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  1. filmir Oct 14, 2019

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    If we start saying that Paul Router had this same watch the prices will certainly go up. It worked with Paul Newman...
     
  2. CafeRacer Oct 16, 2019

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    its a common Japanese mis-translation that turns up online.
    Also a useful search term if you're looking for them in Japan ;)
     
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  3. Xeer Oct 20, 2019

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    Givin' away all the good tips! One of my saved searches on Yahoo Auctions ;)
     
  4. rustynuts Oct 25, 2019

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  5. Severin Oct 26, 2019

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  6. Larry S Color Commentator for the Hyperbole. Oct 26, 2019

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    Damn that’s pretty!
     
  7. loniscup Oct 27, 2019

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    What a dial!!!
     
  8. CafeRacer Oct 27, 2019

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    They come in 2 variations: 1) with both gold markers/hands/logo (pictured) and (2) with steel markers/hands/logo
    Most (if not all) 20355-x references had these options it seems.
    The one you've linked too seems to have the gold option dial from a 20355/5.
     
  9. gop76 Oct 27, 2019

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    Here is mine:

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  10. jumpingsecond Oct 27, 2019

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    Here's the other all steel version. And another all gold variant I saw somewhere once (which is a different ref # I think) These are pretty cool jets!
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  11. Dan S Oct 27, 2019

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  12. Oku Oct 27, 2019

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    Sure. No sharp pic of the watch, but good pics of the catalogues?
    private listing - bidders' identities protected
    You need to be very very lucky.
    But even on the blurry pics it seems to be a redial:
    - Font on hour counter is very thick.
    - The grey printing is in hour counter subdial, but not on other subdials
    - Colors look like white and grey and not different silver colors.
    Mine (35mm not 37mm like in the listing) for comparison:
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  13. bgrisso Oct 27, 2019

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    I've had some back and forth with the seller without much luck :rolleyes:
     
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  14. Oku Oct 27, 2019

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    He is obviously knowledgeable. His description:
    "Vintage Universal Geneve Tri-Compax Moonphase Chronograph Watch....in Non-Working Order. 18K Yellow Gold Case. Dates to the 1940's. 17 Jewels. 2 Push-Pieces (rectanglar). Smiling Moon. Gold Dauphine Hands. Resister is Numbered in Five Minute Intervals with the Numbers 3, 6, 9 (not long hash marks, like later models). Date Dial at 12 o'clock with Window Showing Lunar Phases. Window at 10 & 12 o'clock Respectivaly Showing Weekday & Month.
    The Crystal & Face are in Very Nice Condition. No Box, No Original Paper's. This was a Gift...In Non-Working Condition, which Needs Restoring. Sorry for the Poor Quality Phots's do to Glare.
    NO RETURNS"

    By the way "Smiling Moon." If the moon is smiling, it's not original...
     
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  15. Dan S Oct 27, 2019

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    I contacted him also, suggesting that better photos could be well worth his while. His response was "Sorry....this is the best that I can do."
     
  16. vujen Oct 27, 2019

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    this seller seems sooooooo elusive...
     
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  17. Florent Oct 27, 2019

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    Wrong hands, smiling moon, very very thick subdial font, grey circle only for the one subdial, lying seller... :cautious:
    It’s like playing the lottery...
    I won’t bid without quality picture. Looks like a redial. ::shy::
     
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  18. Woops Oct 28, 2019

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    The minute subdial especially appears to have a very rounded redialled edge, visible despite the comedy camerawork.
     
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  19. bgrisso Oct 28, 2019

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    Voila
     
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  20. MarktheTime Oct 28, 2019

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    ::puke::