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stu49520
·WOW!! 🥰 beautiful trio!!!
I pulled the wrong box out of storage...(eye candy follows)
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High Hope
·I echo the enthusiasm for these watches. The collection is fantastic!
Here’s a hypothetical question:
Would it be criminal to swap the faces of the GF watch and gold watch? It’s something I’ve wondered about before, not about your watches specifically but about vintage, virtually identical references. Say, Speedies?
Here’s a hypothetical question:
Would it be criminal to swap the faces of the GF watch and gold watch? It’s something I’ve wondered about before, not about your watches specifically but about vintage, virtually identical references. Say, Speedies?
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SkunkPrince
·I echo the enthusiasm for these watches. The collection is fantastic!
Here’s a hypothetical question:
Would it be criminal to swap the faces of the GF watch and gold watch? It’s something I’ve wondered about before, not about your watches specifically but about vintage, virtually identical references. Say, Speedies?
But remember you can do whatever you want with your own property.
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SkunkPrince
·If I owned these watches I would be wearing them!
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padders
··Oooo subtitles!Now that is how you like farm!
Some lovely pieces right there.
Some lovely pieces right there.
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Uniqez
·You are committing a crime by not wearing them! Such a beautiful watches mate.👍👍👍
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High Hope
·Criminal, no. Unethical, possibly. I personally hope to switch one KO 2627 case for another because it was over polished.
But remember you can do whatever you want with your own property.
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airansun
·Well damn, now I know why it is so hard to find one of these in pristine condition -- you have them all!
Ah, so that’s what collecting means: acquiring every example of a model in existence so that you can then hold the world to ransom.
Except for one that was bought here, all of them are eBay scores. For a period of about 18 months, anytime I saw one on eBay in really nice condition for what I considered low prices, I stepped up. Most of them were less than $4k, which I consider a screaming deal for a 321 filled Seamaster in nice shape with a clean dial.
This started because, during a particular nine month period on eBay (when I started looking for one of these for the first time), there was nothing but crap or overpriced mediocre pieces. It was pretty frustrating.
There’s something about these dials that I find entrancing, particularly the early 60’s ones, before they started to cheapen the process to produce them.
But please rest assured, I stopped doing this almost a year ago. There are plenty more out there.
After all, how many of anything can a person own? 😎
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airansun
·Would it be criminal to swap the faces of the GF watch and gold watch? It’s something I’ve wondered about before, not about your watches specifically but about vintage, virtually identical references.
This is something I would not do, pretty much under any circumstance.
First, to me anyway, each watch that’s still in possession of its factory bits has its own ‘integrity’ that gets destroyed when you start mixing and matching. For example, I have a Speedmaster that suffered such a mixing-matching at someone else’s hands and, honestly, it bothers me every time I see it.
Second, these dials changed subtly over the early sixties and finding an exact correct match would be tricky.
April 1965, GF
May 1963 gold
These dials are not the same. I love the earlier dials, because, like their Speedmaster brothers, the shapes of the subdial dishes are more elegant in the pre-64’s.
By the late sixties, they looked like this
February 1968
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chronoboy64
·Great watches and pics, thanks for sharing 👍
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airansun
·FYI, I created this thread to more systematically show the dial progression:
https://omegaforums.net/threads/dial-reference-for-60’s-321-105-001-seamaster-family.117453/
https://omegaforums.net/threads/dial-reference-for-60’s-321-105-001-seamaster-family.117453/
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Wryfox
·Sweet baby Jesus...
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airansun
·Finally, the last one I bought, last year.
Honestly, with this one, I felt like I had no choice. It was too tempting. With a correct bracelet and endlinks too.
It’s a silver dial, which makes the thing a little hard to read. Maybe that’s why it looks like it was put away by a first owner after only a few weeks.
$3.5k. I had no choice. None.
Honestly, with this one, I felt like I had no choice. It was too tempting. With a correct bracelet and endlinks too.
It’s a silver dial, which makes the thing a little hard to read. Maybe that’s why it looks like it was put away by a first owner after only a few weeks.
$3.5k. I had no choice. None.
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kip595
·I've got a bad feeling looking for one of these in my range is now going to usurp my Speedy fund...😟
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Engee
·One of these may well have just joined the railmaster and datejust on my birth year search. I’m not that interested in chronos, but these are simply beautiful timepieces.
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wpbrown
·The watch with the inscription.
He only worked there 4 years and they gave him a Seamaster!!
I'm with my current employer 29 years, can't wait to see what watch I get.
He only worked there 4 years and they gave him a Seamaster!!
I'm with my current employer 29 years, can't wait to see what watch I get.
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SkunkPrince
·The watch with the inscription.
He only worked there 4 years and they gave him a Seamaster!!
I'm with my current employer 29 years, can't wait to see what watch I get.
"Watch out for that bottom step on your way out."
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JetLinks
·$3.5k. I had no choice. None.[/QUOTE]
I think I saw this one around August of last year on Chrono24 but some bugger beat me to it!! I think I know who now...... 🙁
Finally, the last one I bought, last year.
Honestly, with this one, I felt like I had no choice. It was too tempting. With a correct bracelet and endlinks too.
$3.5k. I had no choice. None.
I think I saw this one around August of last year on Chrono24 but some bugger beat me to it!! I think I know who now...... 🙁
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