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jenneralSwe
·Hi guys, please Help me identify this watch of you can?
I think i’ve seen similar but not with a golden bracelet etc..
I think i’ve seen similar but not with a golden bracelet etc..
Help to identify this Constellation
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JimInOz
··Melbourne AustraliaIt's a reference 191.0008, bracelet is after market.
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·It's a reference 191.0008, bracelet is after market.
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JimInOz
··Melbourne AustraliaThere's not many of them around, but rareness doesn't always equate to value.
Is it solid 18K or plated?
Is it solid 18K or plated?
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jenneralSwe
·There's not many of them around, but rareness doesn't always equate to value.
Is it solid 18K or plated?
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JimInOz
··Melbourne AustraliaDo you have any photos of the hallmarks?
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gatorcpa
··ΩF InvestiGatorI would say solid on this one
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jenneralSwe
·And What do you guys think the value can be out from What we know?
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gatorcpa
··ΩF InvestiGatorAnd What do you guys think the value can be out from What we know?
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jenneralSwe
·I see that it’s quite hard to find any info about auctions in the past with this watch. Do you have any suggestions where I can find out more? Like pages with old sale-prices, I don’t want to be screwed when I sell it 😀 Or maybe you can guess approximately? / J
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gatorcpa
··ΩF InvestiGatorI think that looking at old auctions on this watch will be very misleading. Gold has risen so much recently, current pricing might be several times what is was only a few years ago.
If you really want a value, you would need to have a watchmaker remove the movement and crystal. Then you can find out how much gold is in the case and bracelet.
Non-gold tuning fork watches are relatively inexpensive in comparison to mechanicals. The main reason is that it is difficult to repair them. There are only a few watchmakers out there who can service them properly and they tend to be very busy.
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If you really want a value, you would need to have a watchmaker remove the movement and crystal. Then you can find out how much gold is in the case and bracelet.
Non-gold tuning fork watches are relatively inexpensive in comparison to mechanicals. The main reason is that it is difficult to repair them. There are only a few watchmakers out there who can service them properly and they tend to be very busy.
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BrokenSkunk
·This isn't technically a tuning fork watch. Although the drive motor works on a similar process, with a jewelled pawl turning an index wheel, the timing is controlled by a quartz oscillator. The Quartz osc. drives a torsion bar, which drives the index pawl.
On a tuning fork watch (the mechanism of which which predates this watch), there's no quartz oscillator, the tuning fork replaces the torsion bar, and the fork itself controlls the frequency of oscillation.
This is a Beta-21 or -22 (Omega cal 1300 I think). It's not the worlds first comercially available quartz wristwach, that was the Seiko Astron. But only a couple of hndred Astronsd were made and they were abut as expensive as a house, so whether the Astron can be considered to have been "commercially available" is debatable. Beta 21 powered watches were the first quartz watches you could actually buy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Electroquartz
The Beta-2x is notoriously difficult to work on. There are few watchmakers prepared to take it on. Spares are all but non-existant. A working movement has value on it's own.
It sounds like we're encouraging you to melt it and sell the movement. Please don't. That is a relatively rare model, you don't see them very often.
On a tuning fork watch (the mechanism of which which predates this watch), there's no quartz oscillator, the tuning fork replaces the torsion bar, and the fork itself controlls the frequency of oscillation.
This is a Beta-21 or -22 (Omega cal 1300 I think). It's not the worlds first comercially available quartz wristwach, that was the Seiko Astron. But only a couple of hndred Astronsd were made and they were abut as expensive as a house, so whether the Astron can be considered to have been "commercially available" is debatable. Beta 21 powered watches were the first quartz watches you could actually buy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Electroquartz
The Beta-2x is notoriously difficult to work on. There are few watchmakers prepared to take it on. Spares are all but non-existant. A working movement has value on it's own.
It sounds like we're encouraging you to melt it and sell the movement. Please don't. That is a relatively rare model, you don't see them very often.
