Hi I am looking to buy my first Omega and decided on the Reduced (understand the manual is more popular but reduced is better for me personally) I found a seller selling a good condition 1992 reduced for £1200, it has papers, recent service but no box. I have been looking for a while on chrono24 and this appears to be a reasonable deal. But is there anything from the pictures which raises suspicion as im not an expert? Many thanks
I would expect better photos or want to inspect in person. OTOH a full strip-down service in the UK will set you back over £350 + parts, so if it is cosmetically OK and the service was good I'd say it's a good price.
That is a blank warranty card and proves nothing. The watch is probably fine but the card is pretty useless for that watch and it could be a put together. The price is ok I suppose but I would personally want it at less than £1k if it needs work as it surely does. Claims of servicing on these are meaningless without proof. I would want to see that it resets properly for a start.
He claims a mark was placed in the case back by the service centre hence the lower cost so i have to assume no service done
Assume no service if there is no receipt. Further assume seller is lying about the service Then wonder what else he could be lying about.
July 2016, £379 including new main-spring, post and insurance. That was by Mark Lovik although he seems to be concentrating on his watch repair courses now: https://www.watchrepairlessons.com/
So he claims that caseback damage is proof of servicing? Creative, I’ll give him that. As I said above, without proof, assume no recent servicing took place and that it needs one. You’ll be lucky to get it done for much less than £350. Omega would charge you nearer £550. See now why so many of these get sold once they need work? The card isn’t filled in, it is blank. I said this above. That said it’s unlikely to be fake I should think. Rather more likely to run like a dog though.