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··MWR Tech Support Dept1928 today….
What vintage Longines is on your wrist today?
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philby
·This afternoon:
Lake Geneva with Ultra-Chron.
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·VERY cool 👍 and dibs!
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··MWR Tech Support DeptThis is simply a great looking watch. The patina on the case and dial has come out to look like a rare vintage.
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·Thank you @Seiji, to me it is, frankly it is one of the most beautiful watches I own or have held. And the irony is, I narrowly missed it at auction many years ago- it came from a public pawn facility and was sold in the south of France for what would today be considered a bargain. I later found it on Instagram, and am thankful I now have it.
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·You’ve cornered the market on those 😀
I very much liked your gold COSD when it first came on the market and hoped it would fly under the radar, but it certainly didn’t.
I think in many ways it did fly far under the radar. Did anyone know the importance of William Lawson? Probably to this day, Lawson is only going to be remembered in a couple of books on the WLA. I certainly didn't know who he was and didn't know how rare a gold COSD is.
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·I have only seen 2 gold cased 13322 COSD's and if I remember the first was approximately half the price of yours Seiji, but was quite a few years ago. So for sure they are rarely seen. I was also tentatively hoping to buy it as I actually prefer them to the tuna can as a watch to wear, but it got way too rich for me.
I don't think that everyone puts the same level of value of the historical inscription on the watch as you. I suspect that most bidders on your lovely watch were going to dump the gold case and rehouse in a tuna can, and that is the main reason for the fairly high price, so in the most obvious ways I don't think it flew under the radar at all.
I don't think that everyone puts the same level of value of the historical inscription on the watch as you. I suspect that most bidders on your lovely watch were going to dump the gold case and rehouse in a tuna can, and that is the main reason for the fairly high price, so in the most obvious ways I don't think it flew under the radar at all.
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·I suspect that most bidders on your lovely watch were going to dump the gold case and rehouse in a tuna can, and that is the main reason for the fairly high price, so in the most obvious ways I don't think it flew under the radar at all.
I definitely think I saved the watch from just becoming yet another Tuna transplant. I think watches that had a role in history are more interesting than a watch that is simply a speculative investment.
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··MWR Tech Support DeptI have only seen 2 gold cased 13322 COSD's and if I remember the first was approximately half the price of yours Seiji, but was quite a few years ago. I suspect that most bidders on your lovely watch were going to dump the gold case and rehouse in a tuna can, and that is the main reason for the fairly high price, so in the most obvious ways I don't think it flew under the radar at all.
Also @Seiji’s watch was first sold at auction a couple years before he bought it— and he luckily nabbed it late for a significantly lower price.
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·Also @Seiji’s watch was first sold at auction a couple years before he bought it— and he luckily nabbed it late for a significantly lower price.
I should confess, I was also buying the watch initially for the dial. Only after doing a hour or two of googling WAEC did I understand what the watch was really representing. At that point, I revised my snip to three times my initial snip. The true value to me is what the Lawson and all of the other WAEC, WLA /WTC contributed from the home front. Weeks later I found the newspaper references to invitations from Queen Elizabeth for his OBE. Well, if there is ever a need, Syrte you will receive a PM from me. I don't want to sell to someone that is going to transplant the watch and flip it. If Jennifer was around, I would have asked Longines to put into LEA the details of Lawson so the watch would be unsellable without the gold case.
By the way, I thought the auction finished very low. I am looking back at the total price, it wasn't much more than $5,400 AUD/$3,500 USD. I was prepared to spend much more because the radium tuna was so much more.
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·Yes, I suppose it is fairly reasonable with hindsight, although then there would be the import fees on top.
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··MWR Tech Support DeptWell, if there is ever a need, Syrte you will receive a PM from me. I don't want to sell to someone that is going to transplant the watch and flip it. .
Thank you @Seiji, indeed what I liked about it was the gold case -so definitely no transplant for me.
And I really like its history which you uncovered with your usual sense of focus. 😉
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·Needs no introduction
The dial manufacturing process is unlike anything else I have seen at this scale.
The dial manufacturing process is unlike anything else I have seen at this scale.
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·1960 Conquest 9020 today:
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