Not often you see one of these come up for sale with the box and papers, and in what appears to be good condition.

Any issues? Is it as good as it appears? Service hands? Cropped end links?

It will be interesting to see where this lands, especially after recent auctions.
Weak £ will be a bonus for overseas bidders.

What figure do you think sell for?

 

i can't believe an auction house would take such dog shit photos for a watch of this value.

 

To me the hands are too short (and should have triangle lume inserts, but maybe rectangular ones are correct...can’t say I have seen them on 105.002’s)

 

Don’t all the lume plots look wet on the dial?

 

dial looks relumed to me and hands too short.

 

As usual I have a strong doubt on those papers

 

Hard to tell from the picture..I asssume you are right

 

Perhaps its a case of an unscrupulous person shoving a dodgy watch into a small auction, hoping to catch a pair of gamblers.

This watch has a few flags

 

Normally I'd be peeved that the watch was discussed here prior to going under the hammer, but in this case it's probably a good thing. I asked for clearer pictures of the paperwork (copied here for anyone interested). The hands are a sign to me that it's been potentially messed with. The paperwork:



I’m not convinced that the dial has been relumed (to address what was mentioned above).

 

I see the following flags:
- The Hour and minute hands. Too short and looks like radium, should be tritium.
- The box is of a later model than expected.
- The papers, the word “replace” that is written on top?!

But other than that I think the watch itself looks quite attractive.

 

I’ve been trying to understand the “179W” written on the outer box. Anyone have a clue?

 

Two different No. 6 endlinks. I'm not any sort of an expert on them, but those "6" couldn't be more different looking.

 

The ink on the papers looks awfully fresh...

 

Yeah, the papers and the box are unconvincing. You’re buying the watch.

Of course, if you don’t believe the papers, then you have to conclude that somebody, somewhere along the line, engaged in that manipulation. What else did this person do while the watch was in his hands, as long as he was at it?

Interesting how suspect papers can actually diminish the value of a piece.

(I wish I hadn’t seen so many blank sets of Omega papers on eBay in the last couple of years.)

 

Are the papers and box period correct?.

 

I suspect the Papers, are legitimate

There was a Jewellers of that name, in Oxford at that time…and indeed still there

I do not believe that either the outer, or inner box, belong to that watch

The watch itself,… is a mess of inconsistencies

Is it bait ?…I have no idea…but this old Pike is pursuing a Speedmaster in Tehran,(?), at the moment

 

Case back is a 105002 but the papers state the model number is 2998. Could this be a genuine error?

 

£13,500 at the hammer