I thought that baton hands, were also an option for sub registers, no?
Maybe my confusion came from the fact that Wally Shirra’s watch, which I thought was a 2998-4, had that configuration (See below)… and incidentally has the same configuration as my 2998-4.
I think for the majority of this forum, 20k is not small money. And I understand that you take depreciation into account when doing a 20k purchase. But there will always be a big part of uncertainty around the price, so you should be passionate enough about it to lose money with it. And if you want to play with the big ones and buy top of the market watches with little experience, you cannot expect others to do the work for you to give you assurance that you won't lose money.
Did anybody talk about the "flashy orange" colour of the index and the "exactly" matching colour of the hands?
I see many original tritium speedies with a different aging of index and hands, so this could be a little bit suspicious for me. But I never crossed 2998 in my life, and have no experience in this ref, so, my fear is maybe unjustified.
To 2998 lucky owners: orange like a fruit is a usual colour?
Im not expecting from anybody to do the work for me. Im well aware that the risk is there, and im not trying to get some definitive answers.
Like i said my main question is about the authenticity of the watch. Thats the main reason i posted here. Not to try selling the watch to anybody here.
Regarding the sub dial hands, i have to do some more research, i was sure that they were original hence the info i gathered from the web but now im not shure if baton hands were a option in this reference from the factory anymore.
I dont mind the crown since it is a common thing that service people would change. I only wonder why they did that, is the original crown prone to break or what?
Also, did the plexi come with stamped omega logo from factory or is it a replacment glass that get the stamped logo in the middle ?
Good ending and worth the three pages 😀 Nice watch (although speed-selling your grandmother is tough 😀 and now I wonder about the OP’s friend “a small German auction house”
I have seen many -4's with both leaf and straight subdial hands that I accept both, and look to the rest of the watch to make a judgement call on the originality.
As requested happy to share some more pics:
https://share.icloud.com/photos/013i8IFid1wpfHVXpDOlW7o3Q
Can you please upload photos directly to the forum and not via a cloud link?
I have seen many -4's with both leaf and straight subdial hands that I accept both, and look to the rest of the watch to make a judgement call on the originality.
What I can say is that all -3's have leaf and all -5's have baton.
The most interesting thing on this watch is that the case back has the larger bevel, that we only see on -4's and up until recently made me dismiss them as polished.
Always time to learn!
Its a great watch. It's a terrible investment, all are.
Buy for fun, if you can't afford it without thinking it's an investment, then don't do it.
