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This is why it pays off to surf the bay at odd hours!

 

That's a great find!

 

Damn... that's brilliant lol

 

I wish I was the buyer...

 

Best find was this lady in the WUS forum who paid $2 for an untouched speedmaster 2915. It fetched over $20k at auction a few years back.

 

Gah!?!

You're kidding!

 

She found it in a garage sale. Her mistake was she had it refurbished at Bienne where they relumed the dial among other things and polished the case. If not for this it would have fetched double.

 

Yeah...the best deal I've seen from a flea market/garage sale in NYC was a JLC alarm for $200.

 

http://forums.timezone.com/index.php?t=msg&th=979715&rid=6214#msg_3373277

Absolutely correct, sir! I think he ended up getting about $15K for it, so very close to the Speedmaster find.

Just the luck of the draw for the buyer,
gatorcpa

 

Although not a watch, this is the ultimate flea market find:

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/03/arts/declaration-of-independence-found-in-a-4-picture-frame.html

It later sold for $2.4 million (in 1991 dollars)

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/14/arts/declaration-of-independence-sells-for-2.4-million.html?src=pm

Enjoy,
gatorcpa

 

Spectacular. What flummoxes me is if you are an estate picker and you truly don't know anything about the item WHY would you sell it as a BIN? Why not let the market determine the price?

I scored a completely untouched Zenith A 386 like this at 2 AM one Tuesday morning in 2010 - paid a little over $1000 - not epochal, like the Patek, but about a fourth of its market value then. The dope seller then wrote me about a really cool quartz Bvlgari he was about to post in case I was interested.

 

Quick cash is my guess. It's good for us though!

 

No, no, it was this A 386:


look at the original finish and edges on the lugs:


A dedicated collector can hunt years before he finds an example like that and then pay through the nose, but Mr Genius Estate Picker has one fall into his hands and decides to dump it for one large, when Ebay offers him a near-ideal means of letting the market speak. Good for us, as Kyle says, but I'll tell you if I ever stumble across a stamp album or an old coin that I know doodly squat about, it'll be a seven day auction for sure.

 

I do want one of those... I am besotted with the new striking 10 version btw