Universal Geneve Watches On Ebay

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Oku Oku
for posterity:


Personally, I think that the dial is partly restored (tachy scale).


Really?


 
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PT Barnum attribution - "There is a sucker born every minute" .... Think I'll start collecting Bulova. 😲
 
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PT Barnum attribution - "There is a sucker born every minute" .... Think I'll start collecting Bulova. 😲

I was thinking of moving on to Timex watches ...
 
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I was thinking of moving on to Timex watches ...
Just bought this Todd Snyder limited edition Timex a few weeks ago. Truly an iconic company.
 
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This is sillly and pretty much why I'm standing down from UG for a while. This is a 4-6k watch max.

@Larry S maybe this is worth a gamble then with a day and a half left...though seller has not been around on eBay since last year, so tread carefully...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/122674972994
 
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@GuiltyBoomerang subdials hands are wrong, faded dial, 14k, very small ... but the price is attractive
Hands as I am discovering are rare and expensive. The hour hand and hour sub are the only correct hands here. I'm still unsure if this style chrono hand is correct or incorrect. I have a Tri with it, there are warches in Sala with it and have now a replacement from a forum member.
 
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Hands as I am discovering are rare and expensive. The hour hand and hour sub are the only correct hands here. I'm still unsure if this style chrono hand is correct or incorrect. I have a Tri with it, there are warches in Sala with it and have now a replacement from a forum member.

May those hour and minute hands be not correct, but very similar to correct one that we usually see on those watches ? (Feuille hands ?)
 
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The longer I study this and Sala the weirder it gets. What is going on with the seconds sub? Ugh
 
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Original dial and small second hand, the rest of the hands has been replaced. Here is my old watch to compare,

 
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Original dial and small second hand, the rest of the hands has been replaced. Here is my old watch to compare,

What reference was your watch? At any rate not a project I'd pursue.
 
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What reference was your watch? At any rate not a project I'd pursue.

Same as the watch in question, 52217.
 
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Thank you for the knowledge @Dre @Larry S and @Florent, this looks to be one to avoid, considering the 0 feedback may be due to scamming:

For those wondering what happens to the eBay account after the seller has been reported and found by eBay to be fradulent. This is what happens.

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On a lighter note, starting bid price seems ok for this gold capped Polerouter (I know the seller has listed it as 18k, though I have no idea how to determine that :/ )

http://www.ebay.com/itm/112549716084
 
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Looks very much like that, a redial as you say. Printing appears to be thick and lume plots aren't aligned.
And a welcome to the forums, fellow Australian 😀
As for hunting, this one is a redial and the U is crooked - a shame, given the tropical dial :/

Well, I might be able to live with it, if it goes cheap... which it won't.. And thanks, I've been on here a while, I just don't post much.
 
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I think the watchword for Polerouter Subs is "Avoid". They all seem to be franken. This I have learned here on OF.