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Kudos to you, sir!
I appreciate the thoughts, but I stand on the shoulders of giants. So many have helped me in this forum and others.
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Mmh - how well they run is far besides the point in my book. It’s not difficult to find a 2852, for example, that, after a service, has an attractive movement and an amplitude of 250.

The question is if anybody is going to pay a multiple of market value for pieces that were owned by someone whose name they’ve heard before, either in a good or in a bad way. I know that “owned by Goldberger” will, in the future, make me very cautious regarding originality.

Good luck with those sales - the fact that I don’t believe in this investment doesn’t mean I wish financial harm on you.
 
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Gentlemen, I’ve been reading your comments here with great interest, and since my Chrono24 listings have become such a hot topic of analysis, I figured it’s only fair to give you an update straight from the source. You are absolutely right about standard retail pricing benchmarks, but I believe you’ve completely missed the core strategy behind this play. While the forum was busy debating, I decided to take the risk and secure nearly a quarter of the entire John Goldberger Collection. Every single one of these pieces was immediately sent to an elite watchmaker.Hundreds of Euros were invested in uncompromised, top-tier mechanical overhauls, strictly leaving the cases and historical factory patina 100% untouched.
The result? We have timepieces from the 1940s and 1950s throwing spectacular amplitudes of 250°+ and rock-solid daily rates. The movements are pristine, and the official service reports and Witschi timegrapher charts are already uploaded to the listings.It is only natural that the price reflects the true value of a piece with fully documented, museum-grade pedigree—freshly sorted and ready to wear, shielding the next collector from hidden costs and mechanical risks. I do thank you for your vigilance regarding Lot 40; the management at Monaco Legend Group was remarkably professional and handled it flawlessly.
Happy collecting, boys!
Were they in any way authenticated by Omega?
 
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These watches were from an auction with many questionable lots, one of which you purchased and asked about here. And upon being told it was a franken, you promptly listed it for sale on Chrono for the next uninformed buyer.

Now you are trading on the tarnished reputation of the auction namesake.

So if you are selling I recommend including honesty and full disclosure in the core strategy.

In Ben Franklin’s words, “It takes a good many deeds to build a good reputation, but only one bad one to lose it”
 
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Gentlemen, I’ve been reading your comments here with great interest, and since my Chrono24 listings have become such a hot topic of analysis, I figured it’s only fair to give you an update straight from the source. You are absolutely right about standard retail pricing benchmarks, but I believe you’ve completely missed the core strategy behind this play. While the forum was busy debating, I decided to take the risk and secure nearly a quarter of the entire John Goldberger Collection. Every single one of these pieces was immediately sent to an elite watchmaker.Hundreds of Euros were invested in uncompromised, top-tier mechanical overhauls, strictly leaving the cases and historical factory patina 100% untouched.
The result? We have timepieces from the 1940s and 1950s throwing spectacular amplitudes of 250°+ and rock-solid daily rates. The movements are pristine, and the official service reports and Witschi timegrapher charts are already uploaded to the listings.It is only natural that the price reflects the true value of a piece with fully documented, museum-grade pedigree—freshly sorted and ready to wear, shielding the next collector from hidden costs and mechanical risks. I do thank you for your vigilance regarding Lot 40; the management at Monaco Legend Group was remarkably professional and handled it flawlessly.
Happy collecting, boys!

I mean this with all due respect, but that is some of the craziest shit I have ever heard.
 
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Gentlemen, I’ve been reading your comments here with great interest, and since my Chrono24 listings have become such a hot topic of analysis, I figured it’s only fair to give you an update straight from the source. You are absolutely right about standard retail pricing benchmarks, but I believe you’ve completely missed the core strategy behind this play. While the forum was busy debating, I decided to take the risk and secure nearly a quarter of the entire John Goldberger Collection. Every single one of these pieces was immediately sent to an elite watchmaker.Hundreds of Euros were invested in uncompromised, top-tier mechanical overhauls, strictly leaving the cases and historical factory patina 100% untouched.
The result? We have timepieces from the 1940s and 1950s throwing spectacular amplitudes of 250°+ and rock-solid daily rates. The movements are pristine, and the official service reports and Witschi timegrapher charts are already uploaded to the listings.It is only natural that the price reflects the true value of a piece with fully documented, museum-grade pedigree—freshly sorted and ready to wear, shielding the next collector from hidden costs and mechanical risks. I do thank you for your vigilance regarding Lot 40; the management at Monaco Legend Group was remarkably professional and handled it flawlessly.
Happy collecting, boys!
Well good luck with that 'play'. Unless you find a lot of greater fools, at the prices you need I think you'll be holding most of these until doomsday. It must be painful to see so many of them pulled to pieces forensically by commentary here but you can't now say you are ignorant of the problems.
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I mean this with all due respect, but that is some of the craziest shit I have ever heard.
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And spectacular beat error...

This is ridiculous now.

Fully serviced yet only 220 amp and over 2 beat error. Part of me feels bad for the OP but it was a severe error in judgement to buy these at a premium auction with the intent to flip a profit. The service was clearly not an “elite, top tier” service given the specs above and now it seems like you’re just hoping to flip it onto someone who knows even less than you do by using jazzy catch phrases and hyping them and the collection above where they actually sit.
 
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This is ridiculous now.

Fully serviced yet only 220 amp and over 2 beat error. Part of me feels bad for the OP but it was a severe error in judgement to buy these at a premium auction with the intent to flip a profit. The service was clearly not an “elite, top tier” service given the specs above and now it seems like you’re just hoping to flip it onto someone who knows even less than you do by using jazzy catch phrases and hyping them and the collection above where they actually sit.

And that’s my issue here, someone who doesn’t know better is going to get taken for a ride
 
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Gentlemen, I’ve been reading your comments here with great interest, and since my Chrono24 listings have become such a hot topic of analysis, I figured it’s only fair to give you an update straight from the source. You are absolutely right about standard retail pricing benchmarks, but I believe you’ve completely missed the core strategy behind this play. While the forum was busy debating, I decided to take the risk and secure nearly a quarter of the entire John Goldberger Collection. Every single one of these pieces was immediately sent to an elite watchmaker.Hundreds of Euros were invested in uncompromised, top-tier mechanical overhauls, strictly leaving the cases and historical factory patina 100% untouched.
The result? We have timepieces from the 1940s and 1950s throwing spectacular amplitudes of 250°+ and rock-solid daily rates. The movements are pristine, and the official service reports and Witschi timegrapher charts are already uploaded to the listings.It is only natural that the price reflects the true value of a piece with fully documented, museum-grade pedigree—freshly sorted and ready to wear, shielding the next collector from hidden costs and mechanical risks. I do thank you for your vigilance regarding Lot 40; the management at Monaco Legend Group was remarkably professional and handled it flawlessly.
Happy collecting, boys!
Grok write a pithy response to this no hallucinations no mistakes
 
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Can I ask if “hundreds of Euros” is a lot? Having only gotten a few vintage watches serviced, that seems a bargain?
 
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The question is are people starting to use the same mannerisms as AI or are these responses from the OP just AI to begin with?
 
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I'm still recovering from that fact that somebody acquired 25% of the lots and thinks he can make money