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Funny that this has come up because I was going to ask about these today.
As I mentioned a while back I, along with my sisters, are looking to buy our dad a watch for his 60th in April. I know that he's love an old Seamaster and even more so a birth year watch (tall order I know). We've got a reasonably small budget (1000CAD so about 600 GBP at the minute) and I wanted to know if I was barking up the wrong tree looking for a nice late 80's Seamaster at that price. If anyone has some tips of what to look out for and a way of accurately gauging what year something is from it would be amazingly useful!
edited to say: I found this on my ebay trawl today.
Obviously top end of our budget but is this the kind of patina I should expect at this price range?
Second edit:
Am i right to be wary of something that looks like it's been polished to within an inch of it's life like this?
I guess I should keep an eye out then... flea bay or where?