It was brought to my attention by another collector. I am amazed and strangely fascinated.

SOLD for $6359
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Not sure I can think of many watches that would command that price in that condition. Discuss.

 

Money laundering or stupidity

 

4 bidders above $1000.

 

Actually, I'm starting to be fascinated by what you were searching for so as throw up that result

 

I'd take that bet. It would have taken coordinating multiple shills to drive up that price and this strikes me as too esoteric an object to try that on. Everyone bidding on this is a veteran, knowledgeable collector - no newbies to fool here.

Can anyone who knows FFs attempt to break down the value here? I see a salvageable, correct case and possibly a movement. Anything else?

Procrastination leads me down strange alleys. But this one was not my search. If you knew what an eye the searcher who showed me this has for the unpolished gem, you would be less surprised. (This, by the way, is not one of the unpolished gems)

 

There's some Turkish fisherman laughing his head off over what we've made of some rusted hatch fitting from a sunken tramp steamer.

 

Send it to Archer, he's serviced Speedmasters worse than that lol

Really impressive link btw, I'd never seen that before

 

Hublot (of all brands), who has our own ulackfocus is a relentless brand ambassador, has reconstructed the Antikythera.
http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/2011/1...ay-back-builds-antikythera-device-for-th.html

 

That's an awful lot of sentiment