I'll bet they're lookin' for $100k.

I don't know why you guys keep on harping on the lume color.
It looks absolutely original to me.
It shows degradation and aging (black-is/mold-ish) color at some spots typical to Speedmasters of the period.

The lollipop hand lume shows a bit of sheen/glossiness which could suggest it has either been completely re-done, or stabilized at some point.
However the dial lume looks 100% to me.

Totally agree re: the aging. My concern would be that the plots started as light puke green or light yellow, whitish, and were darkened. Wouldn't affect the blackening, molding that had already occurred. May be a bit of tin hat situation, but just figured id put that out there.

Those are pretty strong assumptions... 🙄

Agree. Any real buyer for this watch will have it inspected in hand first.
When I recently bought my 2915-3 I flew up to see it in hand first with geiger counter, UV light, X20 Loupe and all...

BANG!

Hit the nail on the head.

This is a watch that ticks all the boxes and has all the right parts, so that if you were told about it over the phone then you would think it is really interesting.

For me, (I stress for me, others will have other opinions), this watch is a bit "dry". I do not know how else to describe the feeling it gives me. Or to put it another way, the watch seems to have little appeal after the initial wonder of a BASE1000 and a lollipop.

The immediate assault to my eyes is the troweled lume on the lollipop, which is a strong colour and too close to the rest of the lume on the watch to look natural. In fact I have seen this watch before and the lollipop was quite green - I assume radium, and it also looked unattractive, (bogie green) but was possibly original. The rest of the hands are possibly early service items. Certainly if a watch wants to be justified in asking full price I expect triangle lume on the alpha and more authentic looking subdial hands. As others have said these Subdial hands dont ring true.

The rest of the watch does ring true, albeit not desirably. So not desirable at the money that is suggested is being asked

If the OP watch is selling for $40,000 then that is interesting. At $100,000 it is in my humble opinion, ahead of the market - but I do not blame them for asking. After all, as the old saying goes, find me another

With watches of this value, if it does not immediately make me go "ooh thats nice I want it" then I look for reasons why not. First I listen to my inner voice, my intuition, and then look for reasons. I know others do it the other way around - each to his own. With this watch, each time I saw it, or looked at photos, I liked it less. I am not trying to be offensive, just saying that in this rarefied atmosphere of $100k speedmasters that thing you are going to swap all that money for has got to make you go weak at the knees.

There is a new breed of buyer coming into high end speedmasters, and they need the boxes ticking. This will go to them.

It takes no kind of genius to see the difference in the micheal e watch and this watch.

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This is a really interesting thread on perception of "beauty". I'm not into Speedmasters (or any chronometer) so looking at @nonuffinkbloke comparison picture the watch on left appears to me to have a dial in better condition, and closer to the watch's original appearance decades ago.The one on the right has a degraded dial (brown color). Also, the EWC watch is lit from above and below for the photographs. So the flat polished surfaces, such as the hands and logo appear black. I personally wouldn't call this lighting setup as been "poor", just different.

Indeed it is.
All the completely horrible Aston Martin colours (Harvest Gold anyone?) are coming back as buyers tire of Silver, or BRG.or even the Aston green.