Hi All

Few members might of seen this on ebay last week

less than a year old 3861 with some real issues someone had gouged the dial??? changed the hands and crystal missing the bezel


put a bid in and got it for £2k

came with a omega strap and deployment buckle a packet of hands which are tritium speedmaster

Got the modelers paint out to paint the gouge since the dial is trashed changed the chrono hand to one in the packed (which has been stripped of paint)

Crazy but keeping time

Going to the AD in the next few days to get it repaired and brought back to original

 

There is just so much going on here lol

 

Is that a baked ‘tropical’ dial? It makes zero sense…but, congrats

 

The seller told me who he got it off wanted to make it look vintage

 

I am speechless!

 

Neo-vintage, reinvented.

@bags1971: once back in proper shape, probably still a bargain. Good luck!

 

Looks like the case was also polished. I'd be curious what they quote you for the replacement of the dial.

I imagine you're looking at another 1.5-2k to get this to original spec

 

its around £1200 for all the parts most expensive seems the dial around £500

 

Is this the one where he’s tried to age it by scouring a circle around the inside of the minute track to replicate a step?

 

Brave man buying that.

This watch looks like nothing but trouble.

 

As an owner of a cal 3861, it breaks my heart to see this. I am also speechless!

I just don't understand what could possibly justify taking shots of such a watch on the top of a Seiko cloth

 

I’m sure Omega will work magic to bring it back to life

 

Nice, how much is the labor? I'm looking to replace the dial on one of my Speedmaster's.

 

We live in a society.

 

Wow! Just amazingly bad! I hope the previous owner wasn’t member here.

 

Somebody certainly had too much money ... buying a brand new expensive watch and ruin it . The more stupid is that he can find real aged Moonwatch without any problem on the 2nd hand websites . Besides having too much money , i can't see any reason why people do something like that , but everybody does what they got to do i guess...

 

This was clearly done by a member of The Rolex forum as a hate crime! I can hear them all laughing right now as this poor Speedy is clinging to life…

 

Well, not my taste, but it was the previous owner’s watch to do with as they so choose.

 

I've seen this artificial aging done to Tudor BB58's and a Tudor P01. But both were professionaly aged/weathered.

 

As I began reading; I thought, "what's the big deal? Some people actually wear their watches and do so with abandon." I kept reading to find that it was all intentional to age the watch. Ick.

I get the vintage look and the related visual cues it brings, but c'mon! Do it the old-fashioned way; wear it for years. Let it age as it should and develop its own story.

Good luck with the resto. I'm curious what else you find and how many shekels it takes to restore the piece.