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BTW we might have to have a think about how best to set this up, we have an "Ebay recommended" thread for Omega watches, which is good buys worth picking up on the bay, and we keep ratshit watches out of it, so its strictly good examples of Omegas and brief critique of them. Might want to do the same with Zenith, and keep the bad watches in separate threads, what do you guys think?

This thread is getting a bit difficult, especially for zenith novices!
 
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Forget the Victorious. Get yourself the far more rare Notorious: Zenith Notorious.

Funny!

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"I'm wearing my Notorious today"

What, do you want to be confused for a member of Duran Duran?

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That has to be a redial.
Are you sure? Looks original to me but then I don't really know nearly enough about zeniths
 
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You're certainly getting into this rather enthusiastically, another ebay search term to try 50 times a day lol
 
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You're certainly getting into this rather enthusiastically, another ebay search term to try 50 times a day lol

Too much unfinished business with vintage omegas and still too much to learn there still. But glad to help out in the zenith forum which it looks to me to be growing quite fast.
 
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Too much unfinished business with vintage omegas and still too much to learn there still. But glad to help out in the zenith forum which it looks to me to be growing quite fast.
On the other hand, some smart picks now could save you a lot of cash once the Zenith top shelfs that people don't already know about (aside from Cal 135s and A386s and such) start going up like pie-pans and Speedmasters have.
 
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Zenith equivalent to the deluxe constellation?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/130810992007

The Captain line was indeed Zenith's luxury market player, equivalent to Constellations and Conquests. One of the members (not me) is...ah...interested in this, and will draw blood to get it. Enter the arena at your own risk.

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Looks like a clean 2 register chronograph.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/300828777171

Indeed it does, although I've never seen this model. The various parts check out, including the ExPark movement, but there is something I don't like about the subdial printing. Seems a little fuzzy. Not saying its not authentic, but it makes me a little gunshy.

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Not sure about this one...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/121033560849

Raging franken. This is a dial and movement from an 18K white gold Captain DeLuxe in the characteristic "turtle" case. Should look like this.
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The case has obviously been melted.

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Reminds me a bit of the mid-60s cal. 321 seamaster chronographs

http://www.ebay.com/itm/350660790437

One version of Zenith's workhorse chronograph 1960-1969. Bits look correct including crown and often-replaced hands. Looks like it's seen hard use tho. And its from Argentina, not from one of the two sellers that I know as reliable. Bit if a gamble, but might be nice pickup. Buy at your own risk.

Here's an NOS two dial square-pusher version in 18K that I happen to have picked up a few years ago.
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On the other hand, some smart picks now could save you a lot of cash once the Zenith top shelfs that people don't already know about (aside from Cal 135s and A386s and such) start going up like pie-pans and Speedmasters have.

That's an interesting topic - I doubt that there will ever be the collector market for Zenith that there is for Omega, mostly because of name recognition, but also because of lack of documentation and support from the factory. The index pieces will go up to be sure, but it's not clear to me that prices will rise on a broad front.
 
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That's an interesting topic - I doubt that there will ever be the collector market for Zenith that there is for Omega, mostly because of name recognition, but also because of lack of documentation and support from the factory. The index pieces will go up to be sure, but it's not clear to me that prices will rise on a broad front.

I think this forum at the rate it's going will play some small role in elevating vintage zeniths - more and more enthusiasts will be exposed and educated about the merits and pitfalls of this corner of the vintage watch world. Vintage omegas were the same way - Desmond talked about constellations; Chuck Maddox, Eric Katoso, GerryL and many others about speedmasters; Bill Sohne, Ben, Erich, Franco and others about manual wind chronometres; Bill Sohne about bumper chronometres and so forth and so on. Perhaps in some small way we can emulate that in this forum.
 
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Bill Sohne, yes... a few tasty Zeniths there as well... wish he would adopt me.
 
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Um, well... you see... what ha-happened was...

IT WAS JUST SO SHINY!

You'll get no argument from me. Best excuse to buy a gold watch ever! 😜

Nice snag man. We have to get you Zenith guys either up to NY or down to Tampa for one of the GTG's - whether it's one of the annual big shindigs or a smaller version with beer, wings and waitresses in skimpy outfits.
 
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