as I look at this auction, it confirms that there are two basic types of watches, for collectors: there are the NOS watches and there are all the others. true NOS watches seem to be a separate sub-market, and the pricing of a true NOS watch will often be far above the best watches that have been worn, even if they are worn very gently.

still, this is one amazing price. I don't know anything about Astorlive; as always, an auction will be more convincing if we can see the identity of the bidders.

so will this auction "pop" toward the end?

Jeff

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: Jeff, Its now at US$8850 with less than a day
: to go. I guess this exceeds most people's
: expectations on this forum although I have
: always been a little sceptical about
: Astorlive auctions. Anyway, at this rate,
: its almost tempting enough for me to let go
: of my Monaco with box and papers that Jorge
: sold to me back in May last year.