Come on, who is buying these

Another of these monstrosities has sold for an astronomical sum - £990 (c.$1320 US).

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20498824...aMjpz0rSAy&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY


Who is consistently buying these? I’d love to say it’s the shill and I’m sure there’s an element of that, but I also think a good number sell to genuine buyers for very strong prices.
These seem to be the product of a single or small number of UK dealers, I don’t recall seeing any in the US.

For those unaware, no Omega ever looked remotely like this, and the watch for sale certainly never looked like this. The design of this repainted dial is absurd. It combines pretty much every popular dial element across several decades all thrown together and mashed up into one horrible dial.

The seller notes in the fine print the dial is restored which is a term I hate for these dials as it’s a way of suggesting the dial isn’t original without saying it’s a complete comedy redial. The word restoration implies work has been done to remove the effects and degradation associated with ageing, to revert back to how this dial looked at some point in the past. Well at no point in this watches past did it look like this abomination. It was almost certainly a clean, elegant white or silver dial made in Switzerland rather than the half arsed design we see now which looks more like it was made by Wayne in Woking, designed on the back of an issue of Razzle on his lunch hour, using PowerPoint 98.

A lot of uncles buy these as gifts for new members who just want to know what they’re worth, but don’t want to sell them.

Poorly executed misappropriations exist across many forms of art and industry.

Unfortunately this is just a sad fact of life. Caveat emptor!

I find it amazing that nobody in this pool of “experts” has ever seen the legendary Searnaster. I’ve seen it talked about several times on this site (I think it was in some threads about dials with amazing finishes or nightmares or something)- which means they have to be real…and clearly very valuable. If you see it on the internet (and don’t actually read and do any research) it must be true!

How about this?

The real question is what kind of profiteering jackasses with no respect for the Omega brand would willingly sell this junk to unsuspecting buyers?

That’s a new on on me!

Remember these?



People bought them by the thousands. Hundreds of thousands, actually. Roughly 800k sold worldwide, including 150k in the US.

Goes to show that there's a market for everything. And a sucker born every minute.

Remember them well, always in the same breathe with Hyundai- but we see how that company rose to their current status.
The fact remains though that there will always be a market for affordable transportation and $25k+ isn’t “affordable” for many. Public transit is a joke in the US outside a handful of major metro areas- so not many options for some (and used is always a gamble as we know in the watch world).

That’s exactly what it is. Given the state of the movements on most of these, along with the highly polished cases, I’m certain the vast majority are absolute junkers that have had the scratches polished out, the fantasy redial added and a cheap movement service to get them going again.

There are plenty of people into watches that lack a moral compass. Just go to a watch show. I get: "I'm a member of the NAWCC" - Like this lends to your credibility???

A minor point but these are usually badly executed fantasy redials not fakes. The basis for the watch is normally a real Omega, they aren’t made from scratch. It doesn’t take much research to spot these, they are almost caricatures of actual designs with a pinch of Railmaster and pumpkin faux radium lume.