I believe this seller has posted this Centenary ref. 2499 for a while now, with no buyers. So what does he do for re-listing? Raise the starting price. Hmmm....

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Not the first time we've seen this tactic on eBay.

 

"When in doubt, act like a lout!"

 

I am not sure what the rationale is, but I often see this on eBAY. It gets back to the fact that many dealers are simply using eBAY as an advertising board.

 

...morons, they walk among us...

 

Playing the waiting game, I'm holding out till it hits 3000.

 

In the listing his extract from the OVDB has a colour picture of a watch, when I look at OVDB I see just a "Speedie" outline with "Picture not yet available".

What's the go there?

 

Typical of the OVDB, lots of missing information, including photos.

 

So is his extract "shopped"?

 

Omega is always revising the site, things seem to come and go on an irregular basis, makes no sense whatsoever.

 

No, I have come across the same thing. I print out an extract from the OVD with an illustration, I go back to the database a few weeks later and the picture has gone.

 

You are correct that the 28.10JUB was made in 2000 pieces, not 5000 as the listing states. But I would be curious as to why they could not be called a Centenary? I quote Desmond from his article:

"The Calibre 343 “luxury Finish” chronometer
movement (seen opposite below), of which
only 5000 pieces were produced, was used
in the second production of case 2499
Centenary models as well as Seamaster and
Automatic chronometers."

M'Bob.

 

Interesting. So, extending that logic, the later cal. 333 Centenary with the word, "Centenary" engraved on the case back would not be a Centenary either, correct?

M'Bob

 

This raises the interesting question regarding the standards of collectors vs. those of the watch company and the average consumer.

If Omega puts a cal. 333 in a ref. 2500 and calls it a Centenary, and engraves same on the back, I'm going to call it a Cententary; we can agree to disagree on that.

Further, while I haven't seen all the ads for the Centenary from ca. 1948, many never mention the movement, and in fact denote it by it's appearance - hands, case, dial, buckle, etc. So, I would guess a consumer at the time would believe they were buying a Centenary, regardless of what movement powered it. As they say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...