Recently there have been a lot of 105.003's offered, some good some bad. Lets play a game, find a $10,000 Ed White that even if you would not buy yourself, you would recommend to a friend. I know the Concours boys wont play from behind their wallets, but really this is a challenge for the hunters among us. What can we find? (I haven't even looked yet. Not lazy just busy).
If its a watch worth owning, I don't think it will be listed at less than $10,000. I am not looking for concours, but mouldy dials and over polished cases don't interest me, and I wouldn't recommend them. Its too expensive to put them right nowadays, so not worth having in my opinion. It feels like the amount of poor quality Speedmasters around is higher than its ever been, and I think is damaging to the market as they sit unsold or achieving weak results at auction. Saying that if anyone can find a nice dial in an honest case for that much I would recommend it!
Well in your own words: (SM101) "there has been an increased number coming to the market, and prices for better examples now regularly exceed $18,000. (March 2017). There are some awful ones for much less," At a quick glance 26 105.003's on Chrono24. None of them are offered below $10,000 and the ones around £10,000 don't look too great. 6 offered on eBay. Cheapest is over $11500 and looks a rather tatty, unattractive, polished up example. 2 offered on the first couple of pages our own private FS forum. Both above $17,000. I will be interested to see where anyone finds nice, sub $10,000 examples.
I may be not entirely on topic, but I can't get over a 105.003-65 that I missed at auction on March 23. It went for GBP 7,700 hammer price, if I remember correctly. To my eyes it was in an extraordinarily honest condition. Maybe someone here was the lucky one? This was the listing: https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/...0045/lot-c0f3ecbb-cee5-49ed-9e7c-aa10010cb983
I was having a look through the Sterling Vault catalogue the other day, although not in the market for a vintage Speedmaster and not knowing much about them, I think this one doesn't look too bad if it stays within estimate of 8-10k. Although I'm not sure if using auction houses are cheating in this game.
With 24% buyers fee that makes £10,000 for both of those watches, and I don’t feel excited about either.
Good, that is exactly what I want to hear, because it is nagging me still... But one of those has mix and match pushers, wrong crown, wrong chrono hand... I think I still can't let it go.
These Ed White threads make me want to wear my Ed White more often. I have been on the fence about selling mine, and these threads also make me want to keep mine and not sell. Aside, the prices now seem so wide ranging, that I am not even sure how to price, let alone deal with a transaction of this amount of money.
Only because $15.k may be in the mix, please talk me out of this one... Omega Speedmaster 105.012-64 Blue Bezel, Asymmetrical T's 1506 + 16, Extract Box Condition: Pre-owned ITEM PRICE:US $16,522.32*Converted from EUR 14,695.00+US $39.35*Shipping: Converted from EUR 35.00 TIME ENDS:May-03,01:04 PM PDT SELLER:verynicethings666(235)Feedback score is 235 for verynicethings66693% positive feedback
i am all for honest condition but that bezel is a touch too beat up for me there are many many on OF that know far more about the Ed White market than I do, but i think v good ones that are all original are high teens / low 20s and i recently sold a great one for 22k. so i would think 10k you can't get anything decent but 15k you can find quite a good example and without bracelet maybe better than "good" ? and yes, there seem to be a lot for sale and so if you pick through the mediocre ones there should be a diamond out there. . .
I guess my love for blue bezels distracted me from "really" looking at all the damage to the bezel. The search continues. Thank you.
i totally understand re: blue bezels. . the one i sold for 22k was all-original, w/ extract, and had a really clean blue/gray bezel i would best characterize as navy blue but it was not the bright blue i have seen other places
Perhaps the best 10k Ed White to recommend to a friend will be the one Omega makes this year with the new cal 321
