Seller thinks his Ultraman is $19,000 better than the one sold at Phillips for $76,000 because he has the original band...

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Dude! 95k? Things have become extremely nutty in the Speedmaster world. And 76k without a bracelet, is still...nutty.

 

That watch in that condition is hardly worth $9500. How can he prove that is the original bracelet?

 

Interesting...

 

WOW! I put my bracelets in the safe now

 

Has to be the original. They were polished by the same hand...

 

Totally insane!!

 

Lol. There are some weird guys out there hahaha

 

ROFL

 

I know Faz...nutty maybe, but if only the value of our vintage Les Pauls, 335s, Stratocasters or Byrdlands would go up that "nutty"???

 

I’m glad I’m keeping my 1039/516 safe. Didn’t know it costs more than my 145.012-67 LOL!

 

Were you around in 2006/7?

 

Dial & hands on that Ultraguy looks REALLY tired....

 

Least of its problems...

 

Oh my god... I have a little story to tell:

Believe it or not... in 2007 I bought a Speedmaster from Finland for about 1500 €. The S/N was really really close to the Ultraman offered via the bay in the above link. It came in a pretty worn condition and was fitted with a DNN bezel and a strange orange sweep second hand... without a doubt both not original to the watch... I thought!!!
So I decided to give it to my watchmaker for fitting a "correct" teardrop counterweight sweep second hand. When picking it up again the watchmaker asked me what to do with that ugly orange second hand and I told him to throw it away because its condition was not good enough to sell... so he did. A few month later I sold the watch for about 2500€... and was very happy... at that time.

So unknowingly and foolishly:
a) I sold an ultra rare Ultraman for a way too low price...
b) worse, I serviced an ultra rare Ultraman beyond reconstruction...
c) worst, I destroyed an ultra rare Ultraman sweep second hand worth thousands of dollars

Aaaaaargh... life can be hard

 

Yes??? What did I miss?

 

At least you didn’t loose money

 

oh Gosh, I heard many stories about underevaluating watches, but this is really on top of the list

 

Wow, that is one painful story. Do you perhaps have any pictures of the watch in question?