1975 Auction Result

[Tom1675]

I am not sure what happened here but I am very surprised by this result from today. A 1675 MK1 with a damaged dial, incorrect insert, acceptable but not amazing case... yeah it has papers but the result seems quite frothy.

By the way, I'm not throwing shade, its like the house on my street that I think sold for too much. I'm fine with it! Just wondering if I am missing something.

https://jewelry.ha.com/itm/timepiece...ription-071515

[Dan S]

You had me thinking that there was a new reference I hadn't heard of ... 1975? :-)

I can't see the price or high-res images without registering for the site.

[Kingface66]

Tom, what did the hammer drop at? Can't see it unless we're signed in

[Tom1675]

Originally Posted by Dan S

You had me thinking that there was a new reference I hadn't heard of ... 1975? :-)

I can't see the price or high-res images without registering for the site.

Originally Posted by Kingface66

Tom, what did the hammer drop at? Can't see it unless we're signed in

Sorry guys! I've fixed the typo and the hammer was $27.5K with premium.

[indianmachine]

Does seem a bit high

[Dan S]

It happens. I got a little carried away in an auction recently and had some remorse afterwards.

Fortunately it was on Yahoo! Japan and the final price was only about 10% of the price for the OP watch.

[alwayshere]

why do you say the dial is damaged? it has some patina but nothing glaringly bad.

[Dan S]

Originally Posted by alwayshere

why do you say the dial is damaged? it has some patina but nothing glaringly bad.

I couldn't see it either, but I'm only looking at low-res images.

[1665fan]

27.5 for that is fishy when similar ones on eBay can’t 15-16k………

[Tom1675]

Can't really upload a better image than what's in the link but the dial is borderline
"starry night" -its got lots of acne. Maybe someone with a heritage login will concur.

[Mark020]

[Mark020]

Dial is not bad. USD 27.5k incl fee was hammer.

[Tom1675]

Thanks Mark! That one shows it better. The dial is not great and under even more magnification it gets worse...

[southtexas]

I participated in that auction yesterday (prices were pretty crazy, I didn’t get anything). I was surprised that went for $22,000 also.

Now for a twist- I live in a city of about 300,000 people. I noticed in the descriptions that several of the watches in that auction came from an estate in my home town, including but not limited to: 2 DRSDs, the 666, a 16613, some Omegas, a gold Rolex 8171 padellone, and the all-gold 6542 with original minty Bakelite. They’re still out there.


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[1665fan]

Originally Posted by southtexas

I participated in that auction yesterday. I was surprised that went for $22,000 also.

Now for a twist- I live in a city of about 300,000 people. I noticed that several of the watches in that auction came from an estate in my home town, including but not limited to: 2 DRSDs, the 666, a 16613, some Omegas, a gold Rolex 8171 padellone, and the all-gold 6542 with original minty Bakelite. They’re still out there.


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Yea a minty Bakelite…..holy shiiiii……

[Tom1675]

Originally Posted by southtexas

I participated in that auction yesterday (prices were pretty crazy, I didn’t get anything). I was surprised that went for $22,000 also.

Now for a twist- I live in a city of about 300,000 people. I noticed in the descriptions that several of the watches in that auction came from an estate in my home town, including but not limited to: 2 DRSDs, the 666, a 16613, some Omegas, a gold Rolex 8171 padellone, and the all-gold 6542 with original minty Bakelite. They’re still out there.


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Woah! Your town has got to be the per capita high concentration of vintage Rolexes for the US. And yes the 6542 was great. The 5513 underlines were very nice and imho were well bought. A bit high sure but their condition was exceptional.