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Rasputin Rasputin
I’m not sure what’s driving the price of this Connie so high esp with several days to go. “Private listing” bidders 😉 Omega marker appears oxidized.

Looks like massive shill-bidding
 
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Rasputin Rasputin
I’m not sure what’s driving the price of this Connie so high esp with several days to go. “Private listing” bidders 😉 Omega marker appears oxidized.
The arrowheads also show signs of rust. Unusual combo of gold medaillon and steel arrowheads BTW.
I guess the good dial condition drives the price up.
 
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mac_omega mac_omega
Looks like massive shill-bidding
How can you tell?
 
mac_omega
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felsby felsby
How can you tell?

it is very common when the bidders are hidden behind "private listing" - one further hint is when the price climbs so early, long before end of auction.

The "experienced bidders" drop their bid in the very last seconds.

BTW the gold medallion you questioned is very common and legit on this kind of Conny
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mac_omega mac_omega
it is very common when the bidders are hidden behind "private listing" - one further hint is when the price climbs so long before end of auction.
The "experienced bidders" drop their bid in the very last seconds.
BTW the gold medallion you questioned is very common and legit on this kind of Conny

Yes, most of us bid 5s before closure to stop n00bs increasing their bids. But if there are many interested n00bs?

The gold medaillon is very common indeed, I just thought it used to match the dial markers (I have a steel connie with rose gold medaillon and rose gold shark tooth markers).
 
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I like the 552 dress Seamasters and can't see anything wrong with this, which looks like a good value BIN with proof of service. Disregarding of course the same type of "aftermarket" (ie fake ) bracelet as on the last Seamaster I mentioned here (from a different seller). Obviously I don't know how professional the service was but nothing leaps out to me as wrong with the movement. If I've missed anything, someone please point it out.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1968-OME...769558?hash=item1caf65d056:g:128AAOSwD5Za1OIT

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Edward53
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mac_omega mac_omega
it is very common when the bidders are hidden behind "private listing" - one further hint is when the price climbs so long before end of auction.

The "experienced bidders" drop their bid in the very last seconds.

BTW the gold medallion you questioned is very common and legit on this kind of Conny

Shill bids on this listing:
$100.00 - 1150.00
$1200.00 - 2000.00
$2088.00 - ?
Just MHO.
 
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felsby felsby
The gold medaillon is very common indeed, I just thought it used to match the dial markers (I have a steel connie with rose gold medaillon and rose gold shark tooth markers).

There are no white gold/steel medallions on these - if the markers are as this one, I'd expect a yellow gold medallion too. The markers are not steel, though. I believe they are rhodium plated white gold?
 
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ConElPueblo ConElPueblo
There are no white gold/steel medallions on these - if the markers are as this one, I'd expect a yellow gold medallion too. The markers are not steel, though. I believe they are rhodium plated white gold?
You are correct, sir.
gatorcpa
 
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ConElPueblo ConElPueblo
There are no white gold/steel medallions on these - if the markers are as this one, I'd expect a yellow gold medallion too. The markers are not steel, though. I believe they are rhodium plated white gold?

I also suspected white gold markers. Yet they show clear signs of corrosion?
 
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Edward53 Edward53
Shill bids on this listing:
$100.00 - 1150.00
$1200.00 - 2000.00
$2088.00 - ?
Just MHO.
This is not shill bidding, it's proxy bidding. eBay has very sophisticated methods of detecting shill bidding; knowing the IP address of all bidders is just the beginning. This eBay seller with nearly 38,000 sales and 100% feedback is NOT going to risk losing his account so he can get an extra few hundred dollars for one watch.

To be specific: Say a watch is sitting at $100 and I have a proxy bid in at $800. Joe puts in a bid of $1,000 and the price jumps to $801 (just above my "hidden" bid). Sam puts in a bid of $1,500 and the price jumps to $1,001 (just above Joe's bid). And so forth.
 
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ConElPueblo ConElPueblo
Odd that it didn't come in a Constellation box... But seeing that it was sold three years after production the correct box could well have been lost at the dealer. I would have been sorely tempted by this. Luckily I didn't see it early enough to buy it 😁
Snap...great price for condition with box and papers ...top draw IMO and it was inUK
 
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