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Can Your Client Confirm Never Sent in for Service?
In Response To: Re: Update to listing ()

Maurice:

Can your client confirm that this watch was never sent in for servicing?

Amazing to me to see (a) the tiny little hands, that are far too short for the watch, (b) the perfect paint from edge-to-edge of the dial and (c) the awful lettering / font on dial, along with the waffle markers placed in random positions. All this says "refinished" to me, and I would bet that this was not the dial that was on the watch when it left the factory in the mid-1970s.

And then there's the thought that even if this is an original dial [tiny chance of that, but we can never be certain], this dial and the hands look absolutely awful to my eye, and most collectors would concur.

Expect it to sell for less than half the price of the ones known to be authentic / original / correct.

Jeff

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: Hi David, I need to give you my input on this matter... I have been
: in buisness now for almost forty years and do not have any
: dissatisfied clients or customers. This watch was given to me by
: a good client who purchased the watch in Japan when it was new
: and gave this to me along with many other watches mostly Omega's
: that we have sold on his behalf, many of them were very
: collectible models and all seemed to be 100% . I have no reason
: to doubt your expertise on this dial matter , on the other hand
: my client is a very honest person.
: There seems to be a lot of interest in watch from buyers who
: understand the watch and it will go for fair market value
: whether they believe it is a redone dial or not

: Regards .. Maurice

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