So you have just outed a watch to 50k members with 6 days left of bidding.


Happy all.......

 

I think the 4 parts puzzles are something for the younger ones. And I hope there is a caseback.

 

The seller is auctioning the case back in separate listing:

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seeing a 30m serial #, step dial and a straight writing 1st watch caseback... looks like a complete set. i'm guessing he calculated he could get more selling the somewhat rare caseback separate from the disaster watch.
That said buying it at $1500 and putting at least that much into it for a bezel, service, possible relume, oh and the separate caseback... i suppose you'd be under what an equivalent watch would cost.

...you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, WIS?

 

It was all well and good when these kind of watches could be picked up for relative peanuts, the parts came came easy and weren't breaking the bank either.

It's another world nowadays with every man and his dog looking for 'deals' and parts astronomically priced too. The last DON bezel I bought cost me €500 and I thought that was expensive.....little did I know!

.....and don't get me started on the old favourite game of mine which was buying up 'spares and repairs' cheap Omegas where they came with a 7077 or 7912 attached and included in the price...

 

It's shady of the seller to sell the caseback separate from the watch as far as I'm concerned. "I'm not sure if it goes with this watch" - what a load of BS.

 

He is just calculating and taking chance that people want parts instead of a whole project watch. To each his own

 

At $3250 now with a day left, 16 unique bidders and over 200 watchers.

I'll have some of whatever they're smoking, please.

 

How many bidders are bidding on both? Does eBay tell you that?

 

At least a couple, the high bidder in the case back has been active on the rest of it. (r***e 1661). You only get initials and feedback rankings but you can match them up for the most part.

 

The past few months I have been seeing run down, poor photo watches selling for a lot more than they are worth. Is this just bored collectors wanting a project or has this always been the case?

 

A lot of those "eBay sales" get never paid or get returned for whatever reason, hence aren't real and definitive sales...

Often when the winner bails out or doesn't pay, the seller contacts the underbidders and if they come to an agreement the item sells for less than the "sold" price you can see.

 

Or they will 'sell' and we offered again the next day. And that 7 times in a row.

 

Funny how eBay snipers (like most of us) are at a disadvantage here.
For me, once the current auction price rises above my max bid I'm not able to be an underbidder.

 

$4500 and 12 hours left. These can't be real bids.

 

sniping still places a bid. If your max limit is exceeded before the auction ends that your snipe won’t go through and you’re never actually bidding on the watch. If, during the last 8 seconds 20 bids come through, it’ll still show the amounts and the order that they were received which could allow you to be an under bidder. That being said I personally haven’t seen this happen often. I was offered a second chance deal one time over the last 5 years of fairly regular bidding. I think you’ll see this during shill bids when the seller’s cousin wins the watch and the seller has to allow the winner to withdraw the bid.

 

I like how the seller with 8 feedback says that buyers with less than 40 must contact him first or else the bid will be cancelled.