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·Hi Forum People!
I am trying to learn more about 2998´s, and since they don't appear so often,
it's a bit hard to compare and understand the differences.
This reference is very intriguing with many variations over the production years.
And its a completely different ballpark with these comparing to 105´s and 145´s!
The Forum has had posts with some lovely watches,
and af course there is Speedmaster101.com (thanks there @Spacefruit )!
This auction house had about 120 watches, and there were lots of nice watches (Rolex, AP, Patek etc),
and a few Omega Speedmasters.
And the one that made me interestered was the 2998-3.
And it had a lollipop chronohand!😀
With an extract (from Jan 2023).
They had a very detailed condition report and lots of pictures to download,
and after downloading everything, the fun part begins!
Or maybe not so fun?🙁
I started zooming in on the dial, and the lume plots looked really strange?
The color is to even/consistent, with dirty/moldy/old stains that dont look natural.
And the dial has lots of spots (small warts??) and blemishes...
The hour and minute hands have had work done, and possibly wrong for this reference?
Zooming in closely - the minute hand seems to be slightly curved.
The lume on the lollipop looked to clean and the color to close to the lume plots on the indices.
The subdial hands had also been worked over.
The rest of the watch was in a charming and decent condition, with a flatfoot crown, dirty pushers,
the bezel was worn and so was the case and case back.
The movement was in need for a service,
serial nr was the one on the extract and the bridge was the symmetricle one.
But since I felt that the dial and hands had been worked over, with the dial itself in a poor condition,
I didn't plan to bid on this watch.
I did follow the auction because I wanted to see what would happen with this watch.
So I had the auction going on in the background while doing some paperwork (well...not so smart maybe!),
and the auctioneer was doing his best trying to capture the audience and working them with his charm and panache.
Not like the Golden Boys at Phillips, but doing a good job!
And it seemed to work,
many of the watches where fought over with heavy bidding,
and it took some time since he paused a lot and talked with the audience.
But when it was time for the 2998-3, it got a bit strange,
just a few bids (I think 4 or 5), and then the hammer fell!
NO pauses or charming speaches.
It didnt take long and it was sold for 15120€/16200$, with the premium!
It felt like the auction house knew it had work done with the dial and hands, and they just wanted to get rid of it??
So here are the pictures (lots of them..),
and please do comment about the watch and of course my thoughts (be kind now...😗)?
Cheers!!
I am trying to learn more about 2998´s, and since they don't appear so often,
it's a bit hard to compare and understand the differences.
This reference is very intriguing with many variations over the production years.
And its a completely different ballpark with these comparing to 105´s and 145´s!
The Forum has had posts with some lovely watches,
and af course there is Speedmaster101.com (thanks there @Spacefruit )!
This auction house had about 120 watches, and there were lots of nice watches (Rolex, AP, Patek etc),
and a few Omega Speedmasters.
And the one that made me interestered was the 2998-3.
And it had a lollipop chronohand!😀
With an extract (from Jan 2023).
They had a very detailed condition report and lots of pictures to download,
and after downloading everything, the fun part begins!
Or maybe not so fun?🙁
I started zooming in on the dial, and the lume plots looked really strange?
The color is to even/consistent, with dirty/moldy/old stains that dont look natural.
And the dial has lots of spots (small warts??) and blemishes...
The hour and minute hands have had work done, and possibly wrong for this reference?
Zooming in closely - the minute hand seems to be slightly curved.
The lume on the lollipop looked to clean and the color to close to the lume plots on the indices.
The subdial hands had also been worked over.
The rest of the watch was in a charming and decent condition, with a flatfoot crown, dirty pushers,
the bezel was worn and so was the case and case back.
The movement was in need for a service,
serial nr was the one on the extract and the bridge was the symmetricle one.
But since I felt that the dial and hands had been worked over, with the dial itself in a poor condition,
I didn't plan to bid on this watch.
I did follow the auction because I wanted to see what would happen with this watch.
So I had the auction going on in the background while doing some paperwork (well...not so smart maybe!),
and the auctioneer was doing his best trying to capture the audience and working them with his charm and panache.
Not like the Golden Boys at Phillips, but doing a good job!
And it seemed to work,
many of the watches where fought over with heavy bidding,
and it took some time since he paused a lot and talked with the audience.
But when it was time for the 2998-3, it got a bit strange,
just a few bids (I think 4 or 5), and then the hammer fell!
NO pauses or charming speaches.
It didnt take long and it was sold for 15120€/16200$, with the premium!
It felt like the auction house knew it had work done with the dial and hands, and they just wanted to get rid of it??
So here are the pictures (lots of them..),
and please do comment about the watch and of course my thoughts (be kind now...😗)?
Cheers!!
