yup....

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what do you make of the non branded dial?

 

It seems that 1930s calibre 255 3 handers have started to attract attention - attention I'd rather see go elsewhere. It's a particularly nice case on this one (the jury is out on the sterile dial) but, like the last one I commented on here, I get a sense of somebody trying to create hype rather than it being real. Let's see how long it remains unsold at €2.9k.

 

Unfortunately yes

 

From your perspective as a three hand veteran, what are the arguments for and against that dial? To me it sure looks like it belongs there but that is unscientific.

 

I can't prove that this watch didn't come out of the UG factory with that dial on it. We all know that UGs of this period have dials that can fade and it's possible for this to happen unevenly so I can conceive of somebody scrubbing the name off the dial to make it look more uniform (I can obviously conceive of that scrubbed text being something else like Longines/Mido/Alpina - you get the picture). Unfortunately the 255 isn't referenced in Ranfft so it would be interesting to know if it's a true in-house calibre or a re-purposed A Schild or Phenix (like, for example, the 3 hander Colonials) - I should probably direct a bit of research in that direction.

This is the 2nd cal 255 3-hander to seemingly make silly money in a relatively short time frame - they have a very distilled and lean aesthetic and of course it's possible that the market has just discovered them but I'm a cynical old fart and I have a feeling that something is being manipulated. If this had pitched up and sold for under €3-400 I'd be inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt but where the bidding appears to go bonkers and then it turns up on a ludicrous BiN I immediately don't trust any of it.

 

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Rare model. Undisclosed redial.
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i know, was looking at this, such a shame on the dial

 

Had to put my “Bruce Lee” Polerouter up on EBay . Trying to be a “one watch” person. Ends 3/14.

 

I dont trust this one !

 

Zero IMHO !

 

It perhaps looks like it? Beautiful watch and congrats either way @TheRealMe
I love it when the good watches pop back up here

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A grail ...

 

Since I haven’t heard a single peep around here about this Aero Compax, I can only assume that one of you snaffled this beauty recently

I was following closely on Ricardo but the auction moved well though my budget in the final stages. It hammered at CHF 15,306 which, despite this piece’s obvious rarity, seemed like a very strong price indeed to me.

 

Rare as hens teeth. My immediate reaction was redial, but it looks legit. Where has this been? Most of these led hard lives and look like hell now.

 

That aero had me drooling ...

 

One more site I need to make alerts for I guess...

 

I was the underbidder.
Very happy for this second place. I was doing a crazyness for my finances.
I saw two other dealers bidding for this, the highest bid being at around 6000$ (more or less).
My budget was 10k, i was so frustrated in the end that I offered 15K! And I didn't win.
My closest collector friends said: you were lucky.

But anyway a rare rare piece, in exceptional conditions.

 

What's the earliest Tri serial we have seen? Common understanding is that Tri was released in 44 for the 50th anniv of UG, but this Tri would pre date that......

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There's a few sub 1,000,000 serial in Sala, including a 946,XXX so I guess not unknown