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How about "WHOOPS: eBay"?

In Response To: Today is WHEW day !! ()

Today is WHEW day !! Posted By: SteveW62 <Steve_Waddington@yahoo.com> Date: 4/18/07 11:17 GMT

Hi Guys,

Don't forget today is "What the Heck ?, Ebay Wednesday". We can come up with a better acronym than that !

I will be posting an interesting auction later today ( I am currently at a Customers & can't access eBay .

Anyone can do this, just post a link & tell us what you find interesting about the auction. ( Sorry, but self promoting links will have to be removed )

How about WHOOPS: eBay?
Wednesday's
Horrific,
Odd [or]
Ordinary
Posted
Sale
Here is my "WHOOPS: eBay post for today...

Omega Speedmaster Mark III, 70er Jahre, Neuzustand!:

My main concern is that while I've seen so many "Cushion Cased Mark III's" to think that Omega probably made them this way, I've never before seen a Cushion Cased Mark III with the black dial that's ordinarily seen in the "Volcano" cased version of the Mark III

This appears to be a genuine Mark III dial.

This caseback is very interesting... It appears that a Case Reference number has been hastily crossed out and a new one added with the assistance of a drafting style engraving machine... Of you look at the "6" under high magnification one can easily see that the lower part of the "6" where it loops around and up to meet the left portion of the numeral overlaps the horizonal portion.
Looking at the crossed out Case Reference number I can discern that the number crossed out was either 176.001 or 176.007. Since it would make no sense to cross out 176.007 and then re-engrave it, it would seem most likely that the number is 176.001. The finny thing about the 176.001 is that I've never seen one of them ever anywhere in my travels. I don't know if this model is a "re-tasked prototype, or a put-together cobbled together with scavenged parts, or absolutely original [although I seriously tend to doubt the latter] but I think it qualifies for our WHEW or WHOOPS posts.
The seller has a 100% feedback, so it may be on the up and up. But I won't be bidding on it.
Let's be careful out there!