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Another one, an 18K Century from 1964, one of the last of the 30mm movements:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Excellent-18K-Omega-Century-from-1964-/252057185504

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Sharp dog-leg lugs and clean dial.

Excellent starter Omega.
gatorcpa

I bought a '20s silver Longines from this seller. He's actually from Budapest, not Vienna as it states in the ad, and for some reason his listings are in UK pounds (!), but he seems like a reliable seller.
 
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I bought a '20s silver Longines from this seller. He's actually from Budapest, not Vienna as it states in the ad

Austro-Hungarian Empire, maybe? 😉

He has some interesting, but obscure pieces. The Corum Chronometer is interesting for those that collect that brand.

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I offered and sold this one starting at 880 euros ca. six months ago on ebay.de. domawolf seems to have some trustfull customers bidding 957 euros six days before ending... DSCF7052_zpsbhrsyvku.jpg DSCF7054_zpsugtgcxso.jpg DSCF7056_zpsd7z5ajum.jpg
 
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I have been watching this SM for quite a while now - still unsold... the condition is collect-worthy but the price is ridiculously high IMHO
Take care with this seller, I bought a watch from him with undescribed dial damage. When contacted about it he wasn't interested at all
 
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Could you explain the nature of the suspicious bidding?

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=252057185504&showauto=true

A "ladder bid" by a bidder with low or zero feedback = suspicious, in my book. Multiple ladder bids means watch out for a shill.

A ladder bid is a series of incremental bids that simply frustrates a real bidder into making their highest bid earlier. Makes the piece look more desirable than it otherwise would be to possibly attract a newbie overbid.

This is why I always recommend a sniper program like Gixen.com
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http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=252057185504&showauto=true

A "ladder bid" by a bidder with low or zero feedback = suspicious, in my book. Multiple ladder bids means watch out for a shill.

A ladder bid is a series of incremental bids that simply frustrates a real bidder into making their highest bid earlier. Makes the piece look more desirable than it otherwise would be to possibly attract a newbie overbid.

This is why I always recommend a sniper program like Gixen.com
gatorcpa

A big plus for Gixen. Another worry is a high shill bid (or creeping bids) with an immediate withdrawal after having exposed your highest bid. They get away by retracting a bid by claiming they entered the wrong amount.
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wsfarrell
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If you click "show automatic bids" on that auction, you see that almost all of s***8 bids are automatic. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that imply that s***8 bid (say) $500 when the watch was at $100, then kept getting bumped up automatically when others bid?
 
blubarb
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Early bidding is open to rorting. Mostly nibble bidding in order to find out where the max bid is. Then when they do, they don't want to pay the max and retract their bids. This is exactly the reason why I snipe in the last few seconds of an auction. Snipe in the last five seconds. The nibblers can then find out my max bid when it's too late to do anything about it.
Of course there is always the seller who cancels your bid and then closes the auction because they weren't getting the price they wanted. So then they relisted it with a reserve.
 
gatorcpa
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If you click "show automatic bids" on that auction, you see that almost all of s***8 bids are automatic. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that imply that s***8 bid (say) $500 when the watch was at $100, then kept getting bumped up automatically when others bid?
True, but if you look closely, the same two bidders have a lot of the automatic bids.
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wsfarrell
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s***8 has bid on watches from four different sellers in the last 8 days. He's a busy shill!
 
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