Two weeks ago this one was sold on the bay:
http://www.ebay.es/itm/331778144038?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649
That beauty went from EUR 400ish to a wooping EUR 2213 in the very last minute.
I suppose somebody went crown-crazy.
Probably right. The more of these I see, I think the scalloped crown
is correct for the fish enameled early versions and the button
crown is correct for the later plain caseback.
What do you think?
https://omegaforums.net/threads/homemade-conquest-crown-–-will-it-work.14878/page-2#post-191302
As the story goes, the scalloped crown got easily stuck on trousers pockets and snapped off the watches, and that's why Longines changed it to a more normal design.
I would love to have o
It won't turn me off, but I want to be turned on!!😁😗
It doesn't nest over the crown tube completely so there is a gap of a mm or 2... no wings, no Longines, so...no not for me.
I guess the scallop finishes the look for me in this case. But I'd wear one without it. And if it wasn't an auto, I'd probably take the crown with better grip.
I didn't mean there was anything fishy, I was just refloating the lost thread.
And for the crown itself, of course, it is interesting and I would pay a hefty premium for it (actually, I was on the brink of buying a dial, a movement, and the crown, in gold, until I realised it was the wrong gold for my watch).
But in the specific case of the SS power reserve that sold two weeks ago, I feel that there has to be better specimens for a better price.
In any case, I also believe this Conquest (the power reserve with the multipronged crown) shall become the reference piece of that period Longineses.
