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Advice regarding purchase (authentication and valuation) Speedmaster

dsio
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Bracelet is a replacement, do you have movement photos? for values I’d check Speedmaster101 and say its in good condition but with the less valuable bracelet and the movement needs to be in good condition an in the correct serial range to match up.
 
Dash1
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Good advice from Ash above. I would only add that most of the lume seems to be missing, so you need to be happy with the way that looks or happy with a re lume.
 
Spacefruit
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Does anything strike me as odd?

No. It’s a possibly mostly original head with condition issues, on the wrong bracelet for the reference.

It is not odd.

I suspect that’s not really the information you are after.
😀

Watches at this level are all about the price.

At $5,000 everyone reading this would buy it.
At $15,000 no one will.

So we are looking at a watch with issues, and you have to decide if you can live with the issues for the price you pay.

It has a lovely bezel. A fair dial.
 
RKA
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Then I gather that the seller's asking price of 10.400 USD is in the middle of that estimate, or is it rather steep? /RKA
 
Dan S
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The dial is a major condition problem. I would have to view it as a project watch, and a candidate for a replacement dial or a re-lume.
 
RKA
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Fair enough. I'll pass on this one. I have the money and the time to wait for something better.

Thank you for your time.
 
watchyouwant
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Offer 9500. That dial is easy to relume. Not expensive at all. Good luck ! Kind regards. Achim
 
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