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JwRosenthal
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Anthony Lane Anthony Lane
This Hammy would look good on my wrist whilst hanging out the window of my '76 Coupe DeVille. I don't actually own a '76 Coupe DeVille, just sayin'...
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You can fly over speed bumps and not feel a thing.
 
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adrian scott adrian scott
Great car. Bigger than my house.
You can fit 4 mafia stool pigeons in the trunk with the shovels and tarps- purpose built.
 
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You can fit 4 mafia stool pigeons in the trunk with the shovels and tarps- purpose built.
The 4 that you knocked unconscious with your gold-brick bracelet Hamilton?

Leave the watch. Take the canoli.
 
Vitezi
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A well-preserved example of a mid-1950s Seastar in a wearable 34mm size:
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This watch retains its original signed crown, correct hands, nicely-aged lume dots, and probably the aftermarket strap it was originally sold with. For those who are getting into vintage watch collecting, this is a solid first choice: An in-house designed manual-wind movement, applied hour markers, applied logo, all-steel case, and a beautifully-preserved dial with that classic 3-9-12 layout.

The BIN price of US $240 is just about right for a watch in this condition.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/175281235018
 
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Ok folks this one is a bit different than most, but represents quite a bit of value for the opening bid. Auction closes in 3 hours - It's already been listed once before with no bids, was relisted at $3K again, and has since been reduced to $2700. There are 4 watches in this lot:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/284810586890?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11010.m1951.l7534

A vintage Longines with a date pip - never seen anything like this myself before, but it's not really my area:
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A Le Jour PVD Chronograph - guessing 7750 based? I didn't look too closely:

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A blue dial Omega 1160118:

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And the real rare bird - a Breitling 3865 skin diver with the most desireable configuration of a broad arrow hand:

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Here's a Fratello article discussing that watch, and from what I can tell the value on it is approximately $2700-3K on it's own.

https://www.fratellowatches.com/tbt-unusually-common-and-forgotten-skin-diver-breitling-ref-3865/

Anyway, I thought someone here might be interested - seems to be the rare value on ebay right now, even if not particularly cheap.
 
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Not on eBay but on the Instagram account of a fellow member 👍

Very fun watch
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Another in that style
https://www.ebay.com/itm/143870175416
The service cost me more than the watch did (and the service took forever, there was a tricky problem which only showed when the watch was cased, so my watchmaker had to do many iterations of troubleshooting, ordering parts, etc.). And then the lume on the hands broke, and I decided to relume, matching the color that was in the hands before. But I think it was all worth it.
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The service cost me more than the watch did (and the service took forever, there was a tricky problem which only showed when the watch was cased, so my watchmaker had to do many iterations of troubleshooting, ordering parts, etc.). And then the lume on the hands broke, and I decided to relume, matching the color that was in the hands before. But I think it was all worth it.
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Good investment!!
 
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TDBK TDBK
The service cost me more than the watch did (and the service took forever, there was a tricky problem which only showed when the watch was cased, so my watchmaker had to do many iterations of troubleshooting, ordering parts, etc.). And then the lume on the hands broke, and I decided to relume, matching the color that was in the hands before. But I think it was all worth it.
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Great looking
TDBK TDBK
The service cost me more than the watch did (and the service took forever, there was a tricky problem which only showed when the watch was cased, so my watchmaker had to do many iterations of troubleshooting, ordering parts, etc.). And then the lume on the hands broke, and I decided to relume, matching the color that was in the hands before. But I think it was all worth it.
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great looking arnex. Looks to be the same case and bezel as the Mitchell diver . I have the Wakmann variant with that hardened rubber like bezel . I treat it from time to time with a rubber conditioner. These can break when they get to dried out .
 
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