Speedmaster Pro 145012-67 Thoughts?

Archer · Jan 30, 2022

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Thats' a bit obtuse.

No, the point is that a lot of these watches were worn as watches, not statusy jewelry and when things wore out they got taken in and fixed. That doesn't mean that it was owned by somebody obsessed with a DON vs. DNN bezel. they simply got a new bezel because it was bent. Now whether the watchmaker put the correct year bezel on it who knows?

In the "normal" world a lot of people own things, and when they need to be fixed, they take them to be "fixed". they are not sitting there agonizing over whether the part is the exactly correct part?

It’s completely normal for a watchmaker to put the correct replacement parts on a watch during service. If the owner cares or not really doesn’t speak to the service being done in the normal (proper) manner.

Even if the owner didn’t care, the watchmaker should have...

Dan S · Jan 30, 2022

Archer
It’s completely normal for a watchmaker to put the correct replacement parts on a watch during service. If the owner cares or not really doesn’t speak to the service being done in the normal (proper) manner.

Even if the owner didn’t care, the watchmaker should have...

It's difficult to follow the two threads that are going on, and maybe now merged, but if you are referring to the bezel and hands replacement, I 100% agree that there is an important distinction to be made, not only from the watchmaker perspective, but from the owner/collector perspective.

Replacing a part with an authentic Omega part that is the correct service part for the watch is totally acceptable, even though it could potentially devalue the watch from a collectible standpoint. However, installing parts that are incorrect for the reference (belonging to a completely different watch), just because they may be lying around the shop and happen to fit ... well that is not an acceptable repair IMO and results in what is commonly called a Franken-watch. Sure, it gets the watch running, but it's not the proper way to fix a watch, especially when the correct parts are readily available.

However, in practical terms, there is little difference between them with respect to value in this case, since neither the service bezel nor the incorrect hands has any significant value.

Archer · Jan 30, 2022

Dan S
It's difficult to follow the two threads that are going on, and maybe now merged, but if you are referring to the bezel and hands replacement, I 100% agree that there is an important distinction to be made, not only from the watchmaker perspective, but from the owner/collector perspective.

You can take my comments to be rather universal, and not specific to any watch.

My comments aren’t about value, but about the idea that it’s “normal” to put incorrect parts (regardless of how they are defined) on a customer’s watch.

collector1946 · Jan 31, 2022

It's worth £5k all day long however, a service, new correct hands (aged), a re-lume (aged), possibly a vintage replacement Crown and a new or polished Crystal.. , the work needed to bring the watch to a good but flawed saleable state would cost about £1.5k to £2k and then ad a good Don Bezel another £2k at least based on the poor pictures ....it would be worth near £8k possibly..... sure many on the forum will be enraged at my flippant assesment but it's just my point of veiw. Put it on ebay for £5k as a buy it now the right "collector" may have most parts "above" and at £5k it's on the money may be get an Extract of Archives from Omega to help the sale along with some history about the watch on the listing.

Dan S · Jan 31, 2022

collector1946
It's worth £5k all day long ...

I don't disagree with this, assuming the OP has the original 1039 bracelet with 516 endlinks as he indicated in his first post.

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