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Re: Omega - Presentation vs. "Regular"

: The Omegas with personalization on the back or a company logo or
: something of that sort of thing, does indeed devalue the watch.
: Not in every case, but most cases. I understand how one would feel
: buying a watch that had someone elses name engraved in the back.
: I own one and it doesn't bother me, I can see how it would though.
: A relative passes away, his watch is sold for peanuts, it
: doesn't say
: much about the way the family felt about him. It would seem items
: like that would get better treatment from ones family.
: I've never seen a personized fake watch, I guess they exist.
: Some of the personalizations are fairly easy to get rid of, shallow
: engravings or smalls initials would be fairly simple, for some
: of the larger
: ones, sometimes a good buffing would do away with them. I've got
: two and one was easily removed with buffing, the other doesn't
: bother me as it was a great price on a nice watch.
: jim

So on the two that you own, the only difference is the words on the back of the case? I mean, the movement/dial/etc. is the same? I'm hoping that Omega didn't make cheap versions of their watches to sell as parting gifts ("YOUR LOGO HERE," or something like that).

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