Universal Geneve Watches On Ebay

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Oooo, a Polarouter! 馃グ These are getting rare. Looks like on this one the crown and all three hands have been replaced. The dial looks original, though why is the vertical cross hair so short at the bottom? Also, some of the missing lume plots look possibly tampered with, maybe? As if replacement lume has fallen off? The case is rather rough, but nicely unpolished and acceptable in my opinion. The starting bid of $995 has already been accepted. Well, we are not in 2015 anymore, are we?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3536311349...rentrq:7f7d655017b0a7b8bc8741eefff643b2|iid:1
 
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Oooo, a Polarouter! 馃グ These are getting rare. Looks like on this one the crown and all three hands have been replaced. The dial looks original, though why is the vertical cross hair so short at the bottom? Also, some of the missing lume plots look possibly tampered with, maybe? As if replacement lume has fallen off? The case is rather rough, but nicely unpolished and acceptable in my opinion. The starting bid of $995 has already been accepted. Well, we are not in 2015 anymore, are we?

I agree with all of the above. Quite a bit of the printing has been lost in the lower section of the dial, which I think explains the missing section of cross hair. I think we'd be able to see a lot more of the 'Swiss' text at the very bottom but I think that's been lost too. The lume looks original but very tired to me rather than tampered with but it's very hard to tell. I suspect there's been a problem with moisture, which may also explain the unfortunate green tinge to the dial.
 
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Anyone a clue what Wolf means?
 
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This ^^ movement is looking for a ref 41302 with 1.118m case 馃榾

Not on ebay but on Insta (privateeyes_co) but already on hold (not suprisingly). Extremely rare cabriolet.
Screenshot btw so don't bother to click ;-)

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Not ebay but the French version of Gumtree: https://www.leboncoin.fr/montres_bijoux/2035751775.htm?ac=98969919
Interesting pin pusher. Movement is matching. Asking: EUR 2.700. Description:
'Je vends cette magnifique montre m茅canique chronographe de collection de la marque Universal Gen猫ve, il s'agit du mod猫le Compax avec la r茅f茅rence 224102. Boitier Stainless Steel, calibre 37mm, embarque le m茅canisme n掳287. Son num茅ro de s茅rie est compris entre 1063700 et 1063799. Elle a 茅t茅 produite en 1943. La montre est en bon 茅tat. Le m茅canisme fonctionne parfaitement. Il faudra pr茅voir un nettoyage du cadran et un polissage du verre.'

 
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Not ebay but the French version of Gumtree: https://www.leboncoin.fr/montres_bijoux/2035751775.htm?ac=98969919
Interesting pin pusher. Movement is matching. Asking: EUR 2.700. Description:
'Je vends cette magnifique montre m茅canique chronographe de collection de la marque Universal Gen猫ve, il s'agit du mod猫le Compax avec la r茅f茅rence 224102. Boitier Stainless Steel, calibre 37mm, embarque le m茅canisme n掳287. Son num茅ro de s茅rie est compris entre 1063700 et 1063799. Elle a 茅t茅 produite en 1943. La montre est en bon 茅tat. Le m茅canisme fonctionne parfaitement. Il faudra pr茅voir un nettoyage du cadran et un polissage du verre.'


same thing on eBay for $9800
 
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Or EBay fees in France are very high. Given the poor dial and wrong hands I鈥檇 say the 2700 is about market
 
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Or EBay fees in France are very high. Given the poor dial and wrong hands I鈥檇 say the 2700 is already over market
FIFY!
 
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Well perhaps but I don't see much of them (anyway) at lower prices.
 
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Lovely 2 tone dial unicompax but on closer inspection, looks like a redial. Movement looks great.

Would the brain trust concur?



https://www.ebay.com/itm/111958316128

i can't tell from that photo, but offhand I would say OK on the dial. What's jumping out to you as wrong?
 
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The S on Universal and the quality of printing on the minute subdials seem to jump out.
 
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Lovely 2 tone dial unicompax but on closer inspection, looks like a redial. Movement looks great.

Assume that the seller is open to offers since it has been for sale for months

Very close serials here:
https://www.etsy.com/nl/listing/491991098/zeer-vroege-universele-geneve-uni-compax
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/18989/lot/112/ (redial)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-Early...al-283-Ref-22265-1942-Millitary-/254517223126
 
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