Gents,
What your opinion on this one
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Don't see it in Rossler. I am thinking a put-together.

 

It seems to be a hidden lug type case, ground down to give it lugs. Service crown, pushers don't look right and wrong hands for the dial.

Other than that, it is fine.

 

I'm going with the elegant solution. They took an A 788, ground out some lugs, polished the case, and swapped in the dial and hands from an A 787, leaving the A 788 bezel in place. Or they popped an A 788 bezel into an A 787 case.
I certainly hope that no A 3818's were harmed in the making of this mess, and I think the case, though reshaped almost beyond recognition, probably started off as an A 787-8 cushion-type... before someone tried to make it look like the more modern 01.0210.415.

 

I do not want to say this but it actually looks nice.

 

Love those rounded lugs. Less laceration potential if somebody beaned me in the noggin with it.

 

Actually I would not mind buying it for parts , dial , hands, tetchy bazel , movement, bracelet.........

 

There is someone selling a 3019 movement, on eBay, in The States for somewhere around $1,500 IIRC. That would be a better place to put your money.

 

Of course, you could marry this:
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With this:
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...and have something that still didn't look right.

 

Well aren't we presuming there's a 3019 PHC in this Franken? ...though pics would of course be reassuring...
Those GF ladder bracelets don't come cheap... then there's the introvabile blue inner bezel, dial and hands. Might be a wash if the Franken doesn't go much above $2k.

 

Un-bloody-believable. It is up at over €2,200 with an hour to go and two people bidding for it.

The hammer this needs to go under is certainly not the auctioneer's hammer, I think this one would do the trick:

 

You've got to feel sorry for the eventual "winner". All knowledge comes at a price for sure but this is definitely going to end in tears for somebody.