Gentlemen,

Today there where two auctions in Germany, small ones with only a few watches in total, but the prices on some where for me surprising...

A really nice and genuine unpolished Seamaster 105.004 sold for 5.200€ and on an other auction a non working quite beaten up gold plated Breitling 806 sold for 4.400€ (nice dial though). I was bidding on these but didn’t have the balls to go “all the way”.

And a 1980 Speedmaster Apollo XI Anniversary yellow gold sold for 41.000€!

Any ideas on reason for the, in my opinion, high prices? Excitement for finding true and genuinely honest items or a heated up market?

 

I was one of the under-bidders on Lot 761, the Seamaster, and I must say was very surprised by the final result. Adding the buying and internet bidding commission to the hammer price will take it over €6.7K...which I find too much. I couldn't get any extra pictures so was assuming a 1035 and not the earlier 7912 or 7077 bracelet. I think the estimate of €350 perhaps brought a few extra bidders to the party.

I also missed out on a nice 2471 Cosmic in another auction coming out of DE today, it had the wrong hands but still went for €3.6K

 

What was also interesting to see was that there where no floor bids on the Seamaster, only internet bids.

 

I agree with high Prices and thanks for sharing

 

I had ordered extra photos which unveiled the following:

it was a 1035 bracelet from 2/67 with number 6 endlinks - but: the lugs of this SM are only 18 mm, so most probably the 19 mm endlinks were filed down to fit the SM case - hence the endlinks 6 are pretty much worthless...

Maybe some internet bidders were carried away by the presence of a Speedy bracelet and endlinks #6 and did not consider the different lug size

 

Good catch Inspector L !

 

Yes that sounds likely. How was the bezel? In the auction picture it looked to have possible bubbling or some kind of damage/marks between the 5 and 6.

 

I was also watching the seamaster . Some more photos

 

Sigh. These seamaster chronos are really going up.