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Lotus_Eater8815
·Oh, my. The eBay auction ended on that watch. Some poor sucker just spend $762 on a Frankenwatch. Poor bastard.
This can't be a Real Seamaster can it?
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graftdesign
·It’s the calligrapher mom. Her daughter could not have that much money.
You are funny Lotus....
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DaveK
··Yoda of YodelersOh, my. The eBay auction ended on that watch. Some poor sucker just spend $762 on a Frankenwatch. Poor bastard.
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efauser
·I hope the lottery numbers on the back of it paid off. 😎
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AriTheWatchmaker
·For many years dial refinishing companies were worried that they could be sued for infringement of copyrights and tradmarks if they did a perfect job, and that is because Rolex is shall we say rather Litigious.
Dial refinishing requires dies to be made to do the ballon-transfer process that was used to make the swiss dial orginially
. That means making a die that someone has to pay for etc. It seems they decided to cut to the chase with applied print letters or something rather than transfer printing.
Now the restoration of a piece allows legally for someone to remake exactly the logo, as long as its one at a time for a specific restoration. See ferrari logos, or Time Delay rolex dials for examples...but now companies have decided they dont need to limit themselves to making them one at a time...and we get Cursive Writing on the vintage dial...Fugly
Dial refinishing requires dies to be made to do the ballon-transfer process that was used to make the swiss dial orginially
. That means making a die that someone has to pay for etc. It seems they decided to cut to the chase with applied print letters or something rather than transfer printing.
Now the restoration of a piece allows legally for someone to remake exactly the logo, as long as its one at a time for a specific restoration. See ferrari logos, or Time Delay rolex dials for examples...but now companies have decided they dont need to limit themselves to making them one at a time...and we get Cursive Writing on the vintage dial...Fugly
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Walrus
·I can’t stick up for someone I don’t know but I do know one store run by some cool guys who just miss too many problems, especially redials, even obvious ones and sell the as original. They are not trying to rip anyone off they just miss these things themselves. Some of them are in very good condition besides the dial. I think they get too caught up in the name of a watch rather than the whole picture. I head down once in a while see if anything knew came in but I have no idea if I should mention the redials to them. I would think most of these people on eBay selling them know but I’m sure some buyers just think “oh boy an omega” and just bid. This is pure speculation on my part.
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graftdesign
·I would have to agree with you Walrus. I don't think an eBay seller with 100% rating would risk his rating on one transaction. I think the seller didn't really know what he had. He probably sells all kinds of things and watches aren't his specialty. Probably knows enough to be dangerous. Same with the buyer... uninformed and just looking for a nice looking Omega. Its easy to get caught up in it....
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Luxostore
·World is big. Not everybody needs or want to know if dial is good or not.
Always we look through the eye of a collector, but not everybody are collectors. Maybe are people trying to jump on the bandwagon.
That's way some of that frankens still have market.
Obviously, if you are a newbie trying to find the big deal... Just go back to the drawing board.
Always we look through the eye of a collector, but not everybody are collectors. Maybe are people trying to jump on the bandwagon.
That's way some of that frankens still have market.
Obviously, if you are a newbie trying to find the big deal... Just go back to the drawing board.
