten of them, but I had to stop collecting.............I was under orders :rolleyes:

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  4. KIMBER Feb 27, 2015

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    Nice set there.
     
  5. SeanO Feb 27, 2015

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    mount them on the wall like ducks?
     
  6. 250scr Feb 27, 2015

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    Never knew people would actually make something like those. And definitely wouldn't think people would collect them. I have to stop looking at them or I might have to try buy one to see it in person.
     
  7. cicindela Steve @ ΩF Staff Member Feb 28, 2015

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    You have to understand that they were made for tie-downs on Gondolas; not for Omega, who stole the design.
    Here is a picture of Dennis (ulackfocus) in a gondola when I first met him, this is before he was really into watches
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    Here is how you make Cavalli.

    http://www.valese.it/eng-valese-products-gondola.html

     
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  8. micampe Feb 28, 2015

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    That's (very close) to home!

    Cavai used to come in different forms and with different decorations, as a "signature" of the family who owned that gondola.
     
  9. 250scr Feb 28, 2015

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    Ha. That is interesting on the Gondolas.
     
  10. cicindela Steve @ ΩF Staff Member Feb 28, 2015

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    Still do in many cases.
    $_cavalli57.jpg
     
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  11. alam Feb 28, 2015

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  12. cicindela Steve @ ΩF Staff Member Feb 28, 2015

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    No, just some of the many models made by Valese of Venezia.
     
  13. micampe Feb 28, 2015

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    yeah, I meant they are not family signs anymore, just decoration.
     
  14. cicindela Steve @ ΩF Staff Member Feb 28, 2015

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    Yes.
     
  15. alam Jan 4, 2016

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  17. alam Jan 11, 2016

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    I stumbled with this short video clip while backing up files as I prepare to migrate my remaining machine to OS X; taken a couple of years ago while diving off Cancun, Mexico - think is one of the largest specimens I have seen while diving.

     
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  18. watchknut New watch + Instagram + wife = dumbass Jan 11, 2016

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    @cicendela thanks for sharing this info...I had no idea. I am going to be on the lookout these now that I know what in the heck they are.

    My wife is going to love it when an 8lb package arrives on our doorstep in the coming months with yet another piece of random awesome.