Collector’s Story - A Dead Stock 1977 Omega Speedmaster Professional

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Robert-Jan

·Mar 20, 2018·#SpeedyTuesday

For this week’s Speedy Tuesday we have a cool story on how one of our reader’s bought a dead stock Omega Speedmaster Professional from 1977. Omega Speedmaster collector Alexander experienced something that a lot of us can only dream about: finding an unsold (and basically unused) vintage Speedmaster, complete with box and papers. Without further […]

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lillatroll

·Mar 20, 2018

Just read the full article. It has to be every collectors dream to find and own watch like this.

 

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kov

·Mar 20, 2018

Reminded me the story of my last year's dead stock find : https://omegaforums.net/threads/not-just-a-birth-year-speedmaster.64873/#post-813857

A very cool story, congrats to the owner 👍

 

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Toishome

·Mar 20, 2018

Only if I had luck like this 🤦

 

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amanson

·Mar 20, 2018

Very cool!

 

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sat968

·Mar 20, 2018

I can only dream of finding a Speedmaster like this as my first Speedy. Almost makes me wish I didn’t see examples like this as I’ll have to settle for a lesser, mainstream example unless I had the patience to wait. Just don’t see that happening. 🙄

 

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dscoogs

·Mar 20, 2018

Very nice story, will happen to me some day

 

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rb10chris

·Mar 20, 2018

amazing! I don't know if I'd wear it either..

 

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rainking

·Mar 20, 2018

Amazing story and find, but the writer/owner of that watch needs a better editor! Why do I say that? Because there is a fairly significant part of this tale not explained in the story. It goes from a colleague inviting him to see the watch to boom, he's the owner of the watch. How did that go down? Or was it known from the outset that the colleague was offering it to him for sale, and they had agreed upon a price? Or was there a big negotiation? And what was the price for something like this, however the sale came about? Enquiring minds want to know.

 

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jets

·Mar 20, 2018

U n b e l i e v a b l e .

 

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Robert-Jan

·Mar 20, 2018·#SpeedyTuesday

rainking

Amazing story and find, but the writer/owner of that watch needs a better editor! Why do I say that? Because there is a fairly significant part of this tale not explained in the story. It goes from a colleague inviting him to see the watch to boom, he's the owner of the watch. How did that go down? Or was it known from the outset that the colleague was offering it to him for sale, and they had agreed upon a price? Or was there a big negotiation? And what was the price for something like this, however the sale came about? Enquiring minds want to know.

Has nothing to do with an editor, the current owner of the watch just did not disclose this in his(!) story. I suspect he does not want to disclose what he paid for the watch (7 years ago, so not very relevant today). He just bought the watch, that's probably part of his 'all you need to know' angle. 😀

 

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airansun

·Mar 20, 2018

I don’t think I could wear this watch, and I’m normally not reluctant to ‘consume’ the watches I buy by wearing them.

But this is just toooo good and I’d love to continue to say it’s been unworn. How many 70’s Speedmasters can be proven to have been entirely unworn?

Damn that’s a nice watch.

 

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rohnin

·Mar 20, 2018

If he wants to sell I want to buy

 

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77deluxe

·Mar 20, 2018

That is incredible. Once again, thanks for the great content.

 

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rainking

·Mar 20, 2018

Robert-Jan

Has nothing to do with an editor, the current owner of the watch just did not disclose this in his(!) story. I suspect he does not want to disclose what he paid for the watch (7 years ago, so not very relevant today). He just bought the watch, that's probably part of his 'all you need to know' angle. 😀

I'll respectfully disagree, but then again that's what I do for a living at a national U.S. magazine/website etc (edit, not disagree LOL). Totally understand it's just a reader's submission though and not a story written by a professional journalist, so you get what they send. If it were me, I would have gone back to him and asked, hey, if you don't want to disclose the price that is understandable, but can you tell me more about how you ended up getting the chance to purchase the watch, because the story goes from where you were just going to get to see it to suddenly you own it? I wouldn't expect that to be secret information. Not trying to give anyone at your website a hard time, just offering an observation that would make the tale even more interesting. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would find it so. Not a big deal either way.