Antiquorum Ultraman AKA Unrealistic Expectations

You need to tell Omega it’s an Ultraman and provide pictures for them to examine. It is worthless as an indicator of a genuine example. Omega forums will be a better judge.

I’m pretty sure they would have tried that approach and got nowhere, I haven’t seen a Ultraman archive that is out of range yet but haven’t been looking either.
Has anyone else seen a Ultraman archive outside the acceptable range?

I think you are probably right, but in my eyes that is irrelevant. I have seen several Ultraman archives given to watches with the wrong type of orange hand fitted, so if you have a good example with the correct orange hand, but out of ‘observed’ serial range surely you have just as much legitimate right to call it an Ultraman as the next watch?

(Quote): "The lots are sold “as is”, described to the best of our knowledge and cannot be returned. Once the online bid is placed by the bidder, it cannot be cancelled" 😲

"As is"!... "to the best of our knowledge"!!! 😲
😕 Well the big long hand that goes around fast looks orange enough???
😕 What could possibly be wrong? 😁

... at least Ultraman-ish 😉.

(It would be Banksy-style to color the second hand white as soon as the hammer has fallen.)

Of course there are going to be imposters, I think everyone was expecting that.
I would not buy an Ultraman without the correct hand, satin black dial or the archive in the correct serial range and stating orange hand.

I started seriously looking for and taking notes of watches falling into the serial range with white chrono hands attached a while ago so I could see if they appeared again with an orange hand but only found two in many months, I then quickly lost interest much preferring to sit back with a cup of coffee and a chocolate orange while staring at the ceiling.

Still though, there are not many of the Ultraman watches about with archives stating orange hand, (correct hand or not) still probably less than 100 with all the correct attributes (or not even).
Still not many around with orange hands in the correct serial range without archives either.

So I do not believe these are being knocked up left, right and center like some people would have everyone believe.
Even if someone started making fake orange hands with the correct length and putting them on watches in the correct serial range there still wouldn't be that many around.
Out of the 9999 watches in the serial range how many would have been Speedmasters I wonder? all? I'm not sure but how many of these still exist today anyway? and how many will fall into the wrong hands to be fitted with these fake hands? and how many will be convincing? and how many will not be known watches already in collections?

It will be interesting over the next 5 years to see where we are then, I think that will be the decider.

Cheers, Michael

Wrong thread...

Someone appears to have bid 50,000 chf for this

Just for the record, the last watch I bought ('68 Transitional), was a Craigslist ad purchased in a McDonalds parking lot. Not joking.

I wonder if Ultraman is in quotes intentionally in their listing





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Sold for CHF70k including buyer’s premium

I would not pay a cent over $54,000.00

Doesn’t make a lot of sense given recent results. It’s from Japan, maybe the actual watch from the movie?

Interesting outcome, it just begs the question> WTF?

I need to find these idio I mean investors, anyone know their contact details?

Wei Koh currently has three UM. Maybe he is trying to buy them all at any cost.