very rare base 1000 bezel on the bay.......

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Sexy, how many Base 1000s do you have? I've posted mine. Let's see what you've got!
 
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yes, two different versions exist. I bought my first around 5 years ago at 120 EUR and another one around 2 years ago at already 1.000 EUR. Interesting to see what a heavy worn one can fetch nowady. Unfortunately I sold my first one together with a later 2998 (who stupid can one be?!). Fortunately I still have 4 of them left.
 
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easy.....these speedmasters, who should have tachymetre` base 1000 bezels, rising extremely fast in value. therefore the parts, that make them complete, rise even faster...... it is called capitalism...... kind regards. achim
 
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Supply and demand, capitalism, whatever you want to call it? At the end of the day this is really really
obscene (to me).
 
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Imagine what a good one would go for now...
 
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and that is only the start for a catch up rally of straight lug speedmasters.....rolex daytonas have peaked. omega has not. kind regards. achim
 
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Imagine what a good one would go for now...
Great Bezel. Lousy Dial 🙁
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9,6 K 😲 wow!!! Great price for this example....😟
 
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Winner's bidding activity looks a little 'strange'.

I was trying to make sense of the last few days but then saw they were actually active right from the early stages.
Looks like one of those bidders that can't let anyone get ahead for too long and will keep chipping away when a new bidder overtakes them.

Then goes cold for a couple of days before coming back in with the killer blow (at least 2.5x their previous bid) a couple of hours before the end.
Not quite a battle of the nuclear snipers; but the same resulting effect.

I think there's a chance we'll see this one relisted.
 
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I bow to the man with the connections, and his finger on the pulse 😉
 
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When you have a 2998-1 or 2998-2 or a lat3e 2915-3 with all parts complete but missing the correct bezel, the counterworth you get here is probably worth to pay this price (nowadays) in order to finalize the watch.

To me some voices here in the forum appear somehow strange when being so hypercritic with any fine example of those watches showing up as soon as one part is incorrect and simultaneously being hypercritic with other collectors who (have to) spend a lot of money to smooth away exactly such imperfectness of their baby.
 
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This is a clear example of a very honest 2915-3 , and not assembled from different sources.

The correct movement number range is so narrow for a 2915-3 (1664xxxx) that it would extremely difficult to assemble one.
 
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The correct movement number range is so narrow for a 2915-3 (1664xxxx) that it would extremely difficult to assemble one.
IMHO you are mistaking assembled with franken. Assembled could be correct (including serial), with all correct parts but from different sources ( Dial, hands, bezel etc., Franken is all wrong including serial from a Seamaster for example. This 2915-3 looks unmolested from factory, all parts looks the same aging.