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Niall Dempster
·Hi everyone,
Hope you are all enjoying your weekends. I'm new to the forum having recently become increasingly into (Omega) watches. I have picked up a few Speedmasters, and quite to take delivery of an interesting one this morning: a Schumacher Racing (3559.32.00) with a nice 'Paul Newman' panda dial and date aperture at 6.
Condition is bit worse than expected from the online listing, with a (superficial) scratch on the crystal and some reasonably-sized dings to the bezel and lugs. The price was probably fair at around £5800 inc box and papers, spring guard tool and extra leather strap. There don't seem to be many around.
I think I am ok with the dings to the steel, but the sapphire crystal scratch catches the light at certain angles. It looks very superficial and I'm a bit torn now.
Do you think it'd polish out? Any recommendations for UK repair / approx prices for a new crystal (if required) +/- new bezel? If I got them replaced, might I be as well to send to Omega for a full service? Finally, am I devaluing it in replacing original parts? Grateful for any help - I'm a bit clueless about these things as my watches so far have been new/pretty much as-new condition.
Hope you are all enjoying your weekends. I'm new to the forum having recently become increasingly into (Omega) watches. I have picked up a few Speedmasters, and quite to take delivery of an interesting one this morning: a Schumacher Racing (3559.32.00) with a nice 'Paul Newman' panda dial and date aperture at 6.
Condition is bit worse than expected from the online listing, with a (superficial) scratch on the crystal and some reasonably-sized dings to the bezel and lugs. The price was probably fair at around £5800 inc box and papers, spring guard tool and extra leather strap. There don't seem to be many around.
I think I am ok with the dings to the steel, but the sapphire crystal scratch catches the light at certain angles. It looks very superficial and I'm a bit torn now.
Do you think it'd polish out? Any recommendations for UK repair / approx prices for a new crystal (if required) +/- new bezel? If I got them replaced, might I be as well to send to Omega for a full service? Finally, am I devaluing it in replacing original parts? Grateful for any help - I'm a bit clueless about these things as my watches so far have been new/pretty much as-new condition.