Flight crashed Flightmaster?

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m84

·Apr 25, 2023

josiahg52

Is this the new trend? People cooking their watches to get those chocolate dials is so passé. Now, it's burning up your Flightmaster and claiming it belonged to a storied pilot who crashed while wearing the watch. Oh yeah, the pilot died in the crash, of course. R.I.P. Now, does someone want to pay an outrageous amount of money for this thing?

My thoughts exactly! 😲

 

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Pastorbottle

·Apr 25, 2023

Is the seller robbing graves? Sifting through the ashes at the crematorium? Where could these things possibly be coming from?
Unless some collector had his house burn down with the poor buggers collection inside…. If so are there more crispy critters to come?
Will there be BBQed Bulovas, roasted Rolexes and pan fried Pateks to come?
I think I prefer mine raw……..Seiko sashimi anyone?

 

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Fallout Boy

·Apr 25, 2023

Ukraine relics ? 😲

 

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Scarecrow Boat

·Dec 1, 2023·Burt Macklin, FBI

Well, it looks like this confusing story has come to a confusing end. For a quick recap- earlier this year, this was was sold on eBay. A watch restoration Instagram account got hold of this watch and claimed the original owner wanted it restored.

Interestingly, that Instagram account deleted the original post but a screenshot of it (above photo) was posted earlier in this thread. Today, that Instagram account posted a completed and fully restored picture of this watch but now with the correct story that it was sold on ebay earlier this year.

 

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kaplan

·Dec 1, 2023

What a waste lol - thanks for following the story and summarising

I think it made sense to keep everything as is but the movement, or just renew it completely, but just keeping the case damaged ... confused choice

 

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sheepdoll

·Dec 1, 2023

I would have kept the hands.

 

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Scarecrow Boat

·Dec 1, 2023·Burt Macklin, FBI

kaplan

What a waste lol - thanks for following the story and summarising

I think it made sense to keep everything as is but the movement, or just renew it completely, but just keeping the case damaged ... confused choice

The watch has definitely gone through an interesting and confusing journey. Here is the watch as it was sold on eBay

The restoration Instagram account disassembled (not serviced) it and “salvaged” the dial/hands before sending it to Omega to be serviced

And received this back from Omega after it was serviced.

If I recall correctly, the Instagram account had stated from the get go they were going to send this to Omega. Why did they spend so much time on this prior just to have most of the parts replaced?

Edited: Dec 1, 2023

 

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josiahg52

·Dec 1, 2023

Involved in a house fire.

Instagram account buys it off of eBay.

Instagram account disassembles it and "salvages" the dial and hands? Salvage? What does that mean?

Then it's suggested that it was sent to Omega for overhaul? How's that? Did they send a bag of parts less the "salvaged" hands and dial? Why didn't the case get refinished or replaced by Omega? The post above says "I restored case and movement." and "I kept marks of the fire at the case." which leads me to believe the Instagram account did the work. The only mention of Omega is ". . . that Omega accept a complete overhaul." which makes no sense anyway.

Unless there's much more on Instagram, it just seems like a busted watch that some dude on the Internet restored.

 

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Scarecrow Boat

·Dec 1, 2023·Burt Macklin, FBI

josiahg52

Then it's suggested that it was sent to Omega for overhaul? How's that? Did they send a bag of parts less the "salvaged" hands and dial? Why didn't the case get refinished or replaced by Omega? The post above says "I restored case and movement." and "I kept marks of the fire at the case." which leads me to believe the Instagram account did the work. The only mention of Omega is ". . . that Omega accept a complete overhaul." which makes no sense anyway.

That Instagram account deleted the very first post, which indicated the original owner wanted it refinished. In that deleted post, they stated they were going to send it to Omega for servicing.

That Instagram account then proceeded to dismantle the watch. Here is how they received it

They then, for whatever reason, took it apart (didn’t service it) and put it back together. If you look at the movement photo in the reassembled image, you can see it was clearly not serviced.

And then shipped it off to Omega in that reassembled state. Omega then serviced the watch.

 

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tyrantlizardrex

·Dec 1, 2023

The 145.013 is now a return to Omega in Switzerland for a service model as I understand it (certainly at independent service centres with Omega accreditation).

We know that Omega/Swatch have some rules around servicing watches and what they will/won't accept, and what they will/won't insist upon if they are to undertake the work.

It may be that the owner enquired and was told that if it was sent in, in its fully fired damaged state, that they would not service it. Or would insist on a new case. Or who knows what.

It looks like the new owner, who bought it from ebay, got it into a state where Omega would accept it, and then sent in for service as if you don't have the parts, that's where it needs to go.

Possibly a weird choice - but a choice.

Trying to understand or make sense of it, is likely not worth the neurons.

 

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josiahg52

·Dec 1, 2023

tyrantlizardrex

Trying to understand or make sense of it, is likely not worth the neurons.

So I've concluded. Still seems murky and presented for the clicks which is fine.

 

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theluckyluke

·Dec 2, 2023

I’d love to see the face of the person receiving the watch at Omega… 😵‍💫