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Those were the first things I noticed. The crooked dates indicate that it needs to be serviced. I wouldn’t consider the hands being in the same position as a red flag. It’s a manually wound watch and it could be the seller wound it a couple times, started the chrono, and let it run until it was out of power. It’s possible that the watch could be non running, but even if it is a working watch, the dates indicate it needs a service anyways.
This was my first red flag

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Pretty special watch for a seller that’s been on for 4 years with 1 transaction…but everyone has to start somewhere I guess.
Regardless- this won’t be an inexpensive movement to service and parts are probably pretty scarce if it needs them.
 
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And one of those parts is gonna be a matching pusher. Right now that Wakmann reminds me of this:
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Crabs creep me the fυck out! Spiders of the sea…but yummy
 
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And one of those parts is gonna be a matching pusher. Right now that Wakmann reminds me of this:
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Crabs creep me the fυck out! Spiders of the sea…but yummy

Let me indulge in a little thread drift. I have published a paper in Chronobiology International on the circalunidian clocks of those crabs (fiddler crabs). They live in the intertidal zone and have a clock in tune with the tides, i.e. a lunar day, a circalunidian clock.
 
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Let me indulge in a little thread drift. I have published a paper in Chronobiology International on the circalunidian clocks of those crabs (fiddler crabs). They live in the intertidal zone and have a clock in tune with the tides, i.e. a lunar day, a circalunidian clock.
Fascinating, creepy & yummy
 
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Crabs creep me the fυck out! Spiders of the sea…but yummy

Are you then familiar with the strange way that multiple lines of animals keep evolving to be crab shaped? Creepy crab morphology is destiny.

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And one of those parts is gonna be a matching pusher. Right now that Wakmann reminds me of this:
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omg i didnt catch up this. Thats why no one buys it yet lol.
 
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wow super cool. Looking around, this calibers dont are super expensive to service right?
It depends on where you are located and what you consider expensive I suppose! 😀
It's a chronograph with a calendar complication, so for example, $600-700USD + parts for the service.
 
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I thought chronos were more like 800 to 1200USD. I think I am about 400USD or so into parts for the Val72. And it is still in pieces. It adds up 35 here 75 there and before you know it ...

Had I the capitol I would have been on that one in a heartbeat.
 
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I thought chronos were more like 800 to 1200USD. I think I am about 400USD or so into parts for the Val72. And it is still in pieces. It adds up 35 here 75 there and before you know it ...

Had I the capitol I would have been on that one in a heartbeat.
It'll be perhaps more with the calendar complication? It may well get into more than $700, but I'd treat the $600-700 as a base number from an independent WM in the US, east coast.
 
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Cool little hand winder with a funky dial for 50euro.

https://omegaforums.net/threads/vintage-watch-aimè-manual-winding-€-50.173419/
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When you buy a company like Bulova (and their catalog), how can you not.
 
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