Dude, that's wandolec, the most rootin' tootin' watch faker in aaaaaall the Ukraine!

The movement is a real vintage Omega, the rest is fabrication.
That chance that that is authentic is ZERO!

 

The first clue is the word "Ukraine"...

Actually, he's pretty upfront in saying it's an old movement put onto a brand new case and dial. The case & dial are definitely not made by Omega - he says so.

 

By golly, you're right! Since when did wandolec go legit...kinda...not really?

 

Ah...well...a guy who runs an automotive chop shop has a certain skill, but it is in a different order of magnitude from that of the guy who does top-flight vintage car restoration. I'd say the Ukrainians have a ways to go in skill alone (although I admit, their stuff is less amateurish than it was 4-5 years ago), and could use a hefty dose of moral fiber and ethics as well.

 

Well, if you don't know what you're buying, then all the feedback really means is that the piece of junk you ordered got to you in a timely fashion, looks more or less like in the sales listing and runs. It's not as if the scales fall from the buyer's eyes upon opening the package. Positive feedback has a pretty low threshold. Unfortunately, there's no "authenticity" component, and there's probably thousands of buyers on Ebay who wouldn't know authentic if it bit them on the nose.

I'm sure you've seen what people wear these days for watches - huge, violently colored, shiny things that hang from their wrists like house-arrest bracelets. Compared to those, some of the Ukrainian product looks positively refined and graceful. To many of the buyers, it probably looks perfectly plausible for vintage.

As an aside, for those who know him, I was taken aback to see John from down in the Bowery, an otherwise standup and decent vintage watch dealer, selling a few of these at his shop when I was last there a couple of months ago. I guess he's just accepted that there is a market for them. Sad.