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12 December 2012, 11:58 PM
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Real Name: Anastasios
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Barn find ...or rather ...Garage sale find
Another diamond of a find from a Weston Florida garage sale.
Weston is as an affluent Venezuelan/Colombian suburb where English is spoken widely...lol I do not feel like carrying my passport when I go there.....  The good part is... you will not go hungry in a Weston restaurant because you do not speak Spanish !! ...But trust me you will..if you visit a bit further down the road as in Doral or Hialeah...more of a Cuban/Dominican/Haitian story there, where English (?) draws a blank...most of the time  As I do not have anything else to do  I go all over the place in searchof a garage sale and there are plenty. This Serpico y Laino Rolex 1601 datejust came from such a sale. Serpico y Laino founded in 1925 from Leopoldo Serpico and Vincent Laino in Caracas-Venezuela, where they were the exclusive resellers of Patek and Rolex. The company closed its doors in the late 1960's. I am going to fully service this little.. all original diamond of a watch.. with a full "spa" treatment to boot. By the way...inside the buckle where the bracelet slides, there is a hand engraved number 6860 ?...Any idea why or what for ? 
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13 December 2012, 12:00 AM
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Nice!
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13 December 2012, 12:00 AM
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nice find, congrats!
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13 December 2012, 12:06 AM
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Nice find!
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13 December 2012, 12:15 AM
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Love garage sales!
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13 December 2012, 02:02 AM
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Nice catch A. Looks like a nice wearer. M
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13 December 2012, 02:44 AM
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Wooops great find !
Congrats HAGOne
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13 December 2012, 02:58 AM
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Great find
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13 December 2012, 03:00 AM
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the engraving matter was discussed at length in a string about tiffany dialed watches. look it up!
so............what did this beauty set you back? its a personal question, but i love to hear that there are great deals still out there. |
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13 December 2012, 03:04 AM
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Awesome find. I just bought a box of old watches and one of them is a unicorn !
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13 December 2012, 03:15 AM
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That will clean up beautifully!
Congrats on the great find!
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13 December 2012, 04:28 AM
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The were asking 1.000 and after 35 minutes of discussing Greek cooking.. I ended up paying 900 
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13 December 2012, 05:10 AM
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Very nice find! It reminds me of when i found my 1968 timex waferthin(although its not much, it is very sentimental to me) in a bag of junky non working watches at an antique shop. She gave me months of good service until she brokedown last may. Im going to prep her for shipping to NC for restoration after xmas. Enjoy that find of yours. Once she comes back from her spa treatment, shell be as good as new.
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13 December 2012, 06:04 AM
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Great pick up, congrats
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13 December 2012, 06:10 AM
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looks smart now , it will be great when its sorted.
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13 December 2012, 07:06 AM
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This was my first Rolex purchase a few years back...bought from a local jeweler buddy of mine..was a 6.2 million serial...needed a service, but i got it for $600. Needless to say I have yet to find another for the same price...Had the beauty serviced and sold it for triple what I paid..Probably the only watch I genuinely regret flipping, regardless of the money I made off the deal..nice watch!!
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13 December 2012, 08:02 AM
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Great watch with awesome history of a great jeweler that no longer exists. Please do show us pictures of this classic after the spa!
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13 December 2012, 08:15 AM
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Nice find. I keep hoping one day I will
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13 December 2012, 08:46 AM
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love it!!!!
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13 December 2012, 09:16 AM
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YOU my friend ...is...a wizard... My famous compatriot Socrates said... I know...that I know nothing ...ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα After forty years of "doing" Rolex watches - I could not have figured that's how they would have known which bracelet goes with which watch once apart for some reason in the workshop. |
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13 December 2012, 09:16 AM
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Sometimes even the blind squirrel finds a nut.
Now if I can come across a barnfind ;)
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13 December 2012, 09:18 AM
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super cool deal for 900. i would be in love! the custom dial and that amazing bracelet to boot.
i used to spend about 2 months of the year at my grandma's place in West Palm from 1976-1999. i miss the place dearly. anyway, after katrina, i saw a nice Winn Dixie Airking being sold on ebay out of northern Louisiana. i got a great deal on it and its a special watch to the whole family. it reminds me of the days where i would beg my mom for a quarter to play the asteriods arcade game near the door of the store off military trail and okeechobee! |
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13 December 2012, 09:22 AM
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that I had no time to play the asteroids - I was going around like a comet though...
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13 December 2012, 09:25 AM
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Congrats, A!
I remember reading about you coming across one a couple years back in a yard sale. As I recall, the seller wanted very little money and you ended up giving him a healthy/hefty payment since he did not know what he had. Great hear! |
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13 December 2012, 12:21 PM
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3 girls! I have two and I am in perpertual motion and permanent exhaustion. I hope that back in the day you treated yourself to the finer things in life; breakfast at Wuvs and a Super Sampler plate at Taco Viva
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13 December 2012, 12:44 PM
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Nice
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21 January 2013, 11:28 PM
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Well further to this post the watch is back from the factory Rolex Service Center.
They did a great job as always (as they should) for a small price $540 which includes 23% value added tax (sales tax here) or $125 dollars - nothing I can do about that. So for only $415 dollars they serviced and repaired what needed to be done. New crown, new tube, new acrylic crystal, new hands and 3 other internal parts plus spa treatment Actual service amount was $280 dollars plus $135 for the above parts (cheap if you ask me).     
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21 January 2013, 11:32 PM
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very very nice...
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21 January 2013, 11:33 PM
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Wow! Great find and the RSC did a spectacular job! What are your plans for it? Keeping? Selling?
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21 January 2013, 11:54 PM
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Fantastic!
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