https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/...0985/lot-43071198-6ed6-46f9-9d0c-a8da009babd8

Looks good to my eyes, but firmly outside of my budget. Thought someone here might appreciate it though (and bid on it perhaps).

 

Lower pusher? Dial looks great though.

Without a serial number...

 

No pictures of movement is bizarre. I think it could be a fun project or a very expensive project, depends what you are into.

 

Auction houses rarely have movement shots.

 

Perhaps but on their site it says they have never taken the caseback off so who knows what is inside.

 

Not a lot to go on without a case back shot, (single or double step)

My guess is it could be a 145.012.
Bit of tropical going on with the dial but does that lume look 50 years old? Bit of grime but that bezel looks like it would clean up OK. Flat link bracelet, 24 tooth crown looks nice.

A bit of a shame to offer it for sale with pushers looking like that. Come on experts wake wakey!

 

An auction house recently sent me pictures of caseback and movement of a (probably) 10.68 Longines with six notch back after I requested them. A nice touch, and wish more places would do it.

It doesn't cost them a lot, and would make auctions more clear cut, though of course then the margins would come into play...

 

You guys.

This is a definite buy.

I would not want to kick the nest by asking for movement shots. (because if they do it for you and its good, they send to everyone, and then you have to bid against more people). A damaged movement has to be really bad before its not savable and usually the watch looks worse than this if that is the case.

This auction house specializes in privately owned items and estates - do the home work gentlemen, weigh the evidence.

Its a fabulous owned watch, and in my pre-aga buying days I would pay minimum 6k without thinking - and then maybe some.

The pusher falling off means it has not been prepared, the gunk all around also.It also means its a restoration not a service.

The one thing making me wobbly is the appearance of the lume plots and the exact matching of the hands.

There is a 10% possibility this has been relumed and dirtied up for sale but even so the parts alone here are worth my bid.

And that is all without seeing the movement, and I can now fix just about anything unless its gone Antikythera on me.

I am not a buyer so I can safely say this is a fabulous watch - FOR ME. You can say its not for you, but you will not damp my (crazy?) enthusiasm for this sort of watch.

 

Spacefruit seal of approval has been delivered ... who will go for it ?

 

Remember just because I like it does not make it valuable - I have specific tastes, I like a watch to be as original as possible, and I do not shy away from evidence of work if done in a watch's normal life in single ownership. I do not mind deterioration, either.

I like seeing history.

Others do not. Others want as close to NOS as they can get. I do not like this as it often means parts are changed - and the watch looses some (hard to articulate) appeal.

Please buy only what YOU like. I am often called crazy with my choices, but I do not care. I am the one who looks at my collection, and as long as they give me joy, they stay.


In an auction, you need two crazy me's bidding. I am out, so maybe it will go cheap.

 

I was just going to post the exact same.

This is exactly the type of watch I like to buy. Not prepped for sale, a terrible crystal hiding a good dial and layers of gunk and crap acting like a seal which suggests this watch hasn’t been tampered with in recent years (and it’s in recent years that values have shot up and people have started tampering with these watches in an effort to deceive).

Looks great to me.

Unfortunately I’m not yet back in buying mode either.

 

ooh...maybe I'm tempted....

 

"Caseback has not been removed due to being previously over tightened. Multiple watch technicians and collectors have tried this and have not been successful"

This happened to me with a jar of gherkins. I wonder if they've tried wrapping a rubber band around it.

 

Looks like a single step case back to me. Hippocampus in good shape too.

 

If anyone goes a-bidding on this, do remember that McTear's charges an eye-watering 32.40% inc.VAT/sales tax on top of the hammer price, on The Saleroom...

 

I do think this is a bit of a worry. Cross threaded? Super glued? If a watch technician with a proper tool can't get in whats going on.

 

Has anyone tried with a @Pahawi case back tool, though

 

£5,000! I tried to bid online but the auctioneer was really fast and my bid was too late. 30 minutes waiting around and the bidding lasted about 7 seconds!

 

Bargain

 

Auction fever? £6300 inc fees. Say 500 for a service, hunt down the correct second hand and a minute hand with some lume £500? Add in the risk of movement unseen. I would prefer this. Probably negotiate to a similar price.

https://www.chrono24.co.uk/omega/sp...l-pre-moon--cal-312--brac-1039--id8257922.htm

edit, not that. Just saw how horrible the dial and hands are. Perhaps it is a bargain!