Speedy experts please chime in! "Albino" Speedmaster Mod

Cant give any input just wanted to say looks nice and I hope the deal goes the way you desire.

Those pictures are a bit deceptive, remember the dial is cream and not white. I had one of these dials but I just could not get used to the cream colour and moved onto another mod instead. You used to be able to buy those dials for about $500 but now I've seen them in the $1000 to $1500 bracket which is pretty expensive imo.

Personally I wouldnt price a modded watch much above the actual watch it was modded from.

Watches are emotional objects, it's hard to price that factor in to get to the 'correct' price for any watch, much less modified watches. Last year I bought a brand new modified Speedmaster from Adam Lewis in Perth; new Omega 35th Apollo 11 dial & hands, straight writing back, 50th Apollo 11 crown and pushers, Silver Snoopy cordura strap and Omega deployant buckle, a watch he completed on 12/31/19 as a final tribute for the 50th anniversary of the landing. It included the original bracelet, the suitcase box and all accessories but NOT the original dial, hands, back, pushers or crown. How do you price the watch? Depends on how much one wants the watch in the modified state. For me the Aussie dollar was weak last year so that worked in my favor; the watch landed on my wrist in Texas via DHL from Perth in 10 days at about 6% less than the US list price for the normal black dial version. To me it was a very fair value and I'm very happy with the watch, a conversion done by an authorized Omega repair specialist so I know it was done right. The loss of the original dial and back really doesn't concern me, it's not like I'd ever reconvert back to stock. OP will have to decide what the true value of a modified Albino is TO HIM.

I'd also be very interested to hear how common this practice is as well. I was interested in that recent sale but the lemania movement turned me right off. Seems to turn a custom speedy into a full franken IMHO

A completely stock Speedmaster was purchased from an AD in Perth, WA in 12/19, and that was the basis for the conversion by Adam. The original Warranty and Pictogram cards were included in the sale but the Omega warranty was void, of course, but Adam gave his own two year warranty. The watch is complete Omega, all replacement parts were new Omega (i.e., no non-Omega parts were used).

I’ve seen fakes with Lemania movements in them (where the original markings were removed from the main plate and crude Omega stamping was addd), plus some projects made up of genuine Speedmaster cases and unmodified Lemania movements in them.

This example takes it to a different level, and reading the sales thread I’m not sure how clear it was that this had a modified movement when originally sold. The seller first says it’s all genuine Omega parts, and only later clarified that the movement is a combination of parts, so it almost didn’t appear that he knew this prior to the sale maybe?