Has anyone ever seen a Compax with this low of a case number? It's a few tens of thousands lower than I have ever seen.
Do we think this dial is original to the case? Everyone remembers the 22410 fiasco https://omegaforums.net/threads/universal-geneve-“prototype”-compax.53198/ Do we know any more than we did earlier this year about which cases these dials belong in?
I beleive these kind of dials were protptypes dials meant for gold cases. BUT I have only seen them mounted on Spillman steel cases. Hard to say, also becasue apparently they came into 2 different sizes some one saying that smaller ones were meant for gold cases but the bigger ones for steel water proof ones....hard to say if this is true or not)
While I agree much of the pricing to “us” is on the high side, I don’t think there’s any reason for them to not ask those prices. If someone is willing to pay those prices, then common sense tells you you should be setting those prices.The only risk they have is when their customers attempt to resell the watch after a year or two, and realize it’s only worth maybe 2/3 of the value... but at the same time in 1-2 years the watch could very well be worth 30% more from where it is today, so all’s well. And if in that resale process their customers discover the dial is redone...? Well it’s easy for Bernardini to say ‘I’ll take it back for what you paid for it’. But how many of their clientele do that?
And in reply to some comments here... just because they can sell a watch for 15k eur doesn’t mean we can sell the same watch, in exact or maybe even better condition, for the same price. They’ve cultivated a set of clientele and built up some reputation over the past 10-15 years, which we haven't. That certainly has some monetary value that they’re attempting to capitalize here (whether it’s deserved is another question, but it certainly exists).
i find it interesting they don't have any of the more easily identifiable or provable frankens in the sale like a nina, evil nina, clapton etc. . .just the old ones where it takes real detective work to ferret out the answers
Here's an egregious forgery - Medico-Compax ref 12494. The Ref 12494 is a Compax reference, not a Medico-Compax reference, most of which went to the Brazilian armed forces (Exército Brasileiro or the Forca Aerea Brasileira, surely a flashy bunch with their gold timepieces). Sure enough, there is an Exército Brasileiro marking on the back ("E.B."). The Medico-Compax dial was from a batch available on line until last year. These have been turning up at various auctions, and I happen to have two spare dials in my drawer.
