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·- Their contact at the Omega Museum stated that there were around 100 SW A-11 examples produced.
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I have no reason to doubt them. What is strange to me is that there are so many available out of a batch of 100 produced. In the last year, I saw four for sale in Japan (two I bought, the first one sold when I found a nicer one.) Even if there were 300 like the MWO suggests, you'd think they'd be more scarce.
It'd be nice to see what info is available in the Omega archives and an explanation for how they determined 100 units. If this was in fact a special order from Japan, it seems reasonable to hope that there would be a paper trail of sorts, as it would be a fairly significant change in physical production. Any correspondence at all between the broker, any invoices?
These conversations between museum representatives and enthusiasts all seem credible, but I imagine something like a casual greeting at an event or party where someone says "hey, I've been wondering, how many of those did they make?" It would be very interesting to be able to havevthe opportunity to meet a museum rep and to speak to them in person, but just to hear them reply with a number without the backup for how they know is still frustrating.
I guess some people are never happy no matter what you do. 😁
Thanks for sharing. Sounds like a fun event.
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Edit: off topic a little. Looking at that SW A-11, it is nice, but is it "mint", which is how db describes it?
At first glance, it doesn't look mint to me. I think mint means "as delivered new from the factory." But here are dealers who are experts and who have seen in person more watches than I'll probably ever see in my life who describe a watch that looks more used as mint.
My take away is that descriptions can be a bit arbitrary but also that we need to temper our expectations of museum quality perfect specimens to reality. It seems that sometimes what we expect as buyers doesn't reflect reality. The other take away is never use the word mint. Excellent is good enough.
"CONDITION REPORT: Overall excellent condition. The dial and hands are mint as well as the case and bracelet."
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