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路For sale (no trades, please) in the Continental US only. Shipping is on me; watch and I are in Annapolis, Maryland and I also welcome F2F transactions in the greater Baltimore/DC area.
I have positive feedback here (1, 2, 3) and heaps more on eBay; a Navy employee, a family man---you can trust me. And I can call in an air-strike if you try to con me. 馃榾
About the watch:
Full Set
Case: Stainless Steel
Case diameter: 41 mm
Dial color: Green
Between lugs: 20 mm
Crystal: Domed scratch鈥憆esistant sapphire crystal with anti鈥憆eflective treatment on both sides
Water resistance: 15 bar (150 metres / 500 feet)
Movement type: Calibre 8900 Self winding
Power Reserve: 60 hours
Antimagnetic: to more than 15,000 gauss
Bracelet: Stainless Steel double-deployant concealed clasp; all original links included
I have to comment on the dial of this watch: it's glorious and the pictures don't do it justice. (Is it any wonder that Patek "borrowed" the concept?) In brighter lighting, the green pops, vibrantly. In lower lighting, it's a deep, rich gray or even black. The horizontal teak patterning with its varied striations and the elevated white gold indices make for wonderful depth, and with the date at 6 o'clock, the overall appearance is one of elegant balance. This watch is understated enough to be an everyday piece, yet also special enough to be a one-watch collection.
The watch is still under OMEGA's warranty, the card dated 4/2019. All original packaging and cards, including chronometer certification and pictograms.
This is an incredibly comfortable and accurate watch in perfect working order. I am selling because I'm funding another purchase (you know how that goes) and because I'm finding that my smallish wrist can't support 41mm. --Which is a bummer as that seems to be how most of the cool watches are sized these days.
Note that the originally-polished center links on the bracelet have been brushed. I much prefer this as it mutes the blinginess of the watch and makes it sportier, but it's easy enough to have a jeweler undo that (or let OMEGA do it during a service) if you want.
The watch has been worn in rotation and has the hairlines and desk-diver scratches you'd expect--it's not a safe-queen. Overall I'd say cosmetic condition is... 8/10? Please look at the pictures carefully, request any others you might want, and ask questions! I have nothing to hide, and consider the photos part of the description. Also note that I used a super-bright (1,000 lumen) LED flashlight when taking the pictures in order to emphasize the scratches as best I could: I want you to buy the watch and be pleasantly rather than unpleasantly surprised. So the images make the scratches seem much harsher than they are to the naked eye. Looking at it on my wrist in normal indoor light, it looks great.
Functionally, the watch is perfect, keeping seconds-per-day accuracy--it's a modern OMEGA, after all. As with most 8900s (as well documented here on OF) manually winding the watch is not for the weak-fingered, but that's as it's supposed to be for a double-barrel movement with a long power reserve. This watch shouldn't need a service for a long while.
$4,000 net to me (dropped to $3400)---PayPal or Venmo (we can sort out these details via PM). That price includes the cost of insured shipping within the CONUS.
No returns unless grossly misdescribed, and it isn't---I'm being honest to the point of self-sabotage here. The watch is in great shape. Anyway, I'm a private individual, not a watch store, so no tire-kickers here.
This is priced to sell---I don't think you'll find another example at this price-point---so I'm not open to offers at this time. If it sits for a while, I may bump it down or look to one of the web's many preowned powerhouses, but I'd much rather sell to an OFer. (The least expensive green-dial AT on a bracelet that I can find is $4,600, and that's in Japan.)
I have positive feedback here (1, 2, 3) and heaps more on eBay; a Navy employee, a family man---you can trust me. And I can call in an air-strike if you try to con me. 馃榾
About the watch:
Full Set
Case: Stainless Steel
Case diameter: 41 mm
Dial color: Green
Between lugs: 20 mm
Crystal: Domed scratch鈥憆esistant sapphire crystal with anti鈥憆eflective treatment on both sides
Water resistance: 15 bar (150 metres / 500 feet)
Movement type: Calibre 8900 Self winding
Power Reserve: 60 hours
Antimagnetic: to more than 15,000 gauss
Bracelet: Stainless Steel double-deployant concealed clasp; all original links included
I have to comment on the dial of this watch: it's glorious and the pictures don't do it justice. (Is it any wonder that Patek "borrowed" the concept?) In brighter lighting, the green pops, vibrantly. In lower lighting, it's a deep, rich gray or even black. The horizontal teak patterning with its varied striations and the elevated white gold indices make for wonderful depth, and with the date at 6 o'clock, the overall appearance is one of elegant balance. This watch is understated enough to be an everyday piece, yet also special enough to be a one-watch collection.
The watch is still under OMEGA's warranty, the card dated 4/2019. All original packaging and cards, including chronometer certification and pictograms.
This is an incredibly comfortable and accurate watch in perfect working order. I am selling because I'm funding another purchase (you know how that goes) and because I'm finding that my smallish wrist can't support 41mm. --Which is a bummer as that seems to be how most of the cool watches are sized these days.
Note that the originally-polished center links on the bracelet have been brushed. I much prefer this as it mutes the blinginess of the watch and makes it sportier, but it's easy enough to have a jeweler undo that (or let OMEGA do it during a service) if you want.
The watch has been worn in rotation and has the hairlines and desk-diver scratches you'd expect--it's not a safe-queen. Overall I'd say cosmetic condition is... 8/10? Please look at the pictures carefully, request any others you might want, and ask questions! I have nothing to hide, and consider the photos part of the description. Also note that I used a super-bright (1,000 lumen) LED flashlight when taking the pictures in order to emphasize the scratches as best I could: I want you to buy the watch and be pleasantly rather than unpleasantly surprised. So the images make the scratches seem much harsher than they are to the naked eye. Looking at it on my wrist in normal indoor light, it looks great.
Functionally, the watch is perfect, keeping seconds-per-day accuracy--it's a modern OMEGA, after all. As with most 8900s (as well documented here on OF) manually winding the watch is not for the weak-fingered, but that's as it's supposed to be for a double-barrel movement with a long power reserve. This watch shouldn't need a service for a long while.
$4,000 net to me (dropped to $3400)---PayPal or Venmo (we can sort out these details via PM). That price includes the cost of insured shipping within the CONUS.
No returns unless grossly misdescribed, and it isn't---I'm being honest to the point of self-sabotage here. The watch is in great shape. Anyway, I'm a private individual, not a watch store, so no tire-kickers here.
This is priced to sell---I don't think you'll find another example at this price-point---so I'm not open to offers at this time. If it sits for a while, I may bump it down or look to one of the web's many preowned powerhouses, but I'd much rather sell to an OFer. (The least expensive green-dial AT on a bracelet that I can find is $4,600, and that's in Japan.)
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