Unusual Connie "Wistwatch"....Thoughts?

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DanT

·Nov 18, 2021

Up for auction in the UK - never seen one of these before. Cross hatching on the dial? Some of our resident Connie/C Case experts might be familiar with this, but looks odd to me. Dial script also looks suspect but pics not great unfortunately.

Described as
"CONSTELLATION AUTOMATIC WISTWATCH. STAMPED 18K"


https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/...aign=auction-alert&utm_content=lot-image-link

 

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Dan321

·Nov 18, 2021

Looks like someone has been at it with a dremmel, doesn’t look neat enough to have been machined.
Wist watch lol - perhaps it a watch to wear while playing card games

 

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TexOmega

·Nov 18, 2021

Crummy redial and now a crummy case to match

 

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Noddyman

·Nov 18, 2021

Got to be a fake surely.

 

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Peemacgee

·Nov 18, 2021·Purrrr-veyor of luxury cat box loungers

I nearly posted this myself when I saw it. you need to see the rest of the pics too.
At best a locally cased watch.
At worst a fake case ( 18k stamp on outer back and not liking the verdigree inside the case back )

 

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dsio

·Nov 18, 2021·Ash @ ΩF

I kind of wonder if this could actually be a UK domestic case that’s a bit weird as I have seen this finish, of a similarly sort of amateurish quality on some genuine watches that are different cases but of a similar era

 

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MtV

·Nov 18, 2021

Why is the movement placed off-center in the case? Or is that the angle of the picture?

 

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UncleBuck

·Nov 18, 2021

MtV

Why is the movement placed off-center in the case? Or is that the angle of the picture?

Photo angle?

Case pattern looks like a Dremel "gone wild".
Wonder how he felt in the morning?

 

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Foo2rama

·Nov 18, 2021·Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...

I’ve seen watches “refinished” like that. It’s a stamping process

 

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Dug

·Nov 19, 2021

Foo2rama

I’ve seen watches “refinished” like that. It’s a stamping process

Limited watch expertise but with my engineers hat on I agree, the only way to produce the case pattern with that regularity is by stamping or casting....definitely stamped IMHO.

 

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lindo

·Nov 19, 2021

Quelle horreur - just plain awful.