Omega 166.0250 BB Ploprof

tyrantlizardrex

Hi @pmontoyap - I notice you have listed this as "NOS", but it appears to be a build of modern case/dial/hands with a 1010 movement.

Can you please clarify?

tyrantlizardrex

Thanks for the clarification @pmontoyap - it probably should not be listed as NOS if it has been built up from modern parts - not everyone who uses the forums is as knowledgable as yourself about the watch that you are selling. 👍

Happy Holidays. 😀

pmontoyap

AFAIK many collector, including myself, call these watches new old stock, be it a 166.024, a SHOM, or BB Ploprof and have done so for years. The sales forum is not exactly the place to learn and teach, so maybe a DM would have sufficed to entice me to change the listing which had already been checked by the moderators of the forum. Having said that I completely understand where you are coming from and appreciate your input. 😉

tyrantlizardrex

The only people that have ever claimed that watches built out of parts were NOS were those wilfully trying to deceive buyers.

You do not have a NOS watch... and the parts from the look of it are not NOS, but brand new modern ones.

If you didn't want these comments on your for sale thread, you probably shouldn't have tried to pass off a build as NOS.

pmontoyap

😉😗😗

Hello,

https://omegaforums.net/threads/omega-baby-ploprof-help-requested.47073/#post-560427

Here is an example of respectable member calling this type of builds “NOS”, a post which you coincidentally liked 😗

Of course it is mostly people who actually own these that have coined the term and actually know what Im talking about, I dont expect you too. 🍿

You can’t learn etiquette from the forum rules bud, but just keep doing whatever it takes to reach 10.000 post. Which makes me wonder how many of them were actually meaningful and a contribution to the Omega collecting scene.

Happy new year and thanks for the bump.

base615

The thread you posted isn't a sales post. People generally refer to these as Watchco (even though this example is not actually built by Watchco). As an owner of these myself, I wouldn't be posting a sales thread as NOS as that's not accurate at best and could be construed as deceptive at worst, particularly after it's been pointed out. To say those of us who own these call them NOS is just flat out wrong. For it to be NOS, it has to be with parts from the period, not modern service parts as in this case.

That said, this is a nice watch and it's a reasonable price. The only issue I see is the description is inaccurate.

pmontoyap

It would be nice to note that I used quotations on the “NOS” , please understand that this is a grammar tool called scare quote used to emphasize a term that although not entirely correct, some other people have used before. For example, the post I shared from a few years back, and many others that I don’t need to show So please dont try to put me in the wrong when I am not. Remember this post was reviewed by forum moderators prior to listing it in the sales forum.

Also, this is not ebay, there is no buy it now or bidding or contract. Any interested party can casually resolve any doubts and can do so in a respectful way. Even if they disagree with the term I preffer to use. I call the 165.024 WatchCo’s, because it is the model that started this trend, I dont call a recently built SHOM or a BB Ploprof that.

It would be nice for the vigilantes to chill now, just browsing the sales forum with absolutely no intention to buy or sell only to try to roast an honest sellers is flat out lame.

I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to any members who might not have understood that the quote in the word “NOS” meant I was using a term coined and not a literal condition of the watch being offered.

Happy new year and thanks for the input

base615

Alternatively, don't pretend you're selling something other than what you're actually selling. You're absolutely wrong on this one. New old stock has a very specific meaning, no matter what grammatical excuses you use and your post still specifically says it includes new old stock parts, even after you've been told. You can call me a vigilante if you like, I don't care, but the fact that you still haven't changed it is not the sign of an honest seller and, instead of posting passive aggressive responses, you should just change the listing to be correct and not deceptive.

By the way, given I've bought a watch from this forum in the last 24 hours, I'm hardly "just browsing the sales forum with absolutely no intention to buy or sell"

pmontoyap

Its quite hard to please everyone, specially in this forum full of “savvy” collectors.

Walrus

I take no sides here don’t mind NOS or whatever and actually I like the look of this watch. However I do take umbrage about insulting someone for trying to get to 10k posts without saying anything meaningful as that is main goal here and I’m doing pretty good so far.