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With the recent addition of a new condition category, I’ve been studying pieces and weighing the words of the definitions. 📖 To me, the most difficult ground is between Good and Very Good, particularly when I’m looking at a specific watch. 🤔
Maybe the real issue is how much room between these two labels there really is. How do you place all those pieces that fall in the middle?
https://speedmaster101.com/price-chart-2/
Obviously, despite the objective criteria offered, there’s still room for a lot of opinion.
So, I’m curious to share a specific watch and hear everyone’s thoughts about how they would analyze where it fell.
It’s an Ed White, a 105.003-65, a piece of mine. And no, I would never sell it and that’s not the point.
It runs and functions properly. I had to replace an hour hammer when I got it, as well as a correct dustcover and a better caseback. I have changed nothing else.
(The movement photo is before service, unfortunately.)
I think it’s closer to very good than good, but I can see some arguing it’s barely good.
All the bits are correct and the lume reacts as exhausted tritium should, but judge for yourself about the shape of the plots. Flaws include dirt on the lume and a less than perfect bezel. In hand, it’s clearly been polished and a little incorrectly too (tops of the lugs). It was an eBay find and I have no reliable history. I think it’s a very attractive piece.
What do you all think?
(For those of you that find this tedious or silly, I apologize. But this is the reason why coin grading changed to a numerical system, as tricky as that is, about fifty years ago.)
With the recent addition of a new condition category, I’ve been studying pieces and weighing the words of the definitions. 📖 To me, the most difficult ground is between Good and Very Good, particularly when I’m looking at a specific watch. 🤔
Maybe the real issue is how much room between these two labels there really is. How do you place all those pieces that fall in the middle?
https://speedmaster101.com/price-chart-2/
Obviously, despite the objective criteria offered, there’s still room for a lot of opinion.
So, I’m curious to share a specific watch and hear everyone’s thoughts about how they would analyze where it fell.
It’s an Ed White, a 105.003-65, a piece of mine. And no, I would never sell it and that’s not the point.
It runs and functions properly. I had to replace an hour hammer when I got it, as well as a correct dustcover and a better caseback. I have changed nothing else.
(The movement photo is before service, unfortunately.)
I think it’s closer to very good than good, but I can see some arguing it’s barely good.
All the bits are correct and the lume reacts as exhausted tritium should, but judge for yourself about the shape of the plots. Flaws include dirt on the lume and a less than perfect bezel. In hand, it’s clearly been polished and a little incorrectly too (tops of the lugs). It was an eBay find and I have no reliable history. I think it’s a very attractive piece.
What do you all think?
(For those of you that find this tedious or silly, I apologize. But this is the reason why coin grading changed to a numerical system, as tricky as that is, about fifty years ago.)