http://catalog.antiquorum.com/catalog.html?action=load&lotid=306&auctionid=271

Antiquorum's description:

 

First off, we have a Seamaster Pie-pan 18K dial (non stepped 2849, the most common version) in an 18K Constellation case, with a Constellation crown, and a Cal 504 chronometer movement instead of the correct Cal 503, on a gold-plated beads of rice bracelet...

This is just a waste of good parts.

And antiquorum's grading of it is as follows:

Its like that crappy Seamaster Cloisonne they tried to flog recently: http://omegaforums.net/threads/antiquorum-another-neptune-seamaster-cloisonne.2576/

 

They are getting worse, if that is possible.

 

Its mind boggling that they're running an auction house for vintage watches and don't know the difference between a Seamaster and a Constellation, or can't see that this is a cobbled together combination of a wrecked Cal 504 Deluxe (bad enough to see) and a wrecked Cal 503 SMPP (Even worse).

They're not even willing to do a cursory google search to find Desmond's blog, this website's many discussions on these watches, or to even check the case numbers as to whether they match up, before putting their name behind this sale and certifying it as "very good" and original in their condition report.

Its just plain weak.

 

I think the qualification to be one of their associate experts is to have a very nice suit and wear a nice watch, probably a Patek. Hell I could do that.

 

Now you see the opportunity?

 

The unfrankening opportunity or the opportunity to do a better job than these guys?

 

Better job.

 

Give us some time, we're continuously working on various aspects of OF, and we have a lot planned.

Trev and I actually have a development meeting tomorrow to discuss some major new features we've got in the pipeline concerning buyer's resources and pre-purchase information to try to streamline and deal with a lot of the questions that come up repeatedly here, and that's just one of the projects we're working on.