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·Yesterday on ebay, a gentleman listed his original-owner vintage Speedy, for which I offered a good buy it now price and he accepted. A few hours later, he cancelled the sale and wrote apologetically; since the sale, he'd gone to a watchmaker and had the caseback removed, revealing some moisture ingress. While there was some light rust, it didn't look bad enough to deter me, and we agreed to a sale price of $2500 and he listed it this morning at 9.
I bought it again, and, half hour later, the seller wrote saying he'd received an offer for more and asking if I'd come up in price. I told him to feel free to sell to the higher bidder (it sold for $2850), mostly because something kept eating at me.
The photos show a fairly nice step-dialed 145.022; I suspect it'd be a -71, and the case looks fantastic, ditto the bracelet. However, the serial number's 27M, which means the movement itself should be in a -68. My question for the folks here is: have you seen something like this before? The only explanation I can get my head around is that the owner somehow *really* trashed the original case, and he sent it back to Omega, who essentially reused the movement and used it in a -71 case. If this happened, I'd be amazed--I haven't heard of it before, and, presumably, if the owner had damaged the case enough to require that sort of work, the movement would've been wrecked, too.
Anyway: I'm just fascinated. I'd love to hear anyone's theories on this; the seller, when I asked him about this, didn't response, so I've no idea what to think, nor how much he knows. The listing does note *It was serviced by the initial shop that I bought it at to replace the glass since it was scratched and at that time I was told that it needed inside cleaning also, so it was sent out to Omega for that.* Thus it can be assumed that the water damage happened after the 'cleaning' which was done around late 70's or early 80's.
I sincerely hope someone here managed to pick this watch up, *whatever* it is. Would love to hear anyone's ideas about how this came to be. Maybe it's just a franken, and I'm overthinking it.
I bought it again, and, half hour later, the seller wrote saying he'd received an offer for more and asking if I'd come up in price. I told him to feel free to sell to the higher bidder (it sold for $2850), mostly because something kept eating at me.
The photos show a fairly nice step-dialed 145.022; I suspect it'd be a -71, and the case looks fantastic, ditto the bracelet. However, the serial number's 27M, which means the movement itself should be in a -68. My question for the folks here is: have you seen something like this before? The only explanation I can get my head around is that the owner somehow *really* trashed the original case, and he sent it back to Omega, who essentially reused the movement and used it in a -71 case. If this happened, I'd be amazed--I haven't heard of it before, and, presumably, if the owner had damaged the case enough to require that sort of work, the movement would've been wrecked, too.
Anyway: I'm just fascinated. I'd love to hear anyone's theories on this; the seller, when I asked him about this, didn't response, so I've no idea what to think, nor how much he knows. The listing does note *It was serviced by the initial shop that I bought it at to replace the glass since it was scratched and at that time I was told that it needed inside cleaning also, so it was sent out to Omega for that.* Thus it can be assumed that the water damage happened after the 'cleaning' which was done around late 70's or early 80's.
I sincerely hope someone here managed to pick this watch up, *whatever* it is. Would love to hear anyone's ideas about how this came to be. Maybe it's just a franken, and I'm overthinking it.
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