Phillips auction Speedmaster - a 3.000.000-fake?

Apple translation for those of us whose German is deficient:

Thanks.
Must be where the rumour I heard came from. I was told there were a lot of prototypes missing.

The museum and its inventory is arguably the single most valuable asset to a luxury brand, one that is trading on its history and its past achievements.

Therefore, it might be regarded as negligent management that three incompetent criminals were allowed free and unsupervised access to such a valuable asset. There appears to have been no inventory checks or supervision. The appointment of an ex airline pilot with no commercial experience to head the museum has proved to be a poor choice (As said under every collectors' breath at the time). Imagine if an older collector with OCD had been appointed instead - everything would be catalogued and numbered down to the screws. (Or is that just me, ha ha).

Who directed the head of the museum to over pay for a watch at auction, thus setting a false price in order to deceive the public and collectors? I would follow that up by asking if any other Omega watches were bought publicly for over inflated values? (This one, a 145.012 for an inexplicable $667,000 comes to mind, coincidently from the same auctioneer as the 2915). There was an Ultraman (with a dodgy extract and serial) at AQ as well as Black Racing, both selling for inexplicably high prices within a close timeframe.

Initially, I was angry at all involved, as I felt it had affected the value of my entire collection. I felt that all speedmasters were tainted by this episode. Then I realised it is a buying opportunity! Now I see interest and values returning, though it may be some time before we see a 2915 sell in auction for over $275,000. This was the highest price I saw for a genuine and fine, black dialled 2915.

The amount of old watchmakers draws full of Omega and Rolex dials and bezels that have been unearthed over the years.

Wasn’t there a bounty of old bezels found many years ago in a parts buy with DONs and Base 1000s that were worth a small fortune.

It was only 12-15 years ago when 321 Speedmasters were $1000 a pop on eBay and sat around for weeks or months.

10 years ago people were baking dials for tropical dials.

Whenever money comes into anything the dodgy characters turn up like clockwork 🕰️

Please see my opinion in this early post in this thread:


Nothing has changed, except Omega squealing just enough to try to deflect the blame from themselves.
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