Congratulations! That is a very nice example you purchased. M

 

wow! spectacular purchase and spectacular example

but. . you are a watch collector ? you actually like and collect watches ? according to OF i thought the only people who bought at Phillips are money launderers ?

 

who’s that OF guy?

 

Yes, real watch collector here. I collect and seldomly let go of pieces. I'm not in the vintage watch world to make money. I'm just a collector that may have spent too much because the watch really spoke to me. Reality is often much less interesting than people think.

 

love it. of course. . i was joking (sometimes doesn't come through on a message board). there is a vocal crew here who thinks Phillips is all fake news. they are of course wrong!

 

It was definitely clear that it was a joke. Sometimes people get carried away with theories about auctions. Honestly, it is really easy to bid via phones, computers and apps, so I'm not surprised that sometimes people will make mistakes and pay too much.

 

Omega Forums?

 

yay - my post was also supposed to be a troll joke - I’ve been here long enough not to take it all too seriously anymore

Back to the topic, you’ve had a great start here. The place is called OF but you’ll have a lot of fun here even if Omega is not the center of your interest

 

As was my reply. Haha. Thank you, looking forward to it.

 

A lovely example of a tropical A384

 

Jaw dropping beautiful!! Congrats

 

Although it is beautiful, but at the same time expensive. i will hope that the watch will bring the owner pleasure.

 

I keep coming back to this thread to look at that watch some more. Sigh.

 

Me too. Sometimes pictures capture more details than the naked eye can see. I'm particularly happy about the intact and even lume, which even glows consistently under a blacklight. I'm not sure why so many of these watches have very dark lume from aging.

 

congratulations and wear it in good health

 

There’s one on c24 at the moment. Seller claims it sold for 38k euro at Phillips. Not quite as nice as but the dealer is “only” asking 24k euro for it...

 

Interesting... Attached is the link for the recent Phillips Zenith sales. https://www.phillips.com/artist/13091/zenith

The only non-tropical A384 among those listed as sold was the above near perfect example, with original blue jelly still on the case. It went for 40k CHF.

 

Philips is always way higher

 

Zenith probably bought it

 

from a plan view i get what you mean but the side profile of the case is rather nicely and aggressively styled.