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dougal74

·Jul 9, 2024

Would anyone happen to know if the running seconds hand should have lume on it? The other sub-registers don't (and obviously it is only residual under black light) and I was wondering if this was how they came originally? Many thanks, Adam

 

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Archer

·Jul 9, 2024·Omega Qualified Watchmaker

dougal74

Would anyone happen to know if the running seconds hand should have lume on it?

No, it should not have lume.

 

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hansaboy

·Jul 11, 2024

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Another one having had a tough life.. Interesting restomod..

This Bad Boy went down for 4255 £ / 5055 $ / 5480 USD inc the premium!

 

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soda-fabbrica

·Jul 11, 2024

hansaboy

This Bad Boy went down for 4255 £ / 5055 $ / 5480 USD inc the premium!

Is that a good price for the seller or buyer? I'm still trying to establish a gauge for this kinda thing..

 

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dougal74

·Jul 11, 2024

soda-fabbrica

Is that a good price for the seller or buyer? I'm still trying to establish a gauge for this kinda thing..

I think it depends upon whether the buyer knows what they are getting into in terms of the movement and condition (apart from the obvious). I would be worried about how much other frankensteining has been conducted on it in addition to the pusher - I'd rather have something that hasn't really been touched rather than been repaired badly, with the wrong parts.

 

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soda-fabbrica

·Jul 17, 2024

This Ed White geezer is pretty hard on his watches.. another one with a story to tell, if only it could talk..

Edited: Jul 17, 2024

 

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dougal74

·Jul 17, 2024

soda-fabbrica

This Ed White geezer is pretty hard on his watches.. another one with a story to tell, if only it could talk..

First valuable watch I've seen from Fellows that they've described as "spares or repair".

 

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hansaboy

·Jul 26, 2024

soda-fabbrica

This Ed White geezer is pretty hard on his watches.. another one with a story to tell, if only it could talk..

It was sold for 4470 € / 4850 $ including the premium!
I do hope that the buyer did a serious research, this one has LOTS of issues!

Edited: Jul 26, 2024

 

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Pastorbottle

·Jul 26, 2024

soda-fabbrica

This Ed White geezer is pretty hard on his watches.. another one with a story to tell, if only it could talk..

It would say ouch!

 

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dougal74

·Jul 26, 2024

hansaboy

It was sold for 4470 € / 4850 $ including the premium!
I do hope that the buyer did a serious research, this one has LOTS of issues!

£3770 for a watch that is sold as seen and spares or repairs is crazy unless you have fully inspected it with the caseback off. That said a Seamaster Chrono with an 861 sold for £1,495 in the same auction with a heavily pitted gold capped case and the auction house admitted they couldn’t remove the case back. So the Ed White wasn’t alone in the madness! Several lots felt like they had come from a watchmaker who had given up on various projects and was passing them on to the next buyer.

 

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drose224

·Jul 26, 2024

Lotsa money for lotsa work.

 

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Pastorbottle

·Jul 26, 2024

Well if you can get good money for them as they are....why would you bother fixing them unlessit was more profitable to go to the trouble!

 

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sheepdoll

·Jul 26, 2024

I still have envy of the person who beat me out of the rusted 861, doubling my bid.

 

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drose224

·Jul 26, 2024

Another one will come along

 

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soda-fabbrica

·Jul 26, 2024

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I still have envy of the person who beat me out of the rusted 861, doubling my bid.

Double figures? Triple figures? Or single digits?

 

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sheepdoll

·Jul 26, 2024

I bid 500 they did like 1000. Insane. I posted my regrets here a few weeks back.

The watch was already somewhat parted out. Dial (trashed) midcase, and back. Back also wento for over 1100. The total to win all the auctions would have been like 3050 and that still leave bezel hands and crystal. Was for a -68.

Would be nice to have cash to burn like that.

Too bad Omega got caught with the hands in the cookie jar. Of course they could be buying up all the spares themselves to reduce frankens or more 'Prototypes.' Still they return the parts, which sometimes show up online. There is a set of modern swapped parts going off this weekend in Hawaii.

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No bids so far. These usually spike at the end.

Edited: Jul 26, 2024

 

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soda-fabbrica

·Aug 10, 2024

Another one up for a second chance...