Local find. 1972 Willard. Underneath that beat up crystal appears to be an amazing dial. Running -2s/day @ an amplitude of 172潞 and 0.1ms beat error with no service history. Not bad for $800!
You got dibs if I want to off load it
I鈥檝e had a lot of good news lately and wanted to make a fun purchase in way of celebrating. My first watch purchase of the year happens to be my first Super Compressor. This one from the 70鈥檚 and I love the styling of it. It鈥檚 also coming with a vintage tropic strap. Really looking forward to this one arriving.
That thing looks awesome! It also looks like it's been hiding in a safe for 50 years.
Congrats on your good news!
Random question: does the red lume on the second react to UV at all? Or is it just painted red? I always love with colored, vintage lume survives.
Wish I hadn't. Long time seller with 100% positive feedback and crappy photos. First time it didn't work out for me. If anybody has a dial for sale let me know 馃榿
Random question: does the red lume on the second react to UV at all? Or is it just painted red? I always love when colored, vintage lume survives.
I鈥檝e had a lot of good news lately and wanted to make a fun purchase in way of celebrating. My first watch purchase of the year happens to be my first Super Compressor. This one from the 70鈥檚 and I love the styling of it. It鈥檚 also coming with a vintage tropic strap. Really looking forward to this one arriving.
I know the seller of this watch. Nice pickup.
Looks not to bad, are you sure it's not just the lens letting the dial appearance down?
Matt black dials can be tricky especially in harsh lighting, from your image it looks like possibly some fading in the upper segment.
I bought a similar looking watch 2 weeks ago and what I thought was dial damage was actually a discoloration of the lens on the dial side between 10 and 12 or X and XII.
