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marcn
·Put it on an accurate (jewelers) scale minus all the non gold parts. Google’s your friend. Make sure you specify gram, dwt, etc in your search. First result is just one of countless scrap dealers.
What is the scrap value of a 34mm 18k watch?
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hoipolloi
·I love old Omega gold alloys and have 3 rings made from them.
This one is 9k from Dennison case.
This one is 9k from Dennison case.
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.Let’s see the watch to make sure you have the whole value picture and not tunneling in on melt value.
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ConElPueblo
·Let’s see the watch to make sure you have the whole value picture and not tunneling in on melt value.
Exactly. It may be worth more to a collector than to a scrap gold dealer.
Not many 34mm vintage watches contain much gold. As a reference, 60s presentation watches from Certina (and other brands) contain less than 10gr of 18/14k gold in total... The caseback on my 18k Certina DS weighs three times that.
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Mark020
··not the sharpest pencil in the ΩF drawerQuestions like this always get a lot of answers about 9-14-18k gold vs the spot gold price.
Place I used in the past has their live price on their website. If places don’t have this: avoid them. And they should pay more than 90% of spot…
Place I used in the past has their live price on their website. If places don’t have this: avoid them. And they should pay more than 90% of spot…
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Mark020
··not the sharpest pencil in the ΩF drawerBased on the above I did some calcs. Last day this shop was open was 16 Dec (and now in lockdown so no gold purchasing possible):
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Dani Angelini
·depends realy on the watch, I had a lady,s dress watch that was around the 8 grams of 18ct gold and had a men's dress watch that was about 6 grams. the best way to know is remove the movement and the glass and weigh. or if you are not in the position to do that open de back and weigh the case back then you will see if they use a lot of gold or it is a thin layer. (like those cheap chronograph Swiss watches 18ct)
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Dani Angelini
·or download gold live so you know the price and take 10% off
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Mark020
··not the sharpest pencil in the ΩF drawerReally funny answers. If he was in the position to weigh it he would not ask these questions I think 😁
Anyway: I think - in general - the amount of gold is less than expected
Anyway: I think - in general - the amount of gold is less than expected
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Walrus
·I hit the gold mine in gold watches the last few months of the year. Most of them were vintage it helped me out I don’t really like gold watches so I traded them sold a few for “regular watches”. Sometimes they are made with “onion layers” or whatever the term jewelers used back then or now which allowed for less gold than a “solid case”. So there are a lot of factors that can make it difficult to give any one answer the biggest I ever found was a half ounce (standard ounce not Troy ounce) and that does not seem to be common.
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Walrus
·Sorry error post wouldn’t let me delete was suppose do be a dm
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