If this sale completes I hope the buyer continues in blissful ignorance at the utter shit they’ve bought.
I could see someone maybe paying £300 (I’m not suggesting it’s worth that) but almost $900?! Come on.

This watch will have been a beat up, water damaged wreck this time last year. Then someone’s polished the life out of it and given it the black ‘military’ redial treatment.

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You are foreshadowing next week's newbie thread.

 

Yep that’s the thing, someone will come here afterwards, not before.

 

New member here. I am pleased to introduce you to my new vintage Seamaster 30. Do you think it’s too beat up? I suspect it may have been polished a bit too much and a bit rusty, but I wanted to buy it before someone else did because chicks dig military dials. Is it a redial? I only paid $900. View attachment 1576072

 

I saw that one earlier today when I was trolling eBay for bargains. This watch wasn’t among them.

 

What are you guys talking about? Y/N redial etc? Help a new guy out. I’m not interested in this watch, but am trying to learn about scams, redials, etc.
Thanks

 

It’s a redial. The watch almost certainly had a standard silver dial and was likely heavily worn. As a result the dial was stripped back to brass and repainted and the case polished to remove the damage, which in the process has removed the sharp lines and edges.

If you know you’re buying a heavily restored and unoriginal watch, it’s fine for a few hundred quid, although most here, me firmly included, wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole at any price. But this price is ridiculous. I assume an inexperienced buyer think they’re paying a strong price for a good watch. In reality they’re paying a strong price for an utterly garbage watch.

 

This is a fantasy watch. Did not leave the factory like that. Not quite a franken as the dial was probably stripped and re done as a more desirable dial.

The other factor is the price. While the markets are volitile, If one got tired of such a watch, selling it (Something already difficult.) is even more so. Sort of like purchasing a house in the wrong neighborhood that someone has flipped with shoddy repairs. If it does not match the others, then it becomes awkward.

 

Google some photos of an authentic Seamaster 30 for sale from a reputable source like the OF private watch sales forum or The Omega Enthusiast and then compare those photos to the watch in question which is a very poor fantasy redial with a polished case. The difference between the two will be readily apparent.

 

Or …

“I just picked up this beauty and I think it’s a rare model because I can’t find another one just like it. I’d appreciate any info you experts can share.”

 

If you can't find another one like it, it's presumably a prototype, $$$$.

 

I am suffering from insomnia, and had to laugh at this thread. I am a newbie, and upon looking at the first photo in the thread, found this to be a very attractive watch. Now that I belong to this list, I would never make the purchase without benefit of the forum's wisdom. What do the small "T"s on either side of "Swiss Made" indicate? I notice the T on the right looks pretty shoddy.

 

Tritium as opposed to radium

 

Thanks.
In fact, the whole "Swiss Made" printing looks pretty bad. The first S is almost nothing but a blotch.