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  1. Melhadary Dec 5, 2016

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    Greetings All,

    I am in a bit of a predicament and need all the knowledge and history I can summon up related to the original sale price of specific vintage gold & gold-capped Omegas. I remember seeing a few links here and around the internet related to this topic and was hoping you could assist me to determine the individual sales price in dollars of the following watches at the initial release/sale date, for quick urgent reference:

    -18k YGold Centenary 2499 343RG
    -18k YGold Centenary 2499 28.10
    -18k RGold Fab Suisse 2577 SM Chronometer
    -14k YGold 2518 SM Chronometer
    -14k RGold 2849 SM Calendar Date@3
    -YGCap 2846 Grand Luxe SM
    -YGCap 2577 SM Chronometer
    -YGCap 2627 SM Calendar Date@6
    -YGCap Bezel 14733 SM
    -RGCap Black Dial 2493 SM
    -RGCap 2975 SM

    I know this is quite the task for such specific individual watches, but at this point, any assistance with quick information/scans/pdfs/articles/links/etc available on-hand will be extremely helpful.

    Many thanks in advance.
     
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  2. efauser I ♥ karma!!! Dec 5, 2016

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  3. Melhadary Dec 5, 2016

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    Very much appreciated efauser !
    AMAZING reference.... That's what I get for staying away from Omegaforums for so long! :whipped:
     
  4. gemini4 Hoarder Of Speed et alia Dec 5, 2016

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    Awesome site.!!
     
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  5. kingsrider Thank you Sir! May I have another? Dec 5, 2016

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    The Naligazone site is easier to navigate than Omega's Vintage.
     
  6. gatorcpa ΩF InvestiGator Staff Member Dec 5, 2016

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    It's a version of the Omega Vintage Database, frozen in time from about 2010. The current version has a lot more references, but less information on each one.

    If you are trying to convert from vintage Swiss francs to current US dollars, don't just look at inflation. You need to adjust for the depreciation of the dollar against the franc over the period of time. Back in the 1960's a US dollar bought about 4 Francs. Today it's about even par.

    So if a website tells you that a price should have gone up by a factor of 5:1 based on a dollar to dollar inflation measurement, the real conversion is more like 20:1 when you're moving from Francs to US dollars.

    Another way to put this is to look for the economic power or relative output worth of the older amount, not just the dollar inflation measurement based on the consumer price index (CPI).

    https://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/result.php?year_source=1968&amount=175&year_result=2016

    The above shows the approximate US price of a new Speedmaster in 1968, inflated to 2016 dollars. While still a dollar to dollar measurement, you'll note that the relative output worth is very close to the 20:1 ratio above.

    Hope this helps,
    gatorcpa
     
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  7. Melhadary Dec 12, 2016

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    Many thanks, gatorcpa!
    Great information where it is valuably needed [emoji846]


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