This one just arrived for a bit under 500

 

arrived last week not without it's problems second hand will need replace nice wee job for a Sunday afternoon.

 

Thanks. It was around 300$ not 400$ btw. I wrote wrong number.

So that's even better

 

Not a wristwatch but well under 500!!!

 

Around $300, but with crappy white/black pics, where I could not see, if it is a redial or not (but from a collector, who told me, that it was over 40 years in family).
Spend another $250 in a Omega BoR and another $450 for an Omega certified watchmaker (he has had the original golden hands in stock, he wanted to use them for his own Omega 2848!):




Nice Omega 2848 gilt dial.

 

speedy pro. seller asked 800 and gave me a discount as watch was broken . still have it.

 

Sounds like the deal of the decade, but we need photographic evidence.

 

163$

Got it for the cal. 601 movement to a project, but i guess it is to good to scrap for parts

Omega Genéve ref. 135.070, cal. 601 from 1969, cleaned it and got an Omega strap on it.

 

I hate when that happens
I have purchased so many turntables for their parts, only to end up restoring them-acquiring new parts for them, then the original project still goes unfinished....it’s a problem

 

Ref. 2691, acquired last month.

 

I think I am seriously in love with the watch in the initial post in this thread. Anyone have a bead on where I can find that model with that dial?

 

A friend of mine who collects and deals in ceramics constantly bemoans the state of watches I buy. According to him, I won't look at anything that doesn't seem to have spent the last two decades buried in someone's garden. Just to prove him right, I bought this yesterday:

Circa 1958, the poor thing's filthy with a worn rotor bearing ... but beneath that lurks a little peach. I promise that after a service and a good clean, the watch will be unrecognisable ... and oozing wabi sabi. Did you see that naiad crown?

 

I love your enthusiasm. To me, the patina is a little past the point of pretty. Will you address that or leave it be?

 

We'll see when it's taken to pieces. It looks better in person than in the photos with even mottling and those dots in the laquer are less visible.

 

That’s not patina, it’s the Jonas Salk commorative edition celebrating the polio vaccine.

 

We have the technology ... we can rebuild him. One day, I'll gather together a bunch of before and after photos of the many watches that have passed through my hands. I genuinely love breathing life back into these things.

 

A friend of mine who is workbench talented (read-not a watchmaker) did the lemon juice trick on a lady Seamaster dial that was almost dark orange and barely readable. Aside of the loss of lume, it came out like a gleaming jewel. I had him do it on deville I got that was similar...not so lucky- text all floated off the dial in big chunks. I texted while he was doing it asking how it was going and didn’t hear from him for over 24 hours....he was freaking out. I could visualize what was happening...oh that looking good...wait...oh shit, oh shit....

 

if memory serves me well, this one came very close to the OP’s mark...

 

I've never tried lemon juice? Perhaps this dial would be the one to experiment with, given its condition, but I genuinely do like it.

 

Where did you find that beauty for 400 usd ??