The things some watch buyers do...I wonder if that Gemini IV owner ever wishes he had bought that dial 😁
I too wonder! It’s such a beautiful and unique dial!
I’ll be keeping my original Tintin and saving it for special occasions.
Will be placing this dial on a 3570.50 for daily use.
I’m very excited!
And, I'm guessing right about now you've already had about 10 offers to buy the dial. We're opportunists, what can i say? 😁
I was tempted to PM and offer a trade for my White Italian Dial (they're selling for $875 new, but mine was used once before I found a Mitsukoshi dial). I'm not sure I would ever convert my watch from a Mitsukoshi mod to the Tin Tin though, and one of my modern Speedy's needs to stay with the stock black dial as I don't want to mod both.
Haha! I've had 3 inquiries, but I'm never selling.
I actually have a White Italian dial and matching handset as well that I've never had the chance to mount yet.
As it is, I've got the following:
- Hesalite Sandwich (3572.50)
- Original Gemini IV
- Original Tintin
- Original moonwatch (3570.50)
- Moonphase (3576.50)
Changing the 3570.50 to a Tintin will be a daily driver!
Tintin “build” sold for $5336 on EBay. Get it while you can I guess.
I believe production has now ceased for the Speedmaster "Tintin"
1. Do we have production dates/years for the Speedy Tintin?
2. Any guesstimates at production number - 400 was a figure I read in a forum post, but unconfirmed.
2. Can anyone add any Serial numbers outside of the 77.764.8xx - 77.797.9xx range
Cheers
Anyone posted a serial number starting with 77.8xx.xxx or higher yet?
Yep, most of the 778s started showing up around the start of 2017. Although it's a little dated now, there's a bit of a summary here...
https://omegaforums.net/threads/speedy-tintin-information-gathering.33387/page-79#post-1015136
Have I just not been paying attention, but “builds” seem to be popping up a lot. Tintin builds, seen a couple Gemini IV builds and others.
Interesting. I've only seen one Tintin build so far. Where have you been seeing them?
Tambowatches0 on eBay and Lewis Watch Co had one that sold on eBay. Tambo has an assortment of builds
I am sure that has been the only one - certainly the only one I know of.
If I'm not mistaken, there's a Tintin mod currently for sale on OF and another (different sellers) on WUS. Although these are dial mods as opposed to full replication (ie excluding the red lettered case back) - would these class as a Tintin build as defined here?
No. I would not accept as Tintin watch that have modified Tintin dial. I’d like to read others’ opinion as well.
