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One-Owner 145.012 with Personalised engraving added value or not??

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With few exceptions, I stay away from watches with engraved backs. To me, most engravings detract, but I’m looking for mint, not ‘treasured and worn every day’.

An exception that I recently bought from another OF member:

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Apparently, an award for 25 years service in the Russian military, from 1944.
 
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Vintagewtchzilla Vintagewtchzilla
i had once a watch with a name, a very cryptic number combo and a country name engraved. it took me 8 month to figure out what is meant and i found on this way also the seller of the watch who got it from the first owner. was pretty fun but it added 0 value

Do you mean it added no monetary value or no value at all. If it was pretty fun and you found out about the history this looks like added value to me!
 
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U ulackfocus
Hey guys, check THIS out.... One of our stores bought a new stapler the Monday after the Philadelphia Eagles won Super Bowl 52, and it's engraved with L I I on it! That must make it more valuable!

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🤦 😜

damn i need this one in my stapler collection, may i offer you a shitload of money for it ? but i am a bit suspicious of the originallity of the stapler itself , does it come with extract ?
 
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maxbelg maxbelg
Do you mean it added no monetary value or no value at all. If it was pretty fun and you found out about the history this looks like added value to me!

i said it was fun ... nothing more or less
 
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airansun airansun
With few exceptions, I stay away from watches with engraved backs. To me, most engravings detract, but I’m looking for mint, not ‘treasured and worn every day’.

That's interesting! I like the show of honest patina from being worn. If it's too minty I won't wear it and find it can lack character.
 
ICONO
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Hey guys, check THIS out.... One of our stores bought a new stapler the Monday after the Philadelphia Eagles won Super Bowl 52, and it's engraved with L I I on it! That must make it more valuable!

Stapler.jpg LII.jpg


🤦 😜

Chamfers look like they have been 'lasered' & recut to me

Frankenstapler !!
 
Jones in LA
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At the very least, the engraved date adds some mystery and intrigue...some entertainment value if you will, trying to imagine the circumstances of its origin.

What a bunch of balloon poppers here! Kudos to the OP for taking the popping in stride 😀
 
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Jones in LA Jones in LA
At the very least, the engraved date adds some mystery and intrigue...some entertainment value if you will, trying to imagine the circumstances of its origin.

What a bunch of balloon poppers here! Kudos to the OP for taking the popping in stride 😀

"Balloon poppers" 😁
A truly positive post! Wow thanks! I was starting to think that the friendly forum has changed a bit since I frequented it often ::facepalm1::.

Yes the date does add mystery and intrigue: Was it a birthday or an anniversary so close to the first moon landing? I guess part of why we pay a lot of money for these watches and don't just buy a new Speedy is due to the fact that we can dream and wonder what happened to the watch all those decades ago. To hold something in your hand and wonder who gazed at it 50 years ago. Did they gaze at it lovingly like we do now or was it really just a tool?
 
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U ulackfocus
........Hmmm, seems some of those members are also posting in this thread! Are they bipolar? 😕 😜

I'm sorry I can't make a psychiatric diagnosis on you from afar 😉. I would at least have to have one consultation face to face.
 
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I am confused. You asked for opinions on if the inscriptions added value. Most said no. So you only wanted opinions that were the same as yours, and not opinions even if they differed from yours?

Monetary value vs curiosity value is not the same thing to me. Reading the original post I took it as asking if it increased monetary value, which may have been an improper assumption based on what the OP has since written.

So looking at it from a 'fun' or 'curiosity' value, for me it does not have that as there is nothing that indicates what the date signifies.
 
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BlackTalon BlackTalon
I am confused. You asked for opinions on if the inscriptions added value. Most said no. So you only wanted opinions that were the same as yours, and not opinions even if they differed from yours?

Monetary value vs curiosity value is not the same thing to me. Reading the original post I took it as asking if it increased monetary value, which may have been an improper assumption based on what the OP has since written.

So looking at it from a 'fun' or 'curiosity' value, for me it does not have that as there is nothing that indicates what the date signifies.

Let me try to clear up your confusion:

I'm interested in opinions on the value of the inscriptions and obviously didn't make it quite clear that I don't mean only monetary value. I don't mind at all that opinions differ but do find there are nice ways to say something and rude ways. Some posts were in the latter category.

Of course that's the risk we take posting in a forum on the internet where you can't see the other person (who might be teenager trying to be funny for all one knows). If you had a face to face talk with someone it would obviously be different and one could judge better where someone is coming from. I still appreciate the opinions so far though which seem to indicate that most don't think the monetary value increases in this case. I'd also be interested in opinions on non-monetary value.
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I think this clarification will help.
 
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I agree with @BlackTalon's assessment.

Additionally, the watch kind of now has to be sold with the bracelet. I think the bracelet may be worth a bit less sold privately than a non-inscribed bracelet, so if/when sold, it'd have to be a package deal and then you may scare away buyers who don't want a bracelet, because if they did want to split them up they'd have to take a lesser amount for the bracelet and then the engraving on just the head has a bit less relevancy.

Again, if you had the backstory from the original owner and you bought it from him perhaps it would add monetary value.
 
Maganator
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I dont think it adds to the financial value at all, unfortunately.

It would be cool if it was your actual birthday though!

Great looking watch regardless. Enjoy!
 
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BenBagbag BenBagbag
I agree with @BlackTalon's assessment.

Additionally, the watch kind of now has to be sold with the bracelet. I think the bracelet may be worth a bit less sold privately than a non-inscribed bracelet, so if/when sold, it'd have to be a package deal and then you may scare away buyers who don't want a bracelet, because if they did want to split them up they'd have to take a lesser amount for the bracelet and then the engraving on just the head has a bit less relevancy.

Again, if you had the backstory from the original owner and you bought it from him perhaps it would add monetary value.

That's a very good point! I'm sure the bracelet and even the watch individually are worth less because of the inscription. The package to me has more value but indeed it needs to stay together and would cost more as a set if sold. Of course I don't plan on selling it ever! Having said that it wouldn't be the first watch I sold which I was planning on keeping.

It would be nice to have the backstory from the original owner but I think chances are low that they will read this forum and post here. 😀
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Maganator Maganator
I dont think it adds to the financial value at all, unfortunately.

It would be cool if it was your actual birthday though!

Great looking watch regardless. Enjoy!

Yes that would be amazing but my birthday is just a few years and a few days later.....
 
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