This one has to take the cake:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USED-VINT...855019?hash=item2cb77b09eb:g:nLsAAOSw-0xYVrlmPurchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network

I am at a computer where I can't post pictures at the moment, so have a look at the advert and tell me...

How many correct parts do you see? By far the most heavily abused, worst put-together I have ever seen

 

Incidentally, this has been listed too:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OMEGA-Con...955740?hash=item43fb1042dc:g:yGoAAOSwOtdYVZB0Purchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network

Isn't that a fake case?

 

Looks like a prototype to me ...

 

Must have belonged to somebody's uncle!?
A very naughty uncle it seems!

 

Yeah, well called! It's

 

School me. I see it is redialed and the case looks polished - but what makes you think it's fake? The inside caseback engraving?

 

It might just have been my imagination, but the angle of the lugs (could just be the perspective...) and the lack of facets made me consider it could have been a fake. They aren't usually that polished, however. The wrong replacement parts in the movement is another reason to stay clear, no matter if it really is a fake or not.

EDIT: on consideration, I don't think it has a fake case. It's just crap.

 

I missed that bridge...

 

@ConElPueblo - nobody will ever see a worse franken / redial than this:

https://omegaforums.net/threads/post-your-1st-vintage-omega.4040/#post-46633

Overpolished, cobbled together dirty and worn movement, case for a no date with a date caliber and piss-poor redial, and a broken BoR bracelet as the kicker. Everything was wrong with that watch.

 

From Desmond's blog, I understood that not all the variations of the dog-lug cases, have the same facetting underneath.
I was actually more looking at the lugs and how they are (too?) squarly attached to the case. Let's say: 'cut off too early' and therefore protruding too much.
Minefield.....
But whatever: ugly.



Edit: found it

 

Well, not sure I agree...

I think what makes this particular specimen really "speshul" is the caseback. It's the wrong sort of Constellation caseback, with the wrong sort of medallion - AND it has the ref. no. from a Seamaster! That has to be worth something

The movement is completely wrong for the watch as well!

 

Another thing I had looked at, too. In this case (!), it may have been polished too much to discern.

 

This Constellation boggles my mind: http://www.compraventarelojes.com/7424X.HTM