In all my years of watch collecting, I've never had a Polerouter in hand. I only realised that this afternoon as I was looking at this one and thinking "this can't possibly be right" .... And then that second internal voice, the pitchfork welding one, says "yeah, but it's Universal Geneve".

So, is this the terrible redial I took it for? (All marks are in the glass, apart from the centre of the dial where someone's butchered it removing the hands).

Just to be clear, this isn't mine; I don't have any interest in buying it .... I'm just interested in expanding my knowledge.

 

A poor redial. Here is mine, for reference

 

Have a look at the Reference Gallery and the Frankens/Redials Gallery at www.UniversalGenevePolerouter.com to help train your eye for polerouter dials.

 

Just out of curiosity, what is the asking price?

 

There was no reserve and it hammered at £150 (£186 inclusive) .... cheap for parts, I thought. The three watches I had serious interest in just went for too much. It's the first auction in a long time where I've been outbid on watches I genuinely wanted.

 

Its an 569101-10 reference (gold capped version of 869101-10), so should have a caliber 69 microtor inside. Thats almost worth the buying price alone if its running with a nice rotor, so I guess you cant complain too much...!

 

I have no doubt but I was saving my money for either the Tudor or Benrus later in the sale ... and was outbid on both. I came away watchless but with a small haul of silver.