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larryganz
·On that i will agree with you. And that is exactly what i tried to do, i placed a FS Post here on OF thinking somebody might be interested in the watch, but after 1 week it seems there was not much interest. So i thought screw it, and withdrew the ad. At the price i was offering it for, i thought i would better keep it for myself.
I think this exact model was build from the beginning till the end of the 90s, so was offered with Tritium and Luminova dial, therefore its not like some vintage watch from the 70s fitted with luminova dial, that would be really off.
It looks like you decided that there is not enough value in the watch as is to make it worthwhile to sell as is, not without going well below the price you want. So, in your case since they came with Tritium and Luminova, it might not be a bad idea after all to do the dial swap if you'll keep it, wear it more, and it makes you happy. How close to the cutoff date between Tritium and Luminova is your watch?
In my case, about 5 years ago I had a 1991 Rolex Polar Explorer II with Tritium lume and no patina, that was so dim that I could almost see something was there in the dark but not tell the time. I bought it here for $3600 and the seller and my son could read the time if their eyes were totally acclimated to the dark, but my eyes were just too old. It would have cost over $1300 to service it with new dial and hands, so I left it alone. Then I traded it in at the AD for a 2014 Explorer II, and got $2700 for the trade plus saved $200 taxes on the trade value as well. The next day I decided that I could never replace the 91 Exp II for close to the $2900 that I saved on the new one and bought it back. It just wasn't worth letting it go for that little.
However, instead of upgrading the dial and hands, about a year later I got $3500 in trade value towards a mint 2005 40mm Explorer II that did have working lume.
