My compliments, Lanny!

I noticed you were the winner of the auction ;-) , so i was waiting for you to show the watch on OTD...

Definitely a great addiction to your great collection, these 2nd executions are as (or more) rare than the big registers. Not less is the plasure of bringing it back to life!

Here its brother 532xx saying welcome!

: 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
: 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