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COYI
·I have located the receipt from Tiffany for this watch which I bought in 1973 for $150 plus tax. I've also found what appears to be the original
T&Co box. Here are the photos...
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I'm confused now . Did you buy the watch or was it your father's?
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Augustusone
·I bought the watch new from Tiffany and gave it to my father after I bought my first Rolex (about 1980). He wore it for few years and I never saw it again until we cleared out his estate. Dad was hard on watches, so I wasn't surprised to find it in this condition.
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Shabbaz
·Ah. I understand. The box with papers. Very nice!
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CajunTiger
·Tiffany looks odd...but without photos that are in focus its not possible to tell anything.
If you have a receipt from Tiffany it would be worth its weight in gold...so don't do anything to the watch until you know what you have.
If you have a receipt from Tiffany it would be worth its weight in gold...so don't do anything to the watch until you know what you have.
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Ed Black
·I have located the receipt from Tiffany for this watch which I bought in 1973 for $150 plus tax. I've also found what appears to be the original
T&Co box. Here are the photos...
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Augustusone
·Ah. I understand. The box with papers. Very nice!
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Augustusone
·Tiffany looks odd...but without photos that are in focus its not possible to tell anything.
If you have a receipt from Tiffany it would be worth its weight in gold...so don't do anything to the watch until you know what you have.
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Davidt
·What does the receipt actually say? I can't make out a serial or reference number. Just $150 and an address.
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Augustusone
·Remember this is a receipt from almost 50 years ago, nothing was computerized, so it was hand written. If you look you will see " S Omega" in the center. Store shorthand for Stainless Omega. There are four handwritten lines towards the bottom the bottom two are my AMEX card number. I the other two may contain the serial number. I won't know for sure until I get it opened. Other numbers are probably the Tiffany department and salesperson numbers.
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Davidt
·Which is the number you think may be the serial (I'm not calling you out here, I can't make out much from the picture on my phone and it'd be cool if this receipt was proven to match the watch)?
I'd expect a watch of this age to have a serial around 31,xxx xxx, plus or minus a couple of million, but the key thing is, it will be eight digits.
I'd expect a watch of this age to have a serial around 31,xxx xxx, plus or minus a couple of million, but the key thing is, it will be eight digits.
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w154
·Well at least the price is in the right ballpark. A Swiss price list from circa 1970 puts the SM300 on bracelet at 380 CHF which converted at the time to approx. 125 USD. Add on import duties and perhaps a touch of inflation and the price looks good.
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·Which is the number you think may be the serial (I'm not calling you out here, I can't make out much from the picture on my phone and it'd be cool if this receipt was proven to match the watch)?
I'd expect a watch of this age to have a serial around 31,xxx xxx, plus or minus a couple of million, but the key thing is, it will be eight digits.
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Davidt
·Keep us informed - hopefully it will all tie together.
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JwRosenthal
·Would it have been standard practice for Tiffany to chuck the factory box and use their own? The reason I ask is that I met an antique jewelry dealer back in the 90’s in San Francisco. He had an incredible selection of used watches in boxes (Rolex, Tudor, Omega, etc). I asked if they all came with the boxes and he said no, he got them from a local high end jeweler that was closing up shop and known to put their watches in their own branded boxes and stash the factory boxes in the stock room. He had crates of them and matched them to watches as he got them. I guess people back then weren’t box and papers crazy like we aren’t now
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Augustusone
·Would it have been standard practice for Tiffany to chuck the factory box and use their own? The reason I ask is that I met an antique jewelry dealer back in the 90’s in San Francisco. He had an incredible selection of used watches in boxes (Rolex, Tudor, Omega, etc). I asked if they all came with the boxes and he said no, he got them from a local high end jeweler that was closing up shop and known to put their watches in their own branded boxes and stash the factory boxes in the stock room. He had crates of them and matched them to watches as he got them. I guess people back then weren’t box and papers crazy like we aren’t now
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Augustusone
·Or it sat in store inventory for quite a while.
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Dan S
·Thinking about this, I have never seen any used watches in inventory at Tiffany. They do have older estate pieces of jewelry, usually very high end stuff and usually their own work.
Right, my comment was just reflecting the purchase date of 1973, which was quite a while after the last 165.024 left the Omega factory (at least according to conventional wisdom). So Tiffany probably had it in their inventory for at least a couple of years before it sold. Not terribly unusual.
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Augustusone
·Definitely!
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