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Yours looks great. Well the search continues then. Problem with vintage is as the example gets better the price goes up as well. My limit is 4k euro. Hopefully i can find something, but i'll run it by you first :). Thanks again
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Once you're ready to accept that the hunt itself is a huge part of the vintage buying experience you'll feel a lot better for turning down poor quality examples :)
Literally anyone can go into a vintage dealer in Burlington Arcade and pay 30% over the odds for a clean-ish whatever, but they learn nothing in the process other than some bullshit that the salesperson wants to peddle them.
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Agree the dial and hands are nice and honest, unfortunately that case has had a buff too far for me and softened all the lovely contrasting polished and brushed edges. Price isn’t too dissimilar to the other one which also had the OG bracelet though (~ £250).
The ‘81 case was pretty good with a bit more wear on the cuff side commensurate with forty years of wear but the twisted lugs were still way more defined than this later one....the problem with buying vintage is the waiting... you could make a bitsa with old and new but there’s a good chance you won’t bond with it.
Case on mine for reference, also I don’t know if it’s just the angle of photo but the sub dials on the pre 90s seem to have a nicer scallop to them.