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·I offer the following as an opinion – I may be wrong. I offer it for general interest – and also for anybody considering buying this car clock.
Currently offered on eBay (number 296568738005) and described as being a
“RARE VINTAGE OMEGA ORA ESATTA DESK CLOCK MANUAL WIND”
The price is $4000 (or best offer!)
As we find in Omega’s book ‘A Journey Through Time’, ‘cabinets’ were produced for chronometers. But these were high-quality products – and fitted with chronometers! The following from AJTT pp. 170 & 171:
Above is another example, in this case a 20’’’DDR (chronometer).
The watch advertised is a 27’’’8-Day ‘Goliath’ which was a good product and served as Omega’s ‘big’ calibre for nearly 30 years – but it wasn’t a chronometer! In this case it was a car clock. The watch dates 1917.
My suspicion is that the Ora Esatta box may be original – but the piece of wood on which the car clock is mounted in not – and the car clock was not the original chronometer!
I am not accusing the seller of any tricky business – he may not be aware himself. Both items are over 100 years old and who knows what has happened in that time?
But if I were to spend $4000 on this car clock, I’d want a good car to go with it.
Currently offered on eBay (number 296568738005) and described as being a
“RARE VINTAGE OMEGA ORA ESATTA DESK CLOCK MANUAL WIND”
The price is $4000 (or best offer!)
As we find in Omega’s book ‘A Journey Through Time’, ‘cabinets’ were produced for chronometers. But these were high-quality products – and fitted with chronometers! The following from AJTT pp. 170 & 171:
Above is another example, in this case a 20’’’DDR (chronometer).
The watch advertised is a 27’’’8-Day ‘Goliath’ which was a good product and served as Omega’s ‘big’ calibre for nearly 30 years – but it wasn’t a chronometer! In this case it was a car clock. The watch dates 1917.
My suspicion is that the Ora Esatta box may be original – but the piece of wood on which the car clock is mounted in not – and the car clock was not the original chronometer!
I am not accusing the seller of any tricky business – he may not be aware himself. Both items are over 100 years old and who knows what has happened in that time?
But if I were to spend $4000 on this car clock, I’d want a good car to go with it.
