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Dan S
·Personally, I find this particular damaged dial to be unattractive because of the uneven blotchy spotting. And keep in mind that while the case is gold, it is 9K, which has very low gold content. Overall, this would not be a desirable way to start a collection in my opinion. I suggest being patient and participating on the forum for a while, you will learn a lot. Also, there is a good private sales forum here where collectors often sell nice watches.
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lillatroll
·Try to find the best condition watch for your budget. I think a dress watch in this condition would be a quick pass for 99.9% of collectors and even if your budget isn’t very high, you could probably do a lot better than this for the same money. Reading the post “learn how to fish” at the top of this sub forum has lots of good advice for new collectors. The advice from Dan S above about looking in the private watches for sale posts is an excellent place to start. You still need to do your due diligence, but there are more honest, good people there than you will find on ebay or other such sites.
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RoadRunner73
·The dial doesn't look attractive to me either, and the movement seems to have seen some hard life; it's a pass for me - if you (too) like patina dials, go for some more homogeneous effects of time.
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Davidt
·That dial won’t look attractive in person (it doesn’t really look attractive in pictures) and crucially, there’s no need to settle for a dial like this as these cases are relatively water resistant and there are many examples with good, original dials. Go for one of those.
