. . . so it's the large quantities of late night beverages, or the smaller bladders, that give some members of our community the edge!! I was up at 3:45 this morning, but there were no bargains to be found.

As an aside: Novices' use of BuyItNow continues to amaze me!!

Jeff

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: Jeff - this is the same watch that sold on eBay last week at $6,500

: Cos Cob is one of the 5 towns that makes up Greenwich, CT.

: I woke up in the middle of the night, and happened to check my ebay
: account on my phone, as is habit.

: Saw the watch, saw the location and figured, pull the trigger,
: inspect it in the metal and then decide.

: I met with the seller and his mother the next day at the Riverside
: starbucks. The son was an avid estate sale hunter here in
: Greenwich, and picked it up a couple of months ago. He had no
: knowledge of the history but based his listing price on where
: some other seafarers had traded recently, he was un aware of the
: rarity of the case type.

: The photo's were horrendous, but the watch was in terrific shape -
: so I pulled the trigger figuring it would be a better deal than
: competing with those on Antiquorum.

: I'll try to get some good macro's going this week - to post on OTD.

: Lanny