I am sure you all saw this - well to me it seems a very nice Mark I - Was it any one of you who grabbed this one? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Zenith-El-p...j1lceW%2BAy665eO2ZlX0%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=ncPurchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network
i was in discussions with seller. good guy. i had some reservations about the subdial hands -- i thought they were supposed to skinny.
Haha it's a very nice piece. definitely not crap. i was very close to pulling the trigger. my concern was matching the claim that it had never been serviced with the potentially non-original hands.
Sorry I wasn't calling it crap but rather exclaiming how the price has gone up lol In Australia profanity is often the start of a sentence in that way.
@dsio I knew you meant it that way but pricewise.... it is high... but after all it is a historic piece - a milestone in watchmaker history and only produced in a small number.... I mean if you compare to all this Ed Whites flying high at the moment.....
And another Watch reference added to the "I realy don't Need this ... realy ...."-List ... Damn that's beautiful!
Very nice example indeed, and price probably about right, but there are 2 buts. The 3 sub-dials hands are not original to the watch: they are still original vintage EP but they are not OK for MKI, they have to be thin. The same goes for the hour and minute hands: they are not for a MKI, in MKI the gap between the lumed part of the hands and the black tip of the hands is thinner, these are MKII hands. The central chrono red hand I am fairly certain is an even later replacement, but on this I wouldnt put my hand on fire. The listing also says that the ladder bracelet is easy to come by: well, that is half a lie, in the sense that the bracelet it self is indeed relatively easy to come by but....try to get your hands on the correct "ZJ" original end-links! Nearly impossible and if you find them they cost MORE than the bracelet it self! All being said still a very good watch and example (the case is wonderful) and these are getting very hard to find in these conditions and especially with MKI case. I still thing that especially MKI will continue to rise in value, they are very rare, great watches and of huge historical importance, and the movement is just killer!