Hi all, I'm negotiating on this gold sparkly. I can see the lugs have been lightly polished, but generally they seem ok? views? ta daniel
Bezel might have been redone, but it looks like a decent job. Case is a little polished but ok. You can probably find a decent one for half of the buy it now price, but I actually haven't seen a real nice one come up recently...probably because Mike has most of them in his collection. I would love to own the 751 version with the gold dial.
That's an omega_addict watch that has had the case refinished - a non-starter for me. And for this model, I would recommend going for the stainless steel version since the gold plating on these is quite thin.
In theory I've got an SS one (it has been with steve for almost 6 months ) and wanted to add a gold one to the collection. I know Tim sometimes refinishes, but I thought this one looked like a reasonable job. But if you guys can pick it so quickly, I'll probably pass.
By "refinish", do you mean merely the polishing on the lugs or did he somehow recapture the brushing on the bezel?
Such a shame that so many of his watches are close to, but not quite, original. Makes you wonder how bad they really were before he got his hands on them.
That's Tim's business model - buy $100-300 omegas, refinish them extensively then sell for $600-1200. Not my cup of tea his watches but I'm not the customer his business model caters to.
Bingo - most buyers are not collectors (yet). They want "oooo, shiny!" and at least Tim is one of the better sellers for originality as far as parts matching up to case references. He does occasionally have a piece or two that interests one of us though. The problem is that many of us like our drawer watches, or what the car community calls a barn find. Mike and Erich lead the pack by far, but Steve, Kyle, Evan, me, and a few others have a handful of these watches that sat in their box for decades and end up on eBay or elsewhere after the original owner passes away and their relatives sell them due to a lack of interest.