They paid a lot of money for that COA, $800 or so from memory to be told the watch is in effect a Franken or at least not as it left the factory. Ouch!
I wonder if they went down the COA route when an initial extract request was refused as the serial doesn’t match the watch.
They could have gotten the same information with an extract rejection at much lower cost.
Some people are impressed with a document in a nice folder, they might gloss over the fact that the movement is not original. Or just don't care.
Anyone else think the wording of the COA is worth discussion? They say the movement has been ‘exchanged for a version which predates the moon landing’. How very flowery! What does that mean exactly? The watch was produced before July 1969 so the moon landing is irrelevant. Is this just a sugar coated way of admitting the current movement is from a Seamaster or whatever or are they trying to make some other point like “yes it’s been swapped but at least its a very early 861”
I wonder how much input the current owner had into the wording. It’s does sound like they are massaging the truth rather.
