About 10,000 of them. This would be the most I've spent on a single watch and, while I'm not dwelling on it or doubting the watch or myself, I would hate myself if I bought this and then found it was "wrong". My real issue is that I've not seen inside it yet. Going on the story, the case might say it's as early as 2998-2. Obviously, if that turns out to be true, everything else is wrong. My current concern is that, as I was reading it, the handset is earlier than the dial - if only by a year or so. I know that we can't be hard and fast on everything with these older watches but my question was/is whether anyone has seen a correct example with those hands on that dial?
$10k...take a roll. Looks good to me...$3-4k for a nice DON and you have a firecracker. The gambles are fun
If it's correct, that's a steal. I would accept that hand configuration on a -3 or -4. I'd expect the earlier dial with short markers on the minute subdial on a -2. If it's a -3 or -4, I think $12,900 is a pretty good price, assuming the rest all jives.
Thanks both for the replies. It's always a good feeling to get a little confirmation. As for the price, I thought I was being very fair but maybe prices are moving faster than I realised? Still, with it being unopened for at least two decades and the price of DONs, I think it might need half as much again sinking into it.
I'd hope that it's not a -2 in this case. Finding a base 500 bezel, not that hard. Finding a base 1000 bezel, not so much.