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·Anyway, I feel there will be some interest in this piece...
I wonder how long it will take a another one appears on the market
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LEMANIA Chro27-C12 chronometer history help please…..
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·What are the numbers between the Movement serial and case number category? Very cool that you put this together!
It was in order to try to detect how many chronometer movements were made...
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·Is the difference (sequencial) between movement serial numbers.
It was in order to try to detect how many chronometer movements were made...
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·Ah gotcha. Neat! Wish there was more info on these. Seems like we have nailed down the production between 1946-47. Thoughts on that ?
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·Curious as to what this will sell for because I have been offered very little for mine in the area I live because of the case size and gold material instead of steel. The rarity of the movement has been ignored by several “experts” and I was told $500 for the movement plus gold value by a scumbag rolex dealer in the Tampa area 🤣
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·Seems as though if a blog hasn’t posted anything about how awesome and rare it is you officially own a worthless gold chronograph………. Also was recently told by an “expert” thats its a common movement and if it had a 35mm stainless case it would be worth several times more 🤣
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·Curious as to what this will sell for because I have been offered very little for mine in the area I live because of the case size and gold material instead of steel. The rarity of the movement has been ignored by several “experts” and I was told $500 for the movement plus gold value by a scumbag rolex dealer in the Tampa area 🤣
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·Seems as though if a blog hasn’t posted anything about how awesome and rare it is you officially own a worthless gold chronograph………. Also was recently told by an “expert” thats its a common movement and if it had a 35mm stainless case it would be worth several times more 🤣
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··not the sharpest pencil in the ΩF drawerAnyway, I feel there will be some interest in this piece...
I wonder how long it will take a another one appears on the market
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jsflog
·I paid a little under 3k for mine in 2015. Did I overpay, probably, but happy to own it especially with the patina that my dial has. Also curious what this one will sell for.
But in 2015 prices were higher I presume, the market was different.
Your dial is much better.
Anyway last year Sotheby's in Singapore auctioned one for 4000 USD, and it did not sell.
I tend to agree that because of small case dimension, interest is very low.
People are not aware how rare these watches are, I have spoken to a Omega watch expert here in Portugal, and he did not know of the existence of a Lemania movement that is the base of Omega 321, adjusted for 7 positions.
I would "happily" pay 1000 USD for the one in auction, but I presume it will sell for higher than that.
If someone here catches it and them pretend to ressell to me I can go up to those values.
Thanks
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·Based on this numbers tank number suggests - assuming these were produced in 1 batch with consecutive numbers - a production of 212 pieces
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·See my updated theory above, possibly a false alarm, I think it may just be a fresh crystal. Apologies for any unwarranted concern.
Agreed though, even if it was touched up it is not egregious and the piece is significant enough regardless.
I agree those issues can be explained by crystal scratches on earlier photo.
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··not the sharpest pencil in the ΩF drawerIf so, I wonder if all of them still exist scattered around. Kind of doubt it, as I'm sure some were (rather unfortunately) scrapped for the gold cases over time.
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·Curious as to what this will sell for because I have been offered very little for mine in the area I live because of the case size and gold material instead of steel. The rarity of the movement has been ignored by several “experts” and I was told $500 for the movement plus gold value by a scumbag rolex dealer in the Tampa area 🤣
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·It is still under 1k on Ebay as of this morning. Interesting to follow this auction.
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·Still under $900 with an hour left 🫣
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·$1200, less than what I thought it would end at for sure. Some high feedback score bidders in there.
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·$1200, less than what I thought it would end at for sure. Some high feedback score bidders in there.
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·Someone got it really "cheap", congrats to the winner, curious if it was some OF member...
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·$1,192 was the final sale price.
