Omega Speedmaster MKII Telestop Racing

Hey Guys,

I'm new to this forum and fairly new to collecting watches. I made my first big vintage purchase on the weekend, an Omega Speedmaster MKII Telestop Racing, from from a seller called 'fullywound' on eBay:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Omega-Te...=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

After making the purchase and receiving what I felt were insufficiently transparent responses from the seller I started doing a bit of research on them and came across numerous posts on this forum regarding some of his previous sales. Admittedly I should have done my research before placing a bid, but I trusted their excellent feedback rating on eBay.

Obviously after reading the many posts on this forum and seeing that they'd actually been banned from here I decided to pull out and request a full refund which I received today.

My question to you guys is, would you consider this watch to be as described in their listing, or is there anything suspicious looking to you?

Thanks.

... oh and the price I paid (and was refunded) was £3,900.

There was a discussion about this watch. Have you seen it?

https://omegaforums.net/threads/did...dmaster-with-racing-dial.109071/#post-1435810

Ah, thanks for sharing I didn’t see that discussion.

so it sounds like maybe it was potentially a good purchase after all. I did question the racing dial and asked for the Extract if Archives to confirm both “Telestop” and “Racing” dial, in which case I’d assume it was legit and I guess pretty rare.

In the end I just didn’t feel comfortable going through with it after reading all the negativity about the seller on this forum.

I did ask after purchasing it (I know too late) if he could share any information about the previous owners or where he acquired it but he just replied “we don’t have that information”. Basically the responses to what I felt were perfectly reasonable questions where just a few words. This seemed pretty off after spending nearly £4K on a watch.

unfortunately i know little about that model but had read the thread and was just trying to point you in the right direction. I'm sure if you reach out in the other thread those who are more informed will assist.
all the best

Ok great thanks!

Hey Paul, thanks for your reply. Well it sounds like perhaps it could have been a potentially good purchase, but its cancelled now.

It just didn’t feel right after all the comments here about the seller ‘fullywound’.