A lot of the case & bezel edges have been rounded by polishing. It isn't terrible, but worth more than half of the starting bid.
2499 Centenry Looks decent but pics aren't the best. http://www.ebay.com/itm/18K-Vintage...029787868?pt=Wristwatches&hash=item43c2ba24dcPurchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network
This auction is over in a couple of hours. I wasn't going to ask, but why not... what's this likely to go for and what's the most I should bid?
My concern is with the movement...different colors in the movement, thoughts? This guy lives 40 Minutes from me, if there was more time I would go look at it and try to buy directly, still might try to contact him.
Hijak, I was thinking the same thing. I'm only an hour or so away. I don't like to feel rushed on these deals. I tell my kids that a good idea today is a good idea tomorrow. This is definitely one that warrants a cool head.. I am speaking of the centenary, not the sparkly. I am not a C case afficianado.
Buck, you should know from seeing what happens here that "a good watch today is somebody else's watch tomorrow".
I agree Buck, and I hope you don't mind if I borrow your sage advice for my young one, a good idea today is a good idea tomorrow, I like that a lot!
Or the flip side of this is, that thought to be cool watch today is not my shitty watch tomorrow...This watch has some red flags I think. Personally with this one I'd like to put an eyeball on it before dropping that kind of cash.
Fair enough - it's a good idea to get a second opinion. But if you know it's the real deal, jump on it.
I think they were talking about the Centenary. The Sparkle looked good to me, it went for what it should have. Personally I would have bid up to $550 since it was a nice example!
Sorry we are talking about the centenary.......hope it doesn't interfere with your bid intention. The sparkle looks good to me.
My oldest sage business advice is from one of my dad's partners: "There's no such thing as a one-of-a-kind good deal". Obviously that's not literally true but it's served me well for the last 40 years.
Not valid where vintage watches are concerned, IMO. I can give you several examples where I hesitated to my persistent regret years later (and a few where I pounced, too!)
A pink gold Flagship with a manual wind 30 series still haunts me. It sold for $735-ish, when I had bid $720-ish. I was trying to steal it and learned a valuable lesson that day: money is easier to replace than a primo vintage watch. Haven't seen one to rival that watch since.
"Buck, you should know from seeing what happens here that "a good watch today is somebody else's watch tomorrow". Sorry, my "reply w/ quote" arrow doesn't work yet on IE11, Trev's working on it. Dennis, You are totally right but unfortunately "a bad watch today is somebody else's tomorrow" is often true also. Anybody here get it ??
I have been lurking here for awhile, and have been desiring a vintage omega for awhile. Thanks to all your advice I decided to put bid in for sparkly. I have been outbid often, thinking I would enter true bid at last second. So I entered most I wanted to pay (thinking j would get outbid again) only to be surprise winner!