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Maybe a retirement gift for an employee at some point?

: So last week a 2nd execution 2446 came up for bid on eBay here in
: the US.

: I had a go at trying to communicate with the seller - someone with
: zero feedback, I got radio silence for 3days - finally I got
: some communication from the seller - he found the watch in a
: house he had been hired to demo - he had never used eBay before
: and knew very little about the watch.

: My gut told me to stay away from the situation - but I had one
: reason to want to take on the project, I happened to have an NOS
: Bezel and the dial looked ok. I also figured if you are gonna be
: a scammer - you would probably show a mint watch to get top lo
: dollar - not a busted up watch that some one had left behind in
: a house that was going to be destroyed. And of course if it
: turned out to be too much for me to handle in terms of work - I
: could just send to off to Abel.

: Eventually I figured to go for it and bid for the watch and won.

: Well I received it on Friday and found two big issues, one I was
: able to overcome - the other not so much.
: 1) when taking out the movement - one of the screw that holds the
: movement in was busted in a way that it could not be unscrewed-
: eventually I figured out a way to deal with that.
: 2) the bottom lugs had been sawed - yes that's right sawed on the
: inside - I presume to make them wider, but frankly I have no
: idea why someone would do that.

: Anyway, here is what it looked like when I got it:
:
:

: The dial was in great shape - it was missing a lume dot at 7.
: The case was a disaster as mentioned before
: The crystal was mangled - badly
: The hands were lumeless - and had some cosmetic damage.
: But she was purring like a kitten and keeping time perfectly.

: So here are pictures I took during the process - (I'm no Paul Gavin
: with a camera so bear with me)
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: After the case refinishing:
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: After the re luming:
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: All put together:
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: I know there are some who poo poo restorations but I think this one
: will be one of my favorite wearing watches - just think - had
: some guy not figured - hey I could probably sell this on eBay,
: it would have ended up I a pile of debris and rubble.

: I still have yet to figure out what the CER on the dial stands for
: - the seller claims that someone from Tag told him it was a tire
: company. I have yet to confirm this.

: Case # 53xxx

: anyway - I thought I would share.

: Cheers,
: Lanny