Vintage Omega casing 18 ct gold

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Unfortunately, the workings of my vintage 18 ct gold Omega watch fell out leaving one the casing. Can anyone advise me the best way to deal with this. I would be interested in selling it to some one who requires a casing!
 
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Really only good for the scrap value of the gold.
 
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Thanks - that's what I thought! Just thought someone might like it as it is still in good condition.
 
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Thanks - that's what I thought! Just thought someone might like it as it is still in good condition.
There are 2 problems with that, firstly it was likely some hideously unfashionable 70s/80s watch that most on here would ignore, integrated bracelet watches are not popular, secondly you have no selling privileges on here so aren't entitled to post items for sale.

Just scrap it, it should fetch a good few hundred at present.
 
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Thank you for your reply - if the watch still had its face, it would be worth several 1000's dollars! It is from the 1960's and not hideous at all. However, I am now going to sell it for it's gold value.
 
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Thank you for your reply - if the watch still had its face, it would be worth several 1000's dollars! It is from the 1960's and not hideous at all. However, I am now going to sell it for it's gold value.
Not really, it just isn't a collectible piece, either mechanically or aesthetically. Even if it was working it wouldn't be worth much more than its scrap value.
 
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Thank you for your reply - if the watch still had its face, it would be worth several 1000's dollars! It is from the 1960's and not hideous at all. However, I am now going to sell it for it's gold value.
Says you...
 
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In the forum members deliver hard truths and I feel like you're likely offended right now, but the hard truth is a lot more popular models are right now selling below scrap value, so there's almost 0 chance for you to sell it

Your 2 options seems to me:
1) Scrap it
2) Measure proper dimensions and start a hunt for a steel casebacked watch that will fit inside - it could take a year even if you look everywhere online, so a pretty challenging quest
 
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Thank you for your reply - if the watch still had its face, it would be worth several 1000's dollars! It is from the 1960's and not hideous at all.

Can you post a photo of the original watch? I would like to see it.
 
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Please do post a pic of the original watch, I wasn't trying to offend with my earlier post, merely tell it like it is. In my defence, I didn't say the original watch was hideous (after all I haven't seen it), I used that word as an adjective to suggest how unfashionable a tv dial integrated watch is at present, they are not in vogue right now.

The fact remains your posts look rather like veiled sales posts so that partly explains why I wasn't as touchy feely welcoming as I can be on a good day, we don't tolerate sales from noobs 😀